The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Simmons Lough, IT Specialist, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled "If We Can Do It, You Can Do It!: DevOps Transformation at the US Patent and Trademark Office." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. USPTO at a glance I'm a tech lead on a system at USPTO called FPNG. USPTO stands for the ‘United States Patent and Trademark … [Read more...]
Mastering Outages with Incident Command for DevOps: Learning from the Fire Department
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Brent Chapman, Principal at Great Circle Associates, titled "Mastering Outages with Incident Command for DevOps: Learning from the Fire Department." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. A little bit about my background I'm a system's sysadmin, networking, programmer, architect, etc. I’ve been in Silicon Valley for about 30 years, and worked at … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing Technology Governance at Target
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dan Cundiff (Principal Engineer,) Levi Geinert (Director of Engineering,) and Lucas Rettig (Principal Product Owner) at Target, titled "Crowdsourcing Technology Governance." Slides visuals by Nicole Forsythe (@nicolibrarian on Twitter.) You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. Levi Geinert A Little Bit About Me. I'm a director of engineering in … [Read more...]
Understanding Job Burnout
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dr. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the University of California (Berkeley,) titled "Understanding Job Burnout." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. About 20 years ago, some colleagues and I were called by Sweden. They said, "We're having this crisis in some of our workplaces. Please come over and help us … [Read more...]
How Finding & Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dr. Steve Spear, Principal, HVE LLC, titled "Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. I'm going to make a case for three key points. Learning is good. Not surprising coming from a guy at MIT wearing a bow tie and glasses. But what I mean more … [Read more...]
Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist at AWS, titled "Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. I am an enterprise strategist at AWS which means I'm part of a small team of ex-CIOs and CTO’s of large enterprises, whose job it is to talk to our customers (other large enterprises) who are in the midst of a … [Read more...]
Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, titled "Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. For my entire career, I've been on this journey to help transform how software is built. I spent the first ten years of that journey, as a developer, writing a ton of code. I thought the … [Read more...]
Fireside Chat with Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley
The following is an excerpt from a presentation originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. You can also watch the video of the presentation. What I’ve been working on recently is the question, 'how do we get business leadership on board?' And here's what I think the problem statement is: "Great CEO's and board directors know how to run great companies. They're fearless about insisting on process excellence — whether it be the sales pipeline forecasts, … [Read more...]
What Enterprise IT Can Learn From a Startup’s Journey
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Naomi Lurie, Director of Product, and Laksh Ranganathan, Senior Solutions Consultant at Tasktop, titled “What Enterprise IT Can Learn From a Startup’s Journey.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Naomi Lurie A little bit about us We're from Tasktop. We’re not strictly a startup anymore, rather we’re a small company. We were founded in 2007 in … [Read more...]
Flow: Taking Agile Forward – Fin Goulding
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Fin Goulding, International CIO at Aviva, titled “Flow: Taking Agile Forward.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. I'm Fin Goulding, International CIO at Aviva. Our organization is quite large, we’ve got thousands of customers, thousands of engineers, thousands of systems. We've got a structure whereby we've got CIOs across different regions, and … [Read more...]
