This presentation was used to start a conversation with the Atlanta DevOps community around patterns for introducing DevOps in large organizations. During the session, I presented findings from coaches around the US.
This document discusses DevOps frameworks and principles. It outlines that as customer needs have become more complex, development teams have evolved their practices to be more flexible and agile. This has blurred the lines between traditional development and operations teams. DevOps aims to make organizations more efficient by integrating tools, processes, and guidelines. It provides a flexible environment that facilitates success. To implement DevOps successfully, organizations should perform due diligence, define processes tailored to their needs, select appropriate tools, establish KPIs, and provide best practices and examples.
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This is a short tutorial by Edureka on DevOps vs Agile, which will help you understand the fundamental difference between DevOps and Agile software development strategies.
BizDevOps – Delivering Business Value Quickly at ScaleQASymphony
BIZDEVOPS – DELIVERING BUSINESS VALUE QUICKLY AT SCALE
65+% of surveyed organizations are currently on the path to switch to DevOps or have already implemented the process, and the benefits of a properly implemented DevOps program are clear – quicker time to customer value, better alignment between businesses and customers, and a better ability to respond to customer input. However, when it comes to DevOps adoption, many teams rush to focus on one specific issue within one area when they would actually benefit more from aligning business, development, testing, and operations up front. The five major problems in DevOps adoption include:
Lack of Test Automation Coverage
Lack of Visibility into Testing
Maintaining Various Test Versions and Aligning Tests with Versions of Source Code
Maintaining a Single Source of Truth in the Testing Process
Understanding Where Business Value Currently is in the “BizDevOps” Pipeline
After helping hundreds of customers in their DevOps journeys, these three industry experts will cover these major problems, as well as innovative strategies to overcome them:
Bobby Smith – Director of R&D, QAS Labs
Brandon Cipe – VP DevOps, cPrime
Kevin Dunne – VP Business Development, QASymphony
Tune in to learn more about the state of the industry, the direction that DevOps adoption is moving toward, and what we like to call “BizDevOps”. You won’t want to miss this session!
Quality Center has been the most widely adopted test management solution in the market to date, but times are changing with the completed acquisition by Micro Focus. Unfortunately, Micro Focus’ published 4-year plan focuses on profits and cost cutting, meaning a shift away from innovation and customer service.
Join us to learn how QASymphony champions the modern tester, as we highlight our 3-year strategic plan. We’ll highlight customers who have successful made the switch from Quality Center to qTest and share our experience migrating dozens of customers from HP Quality Center, following best practices for making a smooth transition into the next generation of test management.
A Quick Intro to Agile, DevOps & Lean Development in the EnterpriseTasktop
Agile, DevOps and Lean are common approaches to modern software delivery. But how are they actually being used in large enterprise? What do you need to consider to make your transformation successful? Visit www.tasktop.com for more information.
Scaling Agile: SAFe with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server InCycle Software
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a proven framework for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale. Implementing Agile, for example SCRUM, for 1 team is already a significant challenge but scaling Agile to multiple teams, across the enterprise can be particularly daunting. Seeking business agility, SAFe aims to provide a solution for scaling agile. This session is designed those who wish to better understand the purpose and foundations of the framework as well as the business benefits that it can deliver. Finally, As a Microsoft ALM Partner with certified SAFe consultants, InCycle will present how Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) can be used to support the framework.
Diving into the World of Test Automation The Approach and the TechnologiesQASymphony
This presentation was originally given at Quality Jam London. Elise covered test automation and the progression for test automation that you might encounter. The session agenda included:
The stages of the test team
Why are we automating?
What are we automating?
How are we automating?
What languages should we use?
What frameworks and libraries should we use?
Open source or proprietary?
Learn more at www.qualityjam.com
DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle. It leads to 66% faster realization of business value and higher IT performance based on analyzing over 27,000 survey responses. Key aspects of DevOps include establishing a collaborative culture, automating processes, adopting lean principles, using metrics to measure performance, and promoting sharing of knowledge.
The document discusses the transformation of an R&D organization from releasing 8 products every 18-24 months to releasing 15 products with continuous integration and deployment. It outlines the challenges of increasing speed, quality and scale through continuous automation in a DevOps pipeline. The organization aims to test early, fail early and fix early through end-to-end business flow testing under real-life conditions to provide visibility and insights.
This document discusses using Jira Portfolio for agile planning and management. It describes how the Product Owner can use Portfolio to plan at the program level by ranking epics and branches of work. It also describes how the Project Manager can use Portfolio to track multiple teams' progress, dependencies, and capacity. Finally, it outlines some current limitations of Portfolio and how SAFe uses it for program execution and planning at scale.
The increasing adoption of DevOps principles has led to greater integration between software development (both application and software engineering) and IT operations (both systems administration and infrastructure). In this online seminar, we will explore the DevOps approaches
How do you address an organisations’ “quality problem”? Mark will be talking about his role as Head of Quality at Cambridge Assessment and exploring how he is approaching getting the answers to that very question.
We provide a brief introduction to DevOps, as well as a more practical analysis on how DevOps can be implemented efficiently. We discuss the genealogy of DevOps: how it came about, what it has to do with Agile, why it has gained such attention and support, and the benefits it can provide. We touch upon the topic of how DevOps works in practice. During a live demo, we showcase how codeBeamer ALM supports the implementation of the DevOps approach.
This ITIL® Release, Control and Validation will enables you to master the key ITIL processes needed to properly plan for service transitions; assess changes; build, test and deploy releases
QASymphony Atlanta Customer User Group Fall 2017QASymphony
Thanks to all who came out and were part of our first customer user group! All our expectations for the day were exceeded and we hope you feel the same way.
If you weren't able to make it, here's what you missed:
Judy Chung, Product Manager, gave a summary of recent and upcoming features (site level fields, new UI of TestPad) as well as a sneak preview of our newest product (codename: Automation Hub).
Elise Carmichael, VP of Quality, demo-ed several best practice topics, ranging from organizing your qTest repository to reviewing the different automation integration options.
Erika Chestnut, Director of QA at Sterling Talent Solutions, shared her story as a QASymphony customer who recently replaced HP Quality Center with qTest and provided insight into leading change management across her organization.
DevOps aims to integrate development and operations teams to shorten the development cycle. It builds on principles from Agile development which emphasize continuous delivery of working software and frequent feedback loops between teams. DevOps seeks to further reduce feedback times from months or weeks to hours or minutes by breaking down barriers between functions and having teams take full responsibility for software delivery from development to production support.
Building Better Collaboration Between Development and Testing in a DevOps WorldQASymphony
This document discusses collaboration between development and testing teams in DevOps. It notes that most organizations now practice agile development and many are adopting DevOps. When testing is integrated into frequent code deployments, it allows for much higher performance. The document advocates for promoting collaboration across teams through practices like clarifying requirements upfront, adopting test-first approaches using behavior-driven development, and integrating testing feedback directly into builds for continuous feedback. It discusses capabilities needed like visibility into testing, consolidated dashboards, and integration with version control systems. The goal is to move testing earlier in the process and continuously deliver high quality software through better collaboration.
Quality Jam 2017: Jesse Reed & Kyle McMeekin "Test Case Management & Explorat...QASymphony
Jesse Reed, QA Director at Questar, and Kyle McMeekin discuss how Questar made the switch to qTest and the key factors you should consider in test case management and exploratory testing.
Agile without DevOps is incomplete as DevOps helps align development and operations teams to improve customer experiences and respond faster to business needs. DevOps utilizes automation, collaboration between teams, and continuous delivery to support Agile principles like iterative delivery and adapting to change. Specifically, DevOps automates testing, deployment, monitoring and other processes to enable Agile teams to release working software more frequently with high quality and reliability.
XP teams try to keep systems fully integrated at all times, and shorten the feedback cycle to minutes and hours instead of weeks or months. The sooner you know, the sooner you can adapt.
Watch our record for the webinar "Continuous Integration" to explore how Azure DevOps helps us in achieving continuous feedback using continuous integration.
DevOps drives continuous innovation and synergy to leverage profit cycles with paradigm disrupting value propositions that enable executive promotions.
Our journey from manual deployment on data centerAgileSparks
The document discusses Pitney Bowes' journey from manual deployment on data centers to container-based continuous delivery on AWS. It outlines how they automated their CI/CD pipeline using infrastructure as code and containerization to improve developer productivity, elasticity, and reproducibility. Their solution uses Jenkins as the central pipeline orchestrator to discover, build, test, and deploy code changes. This has helped accelerate development and delivery while enabling a DevOps culture.
Moving QA from Reactive to Proactive with qTestQASymphony
This document discusses moving quality assurance from a reactive to a proactive approach using qTest. It outlines some of the challenges with the current reactive approach, such as crashes occurring and teams blaming the QA team. It then discusses how to take a more proactive approach by efficiently creating and organizing tests, monitoring tests, reusing tests and parameters, consolidating results, and defining test scenarios before coding using behavior driven development. The key recommendations are to record manual and exploratory tests, use a test management system that promotes reuse, radiate test results to development systems, build combined testing dashboards, and use BDD to ensure early test planning.
Agile Israel 2017 bugs zero by Arlo BelsheeAgileSparks
The document is a slide deck presentation by Arlo Belshee on preventing bugs by not creating them in the first place. The presentation discusses why various roles in software development care about bugs and technical debt. It then covers actions that can cause bugs, contexts that turn those actions into bugs, and situations that spread bugginess. The remainder of the presentation provides strategies for preventing bugs through habits like refactoring code for readability, practicing context sensitivity, addressing what developers don't know, and minimizing risks from hurrying, accepting errors, repeating mistakes, and high risk changes.
Harmonic's Journey Scaled-Agile In The New Generation of Cable OS v4AgileSparks
Harmonic's Journey - Scaled-Agile in the new generation of CableOSTM
Harmonic Inc. is moving from a traditional hardware-based platform to a software solution running on commercial off-the-shelf servers and custom Harmonic hardware. This large, distributed project involved 180 engineers across multiple sites. To aid collaboration, Harmonic implemented a Scaled Agile framework with cross-functional Scrum teams in an Agile Release Train. Key improvements included establishing 2-week sprints, clear product backlogs, and PI planning sessions to improve synchronization across teams. After announcing its new CableOS product, Harmonic continued refining its processes to focus on quality and meet milestones for CableOS deployment.
This document proposes a simple tool chain to facilitate release and deployment processes across development and operations teams. The tool chain uses freely available tools like source code management, a continuous integration system, a package repository, and configuration management to define dependencies, build packages, control promotions, and deploy updates. Each role is given self-service access while maintaining separation of duties through role-based permissions and auditability of all changes.
The document discusses finding people to make a big impact as part of a team with support behind them. It notes that being small does not mean being weak, and that being single refers to personal lifestyle rather than DevOps. It encourages opportunities everywhere and automating everything rather than seeing tasks as tedious. It emphasizes acting before everything is ready and taking chances that come with gaps and changes. The document promotes experimenting beyond expectations and challenging beliefs to get a broader perspective.
Diving into the World of Test Automation The Approach and the TechnologiesQASymphony
This presentation was originally given at Quality Jam London. Elise covered test automation and the progression for test automation that you might encounter. The session agenda included:
The stages of the test team
Why are we automating?
What are we automating?
How are we automating?
What languages should we use?
What frameworks and libraries should we use?
Open source or proprietary?
Learn more at www.qualityjam.com
DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle. It leads to 66% faster realization of business value and higher IT performance based on analyzing over 27,000 survey responses. Key aspects of DevOps include establishing a collaborative culture, automating processes, adopting lean principles, using metrics to measure performance, and promoting sharing of knowledge.
The document discusses the transformation of an R&D organization from releasing 8 products every 18-24 months to releasing 15 products with continuous integration and deployment. It outlines the challenges of increasing speed, quality and scale through continuous automation in a DevOps pipeline. The organization aims to test early, fail early and fix early through end-to-end business flow testing under real-life conditions to provide visibility and insights.
This document discusses using Jira Portfolio for agile planning and management. It describes how the Product Owner can use Portfolio to plan at the program level by ranking epics and branches of work. It also describes how the Project Manager can use Portfolio to track multiple teams' progress, dependencies, and capacity. Finally, it outlines some current limitations of Portfolio and how SAFe uses it for program execution and planning at scale.
The increasing adoption of DevOps principles has led to greater integration between software development (both application and software engineering) and IT operations (both systems administration and infrastructure). In this online seminar, we will explore the DevOps approaches
How do you address an organisations’ “quality problem”? Mark will be talking about his role as Head of Quality at Cambridge Assessment and exploring how he is approaching getting the answers to that very question.
We provide a brief introduction to DevOps, as well as a more practical analysis on how DevOps can be implemented efficiently. We discuss the genealogy of DevOps: how it came about, what it has to do with Agile, why it has gained such attention and support, and the benefits it can provide. We touch upon the topic of how DevOps works in practice. During a live demo, we showcase how codeBeamer ALM supports the implementation of the DevOps approach.
This ITIL® Release, Control and Validation will enables you to master the key ITIL processes needed to properly plan for service transitions; assess changes; build, test and deploy releases
QASymphony Atlanta Customer User Group Fall 2017QASymphony
Thanks to all who came out and were part of our first customer user group! All our expectations for the day were exceeded and we hope you feel the same way.
If you weren't able to make it, here's what you missed:
Judy Chung, Product Manager, gave a summary of recent and upcoming features (site level fields, new UI of TestPad) as well as a sneak preview of our newest product (codename: Automation Hub).
Elise Carmichael, VP of Quality, demo-ed several best practice topics, ranging from organizing your qTest repository to reviewing the different automation integration options.
Erika Chestnut, Director of QA at Sterling Talent Solutions, shared her story as a QASymphony customer who recently replaced HP Quality Center with qTest and provided insight into leading change management across her organization.
DevOps aims to integrate development and operations teams to shorten the development cycle. It builds on principles from Agile development which emphasize continuous delivery of working software and frequent feedback loops between teams. DevOps seeks to further reduce feedback times from months or weeks to hours or minutes by breaking down barriers between functions and having teams take full responsibility for software delivery from development to production support.
Building Better Collaboration Between Development and Testing in a DevOps WorldQASymphony
This document discusses collaboration between development and testing teams in DevOps. It notes that most organizations now practice agile development and many are adopting DevOps. When testing is integrated into frequent code deployments, it allows for much higher performance. The document advocates for promoting collaboration across teams through practices like clarifying requirements upfront, adopting test-first approaches using behavior-driven development, and integrating testing feedback directly into builds for continuous feedback. It discusses capabilities needed like visibility into testing, consolidated dashboards, and integration with version control systems. The goal is to move testing earlier in the process and continuously deliver high quality software through better collaboration.
Quality Jam 2017: Jesse Reed & Kyle McMeekin "Test Case Management & Explorat...QASymphony
Jesse Reed, QA Director at Questar, and Kyle McMeekin discuss how Questar made the switch to qTest and the key factors you should consider in test case management and exploratory testing.
Agile without DevOps is incomplete as DevOps helps align development and operations teams to improve customer experiences and respond faster to business needs. DevOps utilizes automation, collaboration between teams, and continuous delivery to support Agile principles like iterative delivery and adapting to change. Specifically, DevOps automates testing, deployment, monitoring and other processes to enable Agile teams to release working software more frequently with high quality and reliability.
XP teams try to keep systems fully integrated at all times, and shorten the feedback cycle to minutes and hours instead of weeks or months. The sooner you know, the sooner you can adapt.
Watch our record for the webinar "Continuous Integration" to explore how Azure DevOps helps us in achieving continuous feedback using continuous integration.
DevOps drives continuous innovation and synergy to leverage profit cycles with paradigm disrupting value propositions that enable executive promotions.
Our journey from manual deployment on data centerAgileSparks
The document discusses Pitney Bowes' journey from manual deployment on data centers to container-based continuous delivery on AWS. It outlines how they automated their CI/CD pipeline using infrastructure as code and containerization to improve developer productivity, elasticity, and reproducibility. Their solution uses Jenkins as the central pipeline orchestrator to discover, build, test, and deploy code changes. This has helped accelerate development and delivery while enabling a DevOps culture.
Moving QA from Reactive to Proactive with qTestQASymphony
This document discusses moving quality assurance from a reactive to a proactive approach using qTest. It outlines some of the challenges with the current reactive approach, such as crashes occurring and teams blaming the QA team. It then discusses how to take a more proactive approach by efficiently creating and organizing tests, monitoring tests, reusing tests and parameters, consolidating results, and defining test scenarios before coding using behavior driven development. The key recommendations are to record manual and exploratory tests, use a test management system that promotes reuse, radiate test results to development systems, build combined testing dashboards, and use BDD to ensure early test planning.
Agile Israel 2017 bugs zero by Arlo BelsheeAgileSparks
The document is a slide deck presentation by Arlo Belshee on preventing bugs by not creating them in the first place. The presentation discusses why various roles in software development care about bugs and technical debt. It then covers actions that can cause bugs, contexts that turn those actions into bugs, and situations that spread bugginess. The remainder of the presentation provides strategies for preventing bugs through habits like refactoring code for readability, practicing context sensitivity, addressing what developers don't know, and minimizing risks from hurrying, accepting errors, repeating mistakes, and high risk changes.
Harmonic's Journey Scaled-Agile In The New Generation of Cable OS v4AgileSparks
Harmonic's Journey - Scaled-Agile in the new generation of CableOSTM
Harmonic Inc. is moving from a traditional hardware-based platform to a software solution running on commercial off-the-shelf servers and custom Harmonic hardware. This large, distributed project involved 180 engineers across multiple sites. To aid collaboration, Harmonic implemented a Scaled Agile framework with cross-functional Scrum teams in an Agile Release Train. Key improvements included establishing 2-week sprints, clear product backlogs, and PI planning sessions to improve synchronization across teams. After announcing its new CableOS product, Harmonic continued refining its processes to focus on quality and meet milestones for CableOS deployment.
This document proposes a simple tool chain to facilitate release and deployment processes across development and operations teams. The tool chain uses freely available tools like source code management, a continuous integration system, a package repository, and configuration management to define dependencies, build packages, control promotions, and deploy updates. Each role is given self-service access while maintaining separation of duties through role-based permissions and auditability of all changes.
The document discusses finding people to make a big impact as part of a team with support behind them. It notes that being small does not mean being weak, and that being single refers to personal lifestyle rather than DevOps. It encourages opportunities everywhere and automating everything rather than seeing tasks as tedious. It emphasizes acting before everything is ready and taking chances that come with gaps and changes. The document promotes experimenting beyond expectations and challenging beliefs to get a broader perspective.
This document outlines 10 key areas to focus on when starting a DevOps journey: 1) virtualization, 2) operating systems, 3) databases, 4) cloud computing, 5) monitoring and alerting, 6) configuration management, 7) continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), 8) log management, 9) web/application servers, and 10) project management tools. Each area provides a brief definition and recommendations for tools to learn, such as virtualization platforms like VMware, configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet, and project management tools like Confluence. The document aims to help readers assess their readiness and identify additional skills needed to begin their DevOps journey.
WinOps Conf 2015 - Steve Thair - Why we need a DevOps on Windows ConferenceWinOps Conf
In this opening keynote Steve Thair (@TheOpsMgr) from DevOpsGuys talks about why we need a DevOps on Windows conference, what DevOps is, "Enterprise DevOps", Outsourcing and lots of other stuff.
What skills and personality do you need for a career in DevOps?Puppet
We talked to dozens of engineers, managers and recruiters whose jobs (or the jobs they're hiring for) emphasize DevOps practices to see what insights they have to share. In this SlideShare you'll find quotes from them detailing the skills they think will help you be successful.
For all their advice and insights, get the full ebook at https://puppet.com/devops-and-you.
What Big Data Folks Need to Know About DevOpsMatt Ray
The document discusses DevOps and how it relates to big data. It defines DevOps as combining tools and culture to enable automation, infrastructure as code, and collaboration between developers and system administrators. It promotes principles like idempotence, data-driven configuration, sane defaults, and hackability. The document argues that an API-driven approach with Chef can help implement DevOps practices for big data environments.
DOES16 San Francisco - Will Evans & Mark Landy - The Need for Speed: Enabling...Gene Kim
The Need for Speed: Enabling DevOps through Enterprise Architecture
Mark Landy, VP, Enterprise Architecture, Johnson & Johnson
William Evans, Chief Design Officer, PraxisFlow
Have you ever wished you worked for a unicorn like Netflix or Amazon? Have your colleagues ever told you, “DevOps just won’t work here!” Many people hold the belief that DevOps is not achievable in distributed product teams, large enterprises, or highly regulated industries. This session is for the haters.
This is the story of a DevOps transformation inside the world’s largest healthcare company: how a highly siloed, matrixed IT organization is using enterprise architecture to leverage challenges and identify constraints, run experiments, and ultimately evolve into a highly resilient, customer-centric delivery organization that continuously re-aligns IT with business intent to continuously deliver value to the customer.
What began as a need for speed, led to experimenting with enterprise architecture to find ways to decrease lead-time across all of IT (versus optimizing specific functions or products) and focus on throughput. Through these experiments, the enterprise architecture group uncovered guiding principles that encourage the natural adoption of DevOps rather than the common, mega-enterprise practice of mandating the a top-down Framework or big-bang installing the hot new transformation of the year methodology (aka Bi-Model from Gartner).
Ultimately, horses (enterprise IT organizations (aka Clydesdales)) must learn the 3 Ways of unicorns or face extinction, but the key to the horse’s journey will be the most unlikely of guides: enterprise architecture.
DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
The History of DevOps (and what you need to do about it)dev2ops
The document discusses the history and evolution of DevOps. It traces the origins of DevOps back to 2007 when the terms "DevOps" and "Agile Infrastructure" first emerged. It then summarizes the rise in DevOps conferences and communities from 2009 onward. The document also outlines key findings that DevOps adopters see significantly faster lead times, higher deployment frequencies, better change success rates, and faster recovery times compared to non-adopters. Additionally, DevOps teams are more likely to exceed goals for profitability, market share and productivity. The document argues that organizations should focus on fast feedback loops, continuous improvement and adopting an "Improvement System" like DevOps Kaizen in order to see these benefits as a
Development Operations (DevOps) is a management culture that improves the IT service delivery agility on the basis of Communication, Collaboration & Integration.
Scrum Bangalore 14th MeetUp 05 September 2015 - Scaling Agile - Saikat Das - ...Scrum Bangalore
This document summarizes an approach to scaling Agile in a mid-size enterprise eCommerce company. It discusses the motivation to scale Agile, provides an overview of common scaling frameworks, and describes the company's journey to scaling Agile across multiple teams and locations. Key aspects of the scaling model include establishing a cadence of sprints and releases, implementing feature-driven teams, adopting Scrum of Scrums, and establishing communities of practice. Outcomes of scaling included improved team performance, increased customer satisfaction, reduced delivery cycle times, and lower costs. Challenges included coordinating distributed teams and maintaining synchronization across teams.
A common practice among teams in IT companies adopting the latest trends, Agile can be scaled to enterprise level once applied properly. In this Innovation Session, Maduri Senadheera from the Project Management team talks about the Agile mindset, the need for scaling and the benefits of a Scaled Agile Framework for better aligning business processes.
This document discusses applying agile methods to product development beyond just software. It argues that agile can accelerate tangible product development by nesting sprints within milestone frameworks and establishing high-performance cross-functional teams. However, functional managers often resist ceding control and collaboration, posing the biggest challenge to success. Case studies show that focusing agile adoption on planning, demos, and facilitation can lead to improved schedule adherence, decision-making, and overall project accuracy despite higher prototyping costs.
Agile IT Operatinos - Getting to Daily ReleasesLeadingAgile
Getting to Daily Releases with Agile IT Operations. Devin Hedge, Enterprise Transformation Consultant talks to a group at Triagile about the Six Key Areas to focus on when attempting to transform IT Operations with Lean and Agile principles. The talk covers Service Engineering, IT Operations, and the Tier 1 Support/NOC organizations. Kanban, Service Management (ITSM), and what it means to have a DevOps orientation.
DevOps, SAFe and critical information bearers: A practical approach for plann...Bosnia Agile
A lot of enterprises have successfully adopted agile practices and are now challenged by the questions: How do we scale it? How will we know what is going on in development, product management and deployment? How do we know that we develop according to business priorities? How do we make the quicker development cycles lead to faster market response and more frequent releases? To answer these some companies have turned to a DevOps approach and use concepts like the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Join us in this session to look at the critical information bearers in such a setup and how information from business planning, portfolio management, program management and release planning are connected.
Agile practices continue to improve as organizations move forward with adoption and adaption. However, as they move forward, they often run into daunting challenges—coordinating projects with highly complex requirements and interdependencies; navigating highly political environments; and finding ways to fund, report, and integrate agile project work into existing organizational processes. Jamie Mades has found that the Lean Agile Portfolio bridges these gaps, applying lean product development flow principles to identify high-value initiatives and speed completion of work. It reduces risk and uncertainty using agile development practices to realize those initiatives. Jamie discusses how to break down silos across all areas, reduce the divide between agile practices and senior executive requirements, and improve collaboration. Using a $500M portfolio at a Fortune 100 company as an example, he reviews how they seamlessly integrated agile planning into the annual funding cycle and coordinated highly complex work across the organization. Join Jamie to learn where you need to drive changes and where you can adapt agile practices to meet organizational needs.
This document provides an overview of an Agile summit held by the Michigan Digital Government. It introduces Agile concepts and frameworks like Scrum. Key benefits of Agile cited include accelerated time to market, improved ability to manage changing priorities, and enhanced software quality. The summit objectives were to introduce Agile, discuss how it differs from traditional approaches, consider its application in the public sector, and allow for discussion. Agile principles like early delivery of working software, self-organizing teams, and responding to change are outlined. The document also discusses scaling Agile to multiple teams, risks, and contracting approaches to support Agile projects.
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By Paul Holway.
Regardless of how you feel about felines, dead cats stink. What also stinks is what is happening to agile development practices. What started as a movement to increase quality and usefulness of code written, has been professionalized into certificates and ceremonies that are only marginally helping the process. Instead of blaming political and organizational forces, this humorous and irreverent talk focuses on what team members can do to overcome these corporate obstacles and to get to the spirit of agile through a focus on architectural innovation and personal improvement. Attendees should expect to laugh, to learn from the experience of implementing dozens of real world enterprise agile teams, and to come out with proven new techniques to try to bring more satisfaction to how they do their work and to bring the focus of agile back to software development.
Scaling your agile implementation across multiple teams in large organizations is always a challenge.
In this webinar, Ragia and Asmaa shared their experiences about:
- Why scaling?
- Different scaling frameworks?
- SAFe configurations
- SAFe pros & cons
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The Five Phases of Agile Maturity (Part 2): Phase 3 and 4Cprime
The journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. What do you need to know? What challenges might you face? Which tools will best meet your organization where it's at?
Explore what you should expect to see across the five phases of Agile maturity. In part 2 of this series, we will focus on Phase 3 and 4. We'll share valuable advice about negotiating the turns, avoiding roadblocks, and enjoying the ride in your agile maturity journey. Plus, we’ll talk about the optimal tools to support you—enterprise product management software, like Atlassian Jira Align.
Learn:
- Common maturity elements of Phase 3 of agile maturity (The Scaling Agile Organization) and Phase 4 of agile maturity (The Agile Enterprise)
- Challenges you may face in your agile maturity journey and how to overcome them
- How Jira Align’s features and functionality can support scaling
The document discusses backlog grooming, which is the practice of refining high-level requirements in the product backlog to provide more detail and make them ready for development. Key points:
- Backlog grooming helps reduce rework, improves productivity and visibility of progress.
- The process involves prioritizing, sizing, labeling, estimating and preparing requirements/user stories for sprints. Coarse-grained requirements are broken into fine-grained user stories.
- Best practices include ongoing grooming by the product owner with input from customers and developers, prioritizing based on factors like business value and feedback urgency.
Lean-agile management at Finnish Broadcasting Company YleMirette Kangas
Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has taken Agile Portfolio Management into use at web and mobile development. Agile Portfolio Management is perceived to be one of the ways to improve efficiency of operations. Transparency replaces need for control. Agile Portfolio Management creates tight learning loop from items under development and launch to user feedback.
The document discusses scaling agile practices in large enterprises. It begins by outlining the origins of agile in 2001 as an alternative to documentation-heavy processes. It then discusses challenges that enterprises face in scaling agile, including process/documentation cultures, underestimating planning efforts, and complex infrastructure. The document proposes a 3-step approach: setting up an agile implementation team, having IT management lead by example, and continuously solving impediments. It recommends using tools like JIRA and SAFe to plan at the portfolio, program, and team levels to help scale agile practices across large organizations.
Waterfall and agile processes have been applied to software development for many years. However, the same concepts can be applied to many other areas of business operation, including capacity management.
View this webcast on-demand to learn how to apply agile processes to the function of capacity management and real experiences carrying out capacity management in a company that has embraced Scaled Agile methodologies. Topics covered in this webcast include:
• Agile processes from the beginning
• Capacity management requirements
• Mapping agile processes and executing them
• Lessons learned implementing this approach
Webinar: Scaling Agility: 5 Practices to Get Your Organization StartedAgile Velocity
Agile ‘thinking’ can seem simple until you look at adopting an Agile methodology across an organization. Then it can become daunting, or at a minimum complex. Any way you look at it, most of us need some guidance to get and keep the ball rolling to empower our organizations to change.
In this webinar, Mike and Bryan discussed different tactics and practices that organizations can take as they begin to scale agility across the organization.
Key takeaways include:
– Signs it’s time to start scaling agility
– 5 practices your organization can implement to begin scaling agility
– Tips for evolving these practices into a framework that’s right for your culture
Learn how your organization can combat growing pains and increase agility.
Principle 11 needs to go! by Ken France at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
The Principles in the Agile Manifesto provide us guidance on how to have an Agile mindset in our organizations. Principle 11 within the Manifesto states "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams". While this works well for autonomous teams, it proves to be challenging for large organizations with dozens or even hundreds of teams who need to share common architectures and design patterns.
This talk will present a case study of a large retail organization and explore their journey from a highly centralized/governance-based technology organization to a more distributed/collaborative one and explore their lessons learned and success/failure patterns along the way. In the end, we'll answer the question about whether or not Principle 11 scales!
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9281/principle-11-needs-to-go
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
In the last 24 months, we've transformed the way we work using the Scaled Agile Framework. To help with the transformation, we are also using UX practices, design thinking and lean startup methods.
By the end of this presentation, you will understand how we have leveraged UX practices, innovation games and design sprints to improve the maturation of the business needs and their prioritisation to best fit what our users want and deliver value in a continuous flow.
Ariel Partners has developed a comprehensive program for governance and oversight of large-scale agile projects in the US federal government. This program is structured as a set of eleven major focus areas. Within each focus area, there are specific oversight objectives, activities, and metrics. The output is captured in an excel spreadsheet that calculates a set of quantitative measures, which are then aggregated to automatically produce a composite score, using a similar scoring strategy to FITARA. The program is comprehensive, but it is based on a set of simple principles. We have prepared a presentation that summarizes the program’s key points.
UiPath Community Berlin: Orchestrator API, Swagger, and Test Manager APIUiPathCommunity
Join this UiPath Community Berlin meetup to explore the Orchestrator API, Swagger interface, and the Test Manager API. Learn how to leverage these tools to streamline automation, enhance testing, and integrate more efficiently with UiPath. Perfect for developers, testers, and automation enthusiasts!
📕 Agenda
Welcome & Introductions
Orchestrator API Overview
Exploring the Swagger Interface
Test Manager API Highlights
Streamlining Automation & Testing with APIs (Demo)
Q&A and Open Discussion
Perfect for developers, testers, and automation enthusiasts!
👉 Join our UiPath Community Berlin chapter: https://community.uipath.com/berlin/
This session streamed live on April 29, 2025, 18:00 CET.
Check out all our upcoming UiPath Community sessions at https://community.uipath.com/events/.
Mobile App Development Company in Saudi ArabiaSteve Jonas
EmizenTech is a globally recognized software development company, proudly serving businesses since 2013. With over 11+ years of industry experience and a team of 200+ skilled professionals, we have successfully delivered 1200+ projects across various sectors. As a leading Mobile App Development Company In Saudi Arabia we offer end-to-end solutions for iOS, Android, and cross-platform applications. Our apps are known for their user-friendly interfaces, scalability, high performance, and strong security features. We tailor each mobile application to meet the unique needs of different industries, ensuring a seamless user experience. EmizenTech is committed to turning your vision into a powerful digital product that drives growth, innovation, and long-term success in the competitive mobile landscape of Saudi Arabia.
Noah Loul Shares 5 Steps to Implement AI Agents for Maximum Business Efficien...Noah Loul
Artificial intelligence is changing how businesses operate. Companies are using AI agents to automate tasks, reduce time spent on repetitive work, and focus more on high-value activities. Noah Loul, an AI strategist and entrepreneur, has helped dozens of companies streamline their operations using smart automation. He believes AI agents aren't just tools—they're workers that take on repeatable tasks so your human team can focus on what matters. If you want to reduce time waste and increase output, AI agents are the next move.
Spark is a powerhouse for large datasets, but when it comes to smaller data workloads, its overhead can sometimes slow things down. What if you could achieve high performance and efficiency without the need for Spark?
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Explore delta-rs + CDC and how these open-source innovations power lightweight, high-performance data applications beyond Spark! 🚀
Semantic Cultivators : The Critical Future Role to Enable AIartmondano
By 2026, AI agents will consume 10x more enterprise data than humans, but with none of the contextual understanding that prevents catastrophic misinterpretations.
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Hybrid Growth Mandate Model with TrsLabs
Strategic Investments, Inorganic Growth, Business Model Pivoting are critical activities that business don't do/change everyday. In cases like this, it may benefit your business to choose a temporary external consultant.
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Procurement Insights Cost To Value Guide.pptxJon Hansen
Procurement Insights integrated Historic Procurement Industry Archives, serves as a powerful complement — not a competitor — to other procurement industry firms. It fills critical gaps in depth, agility, and contextual insight that most traditional analyst and association models overlook.
Learn more about this value- driven proprietary service offering here.
Enhancing ICU Intelligence: How Our Functional Testing Enabled a Healthcare I...Impelsys Inc.
Impelsys provided a robust testing solution, leveraging a risk-based and requirement-mapped approach to validate ICU Connect and CritiXpert. A well-defined test suite was developed to assess data communication, clinical data collection, transformation, and visualization across integrated devices.
#StandardsGoals for 2025: Standards & certification roundup - Tech Forum 2025BookNet Canada
Book industry standards are evolving rapidly. In the first part of this session, we’ll share an overview of key developments from 2024 and the early months of 2025. Then, BookNet’s resident standards expert, Tom Richardson, and CEO, Lauren Stewart, have a forward-looking conversation about what’s next.
Link to recording, transcript, and accompanying resource: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/standardsgoals-for-2025-standards-certification-roundup/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 6, 2025 with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
TrustArc Webinar: Consumer Expectations vs Corporate Realities on Data Broker...TrustArc
Most consumers believe they’re making informed decisions about their personal data—adjusting privacy settings, blocking trackers, and opting out where they can. However, our new research reveals that while awareness is high, taking meaningful action is still lacking. On the corporate side, many organizations report strong policies for managing third-party data and consumer consent yet fall short when it comes to consistency, accountability and transparency.
This session will explore the research findings from TrustArc’s Privacy Pulse Survey, examining consumer attitudes toward personal data collection and practical suggestions for corporate practices around purchasing third-party data.
Attendees will learn:
- Consumer awareness around data brokers and what consumers are doing to limit data collection
- How businesses assess third-party vendors and their consent management operations
- Where business preparedness needs improvement
- What these trends mean for the future of privacy governance and public trust
This discussion is essential for privacy, risk, and compliance professionals who want to ground their strategies in current data and prepare for what’s next in the privacy landscape.
TrustArc Webinar: Consumer Expectations vs Corporate Realities on Data Broker...TrustArc
Creating a pull for DevOps in an Agile Transformation
1. Visualizing the Demand For DevOps
Thoughts from the field about how to identify the need for
DevOps and how to use DevOps in a large agile transformation
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#6: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#7: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#8: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#9: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#10: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#11: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#12: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#14: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#15: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#16: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#17: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#41: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.
#50: 11. We start with high level requirements that become more detailed as we learn more about the product we are building. We start with high level architectural representations that emerge toward detailed design as we actually begin developing the working product. You might think of this as rolling wave planning or progressive elaboration. The idea is that we plan based on what we know, and plan more as we learn more.