DevOps Knowledge Day

Agenda

The main idea of the event is to show you, that high-performing organizations continuously improve themselves. It is due to their determination and courage to work on their organizational culture, processes, leadership, automation and metrics, that they become companies who can react faster to the changing business surrounding. IT quits being a cost inside a company and becomes a source of competitive advantage on the market. During DevOps Knowledge Way we would like to guide you that way and inspire you with examples from the experience of practitioners.

12:00

Welcome

12:45

DevOps will fail… Unless

DevOps, the latest hot topic in the IT world, promises faster, more frequent, higher quality software releases. However, according to Paul and his research, many initiatives fail! Show more In this session, Paul reveals why these initiatives fail and will offer guidance for helping you prevent these from happening. The reasons are taken from his organization’s global findings based on research with more than 400 teams! Paul highlights that DevOps is not something you can ‘implement’ or ‘install’. So how can you ensure that your DevOps initiatives will succeed? In this presentation, Paul will reveal 3 top critical success factors taken from organizations who are delivering significant, sustainable value from their DevOps investments. Attend this session to learn why DevOps has become an ‘imperative’ for survival for many organizations to support and enable their Digital Transformation. For many CEO’s ‘failure is NOT an option’!
Your CEO expects you to come back and make DevOps succeed! Show less

Paul Wilkinson

Tomasz Szymborski

Tomasz od kilkunastu lat związany jest rozwojem oprogramowania, początkowo w roli konsultanta wdrażającego produkty ITSM w największych polskich przedsiębiorstwach. Od kilku lat, jako kierownik projektów i propagator praktyk Agile, implementuje Scrum w środowisku branży finansowej. Certyfikowany PMP, PMI-ACP, ScrumAlliance CSP oraz doświadczony w mentoringu i szkoleniu z praktyk Scrum. Pracując w projektach o rozproszonej organizacji tworzy wydajne międzynarodowe zespoły specjalistów

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13:20

DevOps transformation starts with you

For the last year I have had a chance to observe different organisations trying to approach DevOps transformation. I met with their leaders (including CIOs) and worked with them on possible ways to approach the change. I am myself also responsible for building a high-performing engineering organisation whose vision is to be at least as fast as business needs it. Show more I started to observe patterns among leaders I encountered and me as well regardless of company type (eg. financial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, service) and its size. Those patterns become immediately visible when people discover that DevOps is equally about certain organisation structure, culture, agile and lean processes, metrics as it is about technology and automation. What are those patterns? I will tell you during my talk but for sure they give subjectively justifiable excuses why examples of companies which succeeded in DevOps will not work in your company (“But you don’t understand, our context is special…“). But, being a leader is not about finding excuses. What I would like to achieve is that people who identify some of those excuses at themselves will jump directly into the solution mode. By doing so, they will save themselves a lot of time. Show less

Tomasz Pająk

Profesionally connected with FinTech - eBanking systems and mobile payments. As Head of Engineering at DNA Poland he is responsible for building the organization enabling startups and bigger companies to build digital products and pursuit digital transformations. As DevOps and Agile Lead at Conlea he is responsible for the aforementioned areas helping its clients to build companies reacting to changes faster and more accurately. Tomasz specializes in building high-performing organizations, leading transformations and nurturing organisational culture based on Agile and DevOps. He speaks at international conferences (i.e. Agile Cambridge, DevOpsDays, Agile Management Congress, Agile Lean Europe) and is an author of articles at InfoQ.

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13:35

The DASA DevOps Competence model – creating high performance teams

Speech by the representative of DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)

Ike Hanselman

Maciej Sowiński zajmuje się Scrumem i zwinną organizacją pracy od 2010 roku, od 2014 roku jako agile coach i trener. W tym czasie pracował dla korporacji , spółek skarbu państwa , startupów i software housów . Zarówno w Polsce jak i w Niemczech, Danii, Anglii.
Jako trener przeszkolił już ponad 200 osób z tematów takich jak: Scrum, Kanban, zwinne zarządzanie, zwinne przywództwo Show more

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14:00

Break

14:10

Beyond the tools and processes

A Full-Stack Engineer or a DevOps Leader would tell you about advantages of certain tools, process implementations or operational benefits of automated provisioning and CI/CD. A CIO and a VP would summarise profits in terms of time-to-market and deployment frequency. But how does DevOps look between those two extremes? Show more

How does transformation influence the battlefield of IT - what conflicts arise? How does motivation of people change and how does it affect recruitment abilities and flow of talents between IT units? How does budgeting and controlling change? What about security? How does DevOps influence knowledge sharing within an organisation? How to bridge the gap between DevOps “hawks” and operational and development “pigeons”? What should be communicated to the Board to draw their attention?

Speaker is a hands-on IT manager in big financial organisations. He would like to share his ups and downs in a “DevOps journey” from the perspective of a Senior IT Manager (CTO or Department Director). His opinions are subjective observations and do not necessarily align with observations of other people engaged in the examples or official statements of organisations. Show less

Waldemar Sadkowski

Sam Rosbergen

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14:40

DevOps culture and operational responsibilities

Your organization wants to transform into a DevOps organization or is in the middle of that transformation. By going through the initial steps of that transformation and providing help with examples from the field I hope to inspire the audience to find the specific solutions for their organization. How can we as managers, CXO’s or team members help organizations make the DevOps cultural shift? How do you ensure that teams feel the freedom, support and urgency to change? Show more

After taking steps to support the cultural change, we still need guidelines. Because of my background as a process and contract manager, I know the importance of processes and adherence to rules and regulations. Even in a fully automated DevOps environment there are rules and processes. How do you combine ITIL processes with DevOps? Self-managing teams are a great idea but what if they neglect their duties towards the organization? Even if your DevOps transformation is fully underway, you can still run into unexpected setbacks. For instance: How do you handle cultural resistance? By sharing cases I hope to support the DevOps community in creating their own journeys. Show less

Sam Rosbergen

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15:05

Break

15:25

"The Phoenix Project taster" workshop

DevOps. The latest hot topic in the IT world. Promising faster, more frequent, higher quality software releases. However many initiatives struggle to succeed. Often there is confusion about what DevOps is. Isn’t it just another word for Agile? Isn’t it all about tooling and Continuous Deployment pipelines? Isn’t it about collaboration? One thing It will require more than simply sending staff through DevOps certification and investing in the latest automation tools. Show more It represents a significant cultural and behavioral change throughout the whole end-to-end value chain, from business to development to operations. So how can you help bridge the gap between Dev and Ops? And between the Business & IT? How can you get them all to understand what it means to them and ensure commitment? The Phoenix Project business simulation is a dynamic, highly interactive workshop which can be played with people from the end-to-end value stream or with ‘DevOps teams’. In this session we will explore challenges YOU recognize, reveal how DevOps principles and practices can help and capture concrete actions to take away! The business simulation game is based upon the highly successful ‘Phoenix Project book’ which was partly the catalyst for the world wide interest in DevOps. In the simulation delegates play the roles of the ‘Parts Unlimited’ organization. At the start of the game financial performance is poor, the share price is low and they are getting beaten by their competitors. Survival is at Stake! The business initiates an ambitious IT enabled transformation initiative – ‘The Phoenix project’ – however the current IT capabilities present a significant business risk. Show less

Paul Wilkinson

Deborah Burton

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15:25

Open Space Discussion

Do you have a dilemma regarding DevOps? Would you like to discuss it among other participants supported and moderated by an expert? Join Lean Coffee during which it is the group that chooses a topic and amount of time they are willing to spent for it. Show more An expert moderates the discussion and provides group with her/his knowledge and examples which she/he considers valuable at the time. It is an unique opportunity to exchange experience between people from different companies and become inspired by their stories and thoughts. Show less

Piotr Frąckowiak

Deborah Burton

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17:00

Summary & Networking

O nas

Conlea provides best-practice management training and consultancy in Poland and Europe. We offer courses, workshops and consultancy services in the area of service management, project management, IT governance, strategy and architecture.

We combine innovative and effective training methods and programs with professionalism and experience of our qualified trainers and consultants. We have more than 10 000 hours of classroom experience. More than 200 companies had trusted us. 100% of the polled customers would recommend us

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We started the Let's Manage IT initiative in 2014. It’s just the natural next step in the Conlea growth. It came to life thanks to You – since it’s a direct response to Your needs. It was only after lots of conversations with You when we came to conclusion that training, examination, certification and consulting are all crucial, but … there’s more to it!

We pass the specific knowledge and combine it with the experience sharing. Thereupon we encourage and motivate IT managers and leaders to engage in the process of growth – not only their personal and their teams, but also of the organizations and thereby the entire IT sector in Poland.

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DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) is an independent and open, members driven association supporting the development of DevOps training and certification to the global market. Advocating the development of High-Performance IT Professionals and Teams through agile DevOps initiatives.

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