Date:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Abstract:

In the second part of this Continuous Delivery Webinar Series, Jez Humble (co-author of 'Continuous Delivery') discusses how DevOps can be implemented in large organizations. He provides a selection of the common issues with devops adoption, such as managing risk, compliance with regulation and frameworks such as ITIL, and meeting auditing requirements. He also shows, with examples how DevOps has been implemented in organizations such as Amazon, through moving from projects to products and providing infrastructure as a service, and the benefits this provides and how it improved the ability to meet the goals of good governance.

About the speaker:

Jez Humble Jez is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, and author of 'Continuous Delivery', published in Martin Fowler's Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot-com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services, and online retail companies. Since 2004 he has worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London, and San Francisco. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices in the field of Agile delivery.

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Watch recording of Part 1 of the webinar series (Introduction to Continuous Delivery)

Date:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 

Time:

Americas and Europe: 5 pm (London) // 1 pm (Brasilia) // 12 noon (New York City) // 9 am (San Francisco)

APAC and India: 2 pm (Sydney) // 12 pm (Beijing) // 9:30 am (Bangalore)

Abstract:

This is the second part of the Continuous Delivery Webinar Series by ThoughtWorks. In this talk, Jez Humble will discuss how DevOps can be implemented in large organizations. He will provide a selection of the common issues with devops adoption, such as managing risk, compliance with regulation and frameworks such as ITIL, and meeting auditing requirements. He will also show, with examples how DevOps has been implemented in organizations such as Amazon, through moving from projects to products and providing infrastructure as a service, and the benefits this provides and how it improved the ability to meet the goals of good governance. 

One lucky attendee will get a copy of the book "Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation" by Jez Humble and David Farley. See you there!

About the speaker:

Jez Humble Jez is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, and author of Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler's Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot-com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services, and online retail companies. Since 2004 he has worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London, and San Francisco. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices in the field of Agile delivery.

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Offshore development is now commonplace for just about everything from legacy maintenance to enterprise application development. One area where the notion of offshore continues to encounter resistance is product development as many product managers consider it too risky to develop the "crown jewels" of their organizations in locations that are far removed in terms of both distance and time zones. In this webinar, practitioners from ThoughtWorks will share many of the principles and practices that they have applied to help their customers develop and deploy wildly successful solutions using globally distributed teams. Principles and practices that lead to faster time-to-market, the ability to react quickly to changing market demands, dramatically higher quality and greater return on investment. This practical advice will be brought to life with examples from two offshore product development efforts as we follow them from inception to development to launch.

"The fuzzy front-end" is one of the riskiest periods of time any project and is all the more risky for product development efforts. This is not only the time when it is important to establish both a shared vision and a common understanding of priorities, it is also when the foundation for a productive development environment needs to be established. Using principles and techniques borrowed from agile methods, lean development, user-centered design and tried-and-true project management, the presenters will demonstrate how to conduct a high-value project inception that is ideally suited for offshore product development.

Speakers

Greg Reiser is a Vice President and Offshore Principal at ThoughtWorks. Greg has over 20 years of experience as a developer, project manager and consultant. He has worked in banking, insurance, publishing, logistics, healthcare and telecommunications business domains. Greg is currently focused on helping organizations get the most out of their global development capabilities.

Chirag Doshi has around 8 years of experience in developing software applications. During these years he has played many roles including that of a developer, tester and analyst. He got bit by the Agile bug in 2003 and since then he has been part of a large variety of Agile teams ranging from 2 people in size to about 200.  He has also been an active evangelist of Agile ways in various software conferences both in India and abroad. He has published some of his experience reports in the IEEE magazine and has conducted many extreme-programming workshops.

Satish Viswanathan is a Project Manager at ThoughtWorks. He has over 8 years of experience in the IT industry with experience in domains such as Life Sciences, Healthcare, Insurance, Automotive and Telecom. His current interests are in Lean Software development and in improving the agile analysis process.

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Patricia Mandarino serves ThoughtWorks as a Lead Consultant, Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst. She brings 17 years of technical and management experience in software development, delivery, and methodology implementation. Patti’s expertise extends to project assessments and planning, software delivery, project management and distributed Agile. She also brings extensive experience in accounting, financial services, business process analysis, requirements analysis and data migration. Outside of client delivery work, Patti has led internal resource management and training functions for ThoughtWorks.

Below is the presentation used in the webinar.

    To be better aligned with Business, IT needs to be more responsive in how it delivers business solutions.But  “responsiveness,” is often mistaken with “reactiveness” and can become synonymous with chaos and confusion.Using two typical IT organizations as examples we present a framework to develop your roadmap to prepare for the nuance of change, monitor the progress and success of IT restructure. 

Ross Pettit, Client Principal,ThoughtWorks

Ross Pettit has 15 years' experience as a developer, project manager, and program manager working on enterprise applications. A former COO, Managing Director, and CTO, he also brings extensive experience managing distributed development operations and global consulting companies. His industry background includes investment and retail banking, insurance, manufacturing, distribution, media, utilities, market research and government. He has most recently consulted to global financial services and media companies on Agile transformation programs, with an emphasis on metrics and measurement.  He is a frequent speaker, columnist and active blogger on topics of Agile management, governance and innovation.

Greg Reiser, Software Development Consultant  

Greg is a software development professional with 20+ years of experience as a developer, project manager and a consultant. He has experience in a wide range of industries including banking, insurance, publishing, logistics, healthcare and telecommunications. Greg has helped numerous enterprises deliver mission-critical solutions using advanced software development practices. He is currently focused on helping organizations get the most out of global development capabilities.