In this session, get to know how the a highly regulated government agency started on their journey towards a true DevSecOps culture, enabled by the adoption of collaborative tools, people and culture. Hear from the heads of DevOps, and Security to get a deeper perspective from each discipline on how they viewed and embarked upon their goal of modernizing the agency's culture, its people, its processes, and its tools to better meet the its mission. You'll learn about where they began, challenges faced, successes realized, and the strategies they used to overcome common organizational hurdles in the process towards container adoption and a DevSecOps culture.

We hope you can take away some of the lessons learned from our work building DevSecOps multi-tenant platforms. We will discuss changes in organization structure, focus on service, integrations required (human and technical) and the supply chain. Folks looking to introduce and automate security into a new or built workflow will appreciate the challenges we overcame.

Despite the incredible proliferation of tools and processes aimed at minimizing barriers and reducing friction across the daily life of teams, do you find yourself struggling to make sense of the information hairball and constantly asking, "How's the deployment going?", "Who's responding to that incident?", "Is staging green?", "Why do I have 9999 unread emails?"...

STOP! ChatOps can help your teams communicate and collaborate more efficiently by providing a unifying platform across the disparate tools and processes to disseminate knowledge across everyone on the team and provide visibility cross the board.

What started as a playful experiment, ChatOps helps foster a culture that embraces the core tenets of DevOps - automation, measurement, sharing - by bringing everyday tools and processes right into the middle of a conversation in a virtual space used by the teams, providing the ability to work not just quickly, but smoothly. The ability to instruct "bots" to perform routine tasks through your chat tools is powerful and perhaps shines a light on what could be the next dominant interface for interaction. There’s immediate value in the visibility, awareness and real-time feedback it offers to the entire team. Everyone can see what's being done, the resulting effects, and provides a strong foundation for deep collaboration, learning and teaching by doing.

In this session geared towards beginners, we will introduce the essential concepts of ChatOps, the benefits, understand the anatomy of a chat application/robot, and demonstrate how ChatOps can be leveraged to help team culture through synchronous communication, speed of action, broader visibility and accurate awareness.

“Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.”  - Marty Rubin

So your organization has embarked upon a transformation to be more nimble and responsive by employing the latest tools and thinking in the Agile and DevOps arena.  In this transformational context, how do you know that your initiatives are effective?  Empirical measurements should provide insights on business value flow and delivery efficiency, allowing teams and organizations to see how they are progressing toward achieving their goals, but all too often we find ourselves mired in measurement traps that don't quite provide the right guidance in steering our efforts. 

Rooted in contemporary thinking and tested in practice, this talk explores the principles of good measurement, what to measure, what not to measure, and enumerates some key metrics to help guide and inform our Agile and DevOps efforts.  If done right, metrics can present a true picture of performance, and any progression, digression of these metrics can drive learning and improvement.  

It is our hope that this session inspires organizations and teams to start or take a fresh look at implementing a valuable measurement program.

“Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.”  - Marty Rubin

So your organization has embarked upon a transformation to be more nimble and responsive by employing the latest tools and thinking in the Agile and DevOps arena.  In this transformational context, how do you know that your initiatives are effective?  Empirical measurements should provide insights on business value flow and delivery efficiency, allowing teams and organizations to see how they are progressing toward achieving their goals, but all too often we find ourselves mired in measurement traps that don't quite provide the right guidance in steering our efforts. 

Rooted in contemporary thinking and tested in practice, this talk explores the principles of good measurement, what to measure, what not to measure, and enumerates some key metrics to help guide and inform our Agile and DevOps efforts.  If done right, metrics can present a true picture of performance, and any progression, digression of these metrics can drive learning and improvement.  

It is our hope that this session inspires organizations and teams to start or take a fresh look at implementing a valuable measurement program.

As organizations begin to work on numerous services and components many are faced with a new set of challenges.  Adding to these challenges is the ever increasing remote and distributed workforce.  This places a significant operational and tooling overhead on standard development teams. Each team needs its own pipeline, monitoring-alerting, on-call staff, etc.  It is not enough for teams to be agile in coding and systems, teams need to understand how a change can affect a distributed system.  With new service frameworks focusing on community pipelines, enhanced collaboration, and team ownership, sanity can exist.  Pipeline as a Service can help force organizations transformation into Community DevOps.

In this session we will discuss how Community DevOps can enable teams to mange the complexity of modern development from ideation to production.  We will discuss how pipeline as a service provides the right balance of ownership from a single team to an enterprise, the technical components and how to avoid common pitfalls.

If you are looking for a recipe (pun intended) for success, then this session will disappoint you.  For, a tool by itself will not change anything, but how a tool is used can help foster changes in behavior, which is key to organizational transformation.  

 So, what is DevOps? Is it just hype? How does it help organizations deliver value to their customers? If these questions are on your mind then this session is for you. While simply a constriction of two terms, "devops" is in essence a stub for broader organizational collaboration and feedback beyond just that of development and operations working together.  It emerged as a grass-roots movement at the confluence of two rising trends - agile development and large-scale cloud infrastructure.  And, like any horizontal revolution, devops is a path of discovery - people and processes do not change overnight.  Agility in coding and agility in systems takes time and effort, but the results can be astonishing.  The feedback and feed-forward loops that devops advocates makes the whole difference in quality and results, while the sharing and close collaboration pierces the veil among organizational silos, blurring their delineating lines. 

 In this session targeted towards beginners, we will explore these ideas and principles, framing our conversation within the context of the nascent and evolving CALMS framework and look at what it means to extend  "traditional agile" principles beyond the boundaries of the code to the entire delivered service.  After-all, isn't the principal Agile credo about satisfying the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software?

If you are looking for a recipe (pun intended) for success, then this session will disappoint you.  For, a tool by itself will not change anything, but how a tool is used can help foster changes in behavior, which is key to organizational transformation.  

 So, what is DevOps? Is it just hype? How does it help organizations deliver value to their customers? If these questions are on your mind then this session is for you. While simply a constriction of two terms, "devops" is in essence a stub for broader organizational collaboration and feedback beyond just that of development and operations working together.  It emerged as a grass-roots movement at the confluence of two rising trends - agile development and large-scale cloud infrastructure.  And, like any horizontal revolution, devops is a path of discovery - people and processes do not change overnight.  Agility in coding and agility in systems takes time and effort, but the results can be astonishing.  The feedback and feed-forward loops that devops advocates makes the whole difference in quality and results, while the sharing and close collaboration pierces the veil among organizational silos, blurring their delineating lines. 

 In this session targeted towards beginners, we will explore these ideas and principles, framing our conversation within the context of the nascent and evolving CALMS framework and look at what it means to extend  "traditional agile" principles beyond the boundaries of the code to the entire delivered service.  After-all, isn't the principal Agile credo about satisfying the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software?