Keynote and Plenary Sessions
Keynote Presentations
 Dan North Industry Legend &, Author Dan North & Associates |
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Software, Faster: Accelerating Agile Delivery
Are katas the best way to learn a new language? Is manual testing a waste of time? Is copy-and-paste always evil? Is the customer always right? In this talk Dan introduces the idea of delivery patterns - patterns of effective behaviour in delivery teams - and describes some of the more unusual but effective patterns he's been collecting. These are not patterns for beginners, but then again, Dan argues that patterns aren't for beginners anyway. |
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 Scott Wiltamuth Vice President Amazon Web Services Amazon |
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Lessons Learned Over a Decade of Micro-service Deployments |
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 Wayne Heller Sr. Director Business Architecture Nordstrom |
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From IT to Business Technology: Enterprise Transformation of a Traditional Business
Wayne will talk about the Nordstrom Agile transformation journey "The Tech Revolution" and how they have enabled Senior Leadership and Teams to use Scrum/Lean techniques like Enterprise Portfolio Planning, Kanban Stand-ups, Sprints, Tribes and DevOps to address this change in a rapidly changing business landscape. |
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 Aaron Bjork Principal Group Program Manager Microsoft |
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Scaling Agile and DevOps
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Plenary Presentations
 Kevin Behr CTO, HedgeServ Co-Author "The Phoenix Project" |
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Systems, Complexity, and Taking on Myths and Legends around Culture
Business and technology executives are typically trained via ra reductionism style rubric. Break the relevant topics in to their smallest pieces and develop better understanding of them in isolation. I posit that the core conditions for our problems is not that technical knowledge is lacking but that our understanding of complex adaptive systems in business management is nearly non-existent. This may seem trivial until one sees that the entire business organization forms a complex adaptive system and that machine based metaphors for command and control simply won't work - or if they do they often come with disastrous consequences and trade-offs we never could have anticipated. In this talk we will examine just how and why philosophical movements like Agile and DevOps may have emerged. But more specifically why they are inadequate to solve today's or tomorrow's organizational problems. Finally I will illustrate the growing need to cultivate improved managerial sense-making in order to emerge new methods and models through variation of system constraints based on environmental (physical) context and system goals (metaphysical). Additionally, if audience participation is deemed adequate I will unveil several weaponized feline memes. |
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 Sarah Bird CEO, Moz  Mark Schliemann VP Technical Operations, Moz |
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Fireside Chat: Scaling from the Cloud to In-House: The Business and Technical Cases
Moz began to explore alternatives to relying solely on the public cloud. Ultimately, Moz decided on a private and public cloud strategy that increased our gross profit margin from 63% to 79% over the course of 12 months. In addition to the cost savings, the business actually increased its stability, flexibility and security. There were so many questions in the beginning. Where should we go? How should we do it? Do we have the right people? What technologies should we select? How do we support it? What will we lose? What will we gain? How long will it take? How much will we save? Come and learn how Moz transformed its business by bucking the public cloud trend. Interviewed by:
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