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
Sara Loveless is an experienced information security professional seeking a new opportunity. She has 15 years of experience in IT and 10 years in information security management. Currently, she is a Senior IT Risk Analyst at Devon Energy, where she oversees their IT risk management program and has implemented various initiatives that improved security awareness, reduced risks and incidents, and ensured regulatory compliance. Prior to Devon Energy, she held information security roles at DISA and Computer System Designers, where she also demonstrated success in ensuring compliance and improving security practices.
The document discusses auditing IT infrastructure including hardware, networks, and telecommunications devices. It provides details on objectives of IT audits such as assessing continuity, management/maintenance, and security of systems. It also discusses standards and guidelines for auditing such as CobiT, ISO 27001, and reviewing hardware assets, network design, security, backups, and telecommunication agreements and invoices.
The intent of the paper is to propose a simple yet comprehensive technique to model enterprise security architecture and design aligned to SABSA that enables –
Standardisation of SABSA Enterprise Security Architecture framework by formalizing common language used in the form of ESA modelling notation
Reusability of model artefacts (not documents) to enable enterprise and department level collaboration and knowledge management
Generic or organisation specific Library of assets for various ESA artefacts such as – Business attribute profile(s), security services, mechanisms and components and associated views
Tool-assisted development using a separate toolbox for ESA that augments Enterprise Architecture (ToGAF) modelling using Archimate.
This document discusses business continuity planning (BCP). It outlines the key steps in developing an effective BCP, including: project scope and planning, business impact assessment, continuity planning, and approval/implementation. The project scope and planning phase involves analyzing the business organization, selecting a BCP team, assessing resource needs, and analyzing legal requirements. The business impact assessment identifies critical business functions, resources they depend on, risks/vulnerabilities, and calculates downtime tolerances. Continuity planning develops strategies to address identified risks and minimize their impact. The overall goal is to maintain business operations during a disaster through preparedness and recovery planning.
TSI Managed Network Services and IT SupportJeffery Walker
TSI Solutions provides IT managed services including remote monitoring, support, and reporting 24/7 to help businesses improve operational productivity and reduce IT costs. Their services include proactive monitoring of systems and networks, automated alerting and ticket generation, patching, and data backup solutions. TSI is an authorized partner of leading technology providers and offers consultative IT services and solutions.
The document discusses how increased business demands are putting pressure on IT departments to have flexible and resilient systems. Many organizations are looking to outsource some or all of their IT operations to managed service providers in order to supplement their in-house capabilities and gain access to technical expertise. When outsourcing, organizations want a provider that can ensure continuity of service while also improving performance. Shuffle IT Solutions provides a wide range of managed IT services aimed at meeting these needs.
This document discusses how organizations can improve their return on investment (ROI) in security and compliance management through IT process automation. It argues that automating routine security tasks can free up resources to focus on more strategic work, while also integrating tools and data to streamline processes. This approach aims to simultaneously improve operational efficiency and business enablement. The document provides examples of how NetIQ solutions can help achieve these goals across key areas like configuration management, user activity monitoring, and change control.
Felicia Pearson has over 15 years of experience in IT security, including network and systems security, regulatory adherence, cryptography, and risk assessment. She has held positions at Lockheed Martin and CSC providing UNIX/Linux administration, troubleshooting, disaster recovery planning, and security implementation for DOD customers. Her background includes areas such as secure protocols, encryption, log analysis, and technical documentation writing. She has a BA in Computer Information Management and an MS in Managing Computer Information Technology.
This deck provides a quick overview of the Managed Services Offerings that Prolifics provides. Note that this deck includes the traditional Managed Services Model and the Cloud Managed Services offerings will be uploaded soon in the near future.
www.hkit.in an ISO 27001 Certified IT Security Auditing Company offers penetration test, vulnerable assessment test, compliance audits, infra audits, network audits, application audits, data centre audits, web application audits, cloud audits, etc.,
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architectural Methodologies
A Brief History of Enterprise Architecture
Zachman Framework
Business Attributes
Features & Advantages
SABSA Lifecycle
SABSA Development Process
SMP Maturity Levels
This document provides an overview of the roles and certifications available for assurance professionals working with information systems. It discusses why IS auditing is important given regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley that require verifying system controls. Common certifications include CISA, CISM, and CGEIT from ISACA, which focus on auditing, security management, and IT governance respectively. The CISSP from (ISC)2 demonstrates broad security knowledge, while the GIAC GSNA tests systems and network auditing skills. Obtaining certifications provides credibility, ensures competence, and allows professionals to efficiently add value through activities like risk assessments, security evaluations, and enhancing audit effectiveness.
Implementation of RBAC and Data Classification onto a Mainframe system (v1.5)Rui Miguel Feio
A walk through the challenges of implementing a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) solution and Data Classification on the mainframe. A basic overview of the steps taken, the tools used, the problems encountered and the final benefits.
Network operations center best practices (3)Gabby Nizri
This document discusses best practices for Network Operations Centers (NOCs). It covers essential tools like ticketing systems, knowledgebases, reporting and monitoring. Implementing these tools helps NOCs keep track of issues, share knowledge, measure performance, and monitor infrastructure and user experience. The document also discusses defining roles and responsibilities clearly to avoid delays in decision making and assigning work appropriately based on skills. Defining operator and shift manager roles helps prioritize tasks and escalate issues effectively.
The document discusses the need for an adaptive enterprise security architecture. It proposes using SABSA, a risk-driven methodology for developing security architectures that support critical business initiatives. An adaptive enterprise security architecture frames all security aspects, manages security comprehensively, and ensures the architecture remains relevant through governance, maturity models, risk communication and integrated controls.
Thousands of Hours Saved and Risk Reduced for EBS Upgrades & ImplementationsOracle
Hear how a major engineering company and healthcare providor have used Oracle GRC Advanced Controls to save thousands of hours security access provisioing, configuration change control, testing, project management and internal and external audit.
NEMEA Compliance Center - the most powerful survey creation, management, and reporting solution available. It intuitively collects responses, writes, and produces standardized regulatory compliance reports. In fact, it even supports the use of many different standards at once. Our compliance software has a fully featured user-interface that lets you rapidly compare the laws and regulations that govern your industry and business.
Structured NERC CIP Process Improvement Using Six SigmaEnergySec
Presented by: Chris Unton, Midwest ISO (MISO)
Abstract: MISO embarked on a structured, comprehensive process improvement program to make advancements in cyber security risk reduction as well as CIP compliance. The program utilizes the Six Sigma framework to reduce process defects and gain efficiencies. The 13 month effort comprises process level health checks; assignment of functional roles, responsibilities, and oversight; cross-functional process improvement events; and training/awareness curriculums to lock in the improvements. As a result, MISO not only is strengthening its cyber security and compliance posture, but also positioning the company for a smoother adoption of controls based audits when applicable. In this presentation, Mr. Unton will walk through the process and show how this has been instrumental in greatly enhancing MISO’s security and compliance environment.
Balanced agile approach is designed to take advantage of agile tradition values the same time to better manage its own challenges. The approach covers four key areas: agile organization, agile system architecture, agile process and agile project management.
The document discusses agile architecture and how architecture can support agile development. It defines agile architecture as one that allows quick replacement of details and is easy to verify. An agile architecture enables the principles of the Agile Manifesto by allowing for quick change and being verifiable at any point. Traditional architecture focuses on rules and limitations, while agile architecture is needed to support rapid development, continuous delivery of value, and managing change and complexity. The document outlines practices of agile architecture including having architecture as part of the scrum team and modeling and documenting in an agile fashion. It also discusses roles like the agile architect and characteristics like understanding stakeholders and having a big picture view.
Scaling Agile is easily misunderstood. Scaling is the term we often hear used to describe using Agile methods with large enterprises. Larger enterprises often deal with bigger and more complex problems than small ones. They have more employees, subcontracting companies, different business units, more processes and a strong culture that defines how things are done. At the same time, they need to be able to deliver results in an ever-changing business environment. They need to be Agile but the bigger the company, the bigger the challenges are for scaling Agile.
Scaling frameworks available in the market today are maturing quickly and provide a variety of choices. Like the Agile Manifesto, these frameworks are based on principles, and they vary widely in the specificity of the recommended approach.
In this session, we will compare how two scaling frameworks, LeSS and SAFe, address the challenges of agility at scale. We will talk about how these two frameworks align, coordinate, and manage dependencies across multiple teams to maintain consistency and agility at scale.
Many organizations engage in initiatives to develop elaborate reference architectures, patterns and governance processes in an attempt to optimize their enterprise. They put significant effort into the upfront guidance of development teams, and then find themselves challenged to understand how closely an architecture matches the approved approach after the projects complete. Organizations must take a new approach to this problem!
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Practical Enterprise Architecture in Medium-size Corporation using TOGAFMichael Sukachev
This document discusses establishing an enterprise architecture practice at a medium-sized corporation using the TOGAF framework. It outlines current challenges like rapidly changing business needs and a lack of architecture governance. It then defines what enterprise architecture is and why it is important to establish an EA practice to gain benefits like increased agility and reuse. The document recommends practical steps to get started, including selecting an EA framework and tool, customizing them to the organization, and implementing the practice incrementally. It emphasizes establishing principles, governance and stakeholder collaboration.
How to become a great DevOps Leader, an ITSM Academy WebinarITSM Academy, Inc.
Presenter: Mustafa Kapadia, Service Line Leader, IBM
The ideal DevOps Leader is a tactical or strategic individual who helps design, influence, implement or motivate the cultural transformation proven to be a critical success factor in DevOps adoption. The most successful DevOps leaders understand the human dynamics of cultural change and are equipped with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum. We will explore the role of the DevOps Leader in more detail.
Enterprise architecture (EA) can potentially promote a common business vision within your organization, provide guidance to improve both business and IT decision making, and improve IT efficiencies. Unfortunately many EA teams struggle to provide these benefits, often because they are perceived as ivory tower or being too difficult to work with.
The adoption of disciplined agile and lean strategies that are based on collaboration, enablement, and streamlining the flow of work are the keys to EA success. Disciplined strategies that produce light-weight, yet still sufficient, artifacts are the key to your success. This presentation explores both the success factors and failure factors surrounding EA, pragmatic strategies for a lean/agile approach to EA, and how EA is supported and enhanced by the Disciplined Agile framework. This isn’t your grandfather’s EA strategy.
Анна Мамаєва: When SAFe is safe. Agile для дорослих компанійLviv Startup Club
Kyiv Project Management Day 2016 Анна Мамаєва: When SAFe is safe. Agile для дорослих компаній
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As more organizations begin to adopt agile on multiple, interdependent teams, how do we ensure that the success within a team can translate to success at the enterprise level?
Presented by: Sanjiv Augustine, President of LitheSpeed
ANIn Coimbatore Jan 2024 |Combining Agile Mindset and Design Thinking by Shan...AgileNetwork
1. The document discusses combining an agile mindset, design thinking, and the lean startup cycle to solve problems in an innovative way.
2. It provides an example of a manufacturing client who wanted to proactively detect and fix faults to improve customer satisfaction.
3. Using design thinking to understand the problem, an agile approach to build minimal viable products iteratively, and lean startup methodology of testing assumptions, the teams built 24 MVPs over 9 months which led to 6 successful production solutions that increased uptime and customer satisfaction.
The document provides an overview of agile software development principles and practices. It discusses benefits of agility such as faster time to market and better responsiveness. Common agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban are summarized. Extreme programming practices for engineering are outlined. The document also discusses scaling agile through frameworks like SAFe and applying lean principles to software development. Overall it serves as a high-level introduction to agile concepts, methods and roles.
This document provides an overview of approaches to scaling agile practices in large organizations. It discusses common challenges in scaling teams and popular scaling frameworks including Scrum of Scrums, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Spotify model, Scrum at Scale, and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). The document also provides case studies of organizations that have implemented agile transformations at scale and suggests metrics for measuring agile success.
Presenter:
Dr. Gail Ferreira, Agile Practice Leader, MATRIX Resources, San Francisco Center of Excellence
Rapid scale directly impacts all levels of decision-making, planning, execution, culture, and communications for executives in hypergrowth companies. In this session, we will discuss how to organize, support, and tailor agile practices for teams and sub-teams in companies with a rapid growth cycle. We will share contemporary case studies of hypergrowth companies who have delivered agile at scale.
Topics will include:
• Basic agile and lean methods
• Scrum of Scrums
• SAFe
• Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
• Agility at Scale (Ambler/Lines)
• Spotify model (Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds, DSDM).
The document discusses fundamentals of agile development including the agile manifesto and its 12 principles. It emphasizes values such as individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. It also discusses agile processes like Scrum and Kanban, continuous improvement through inspection and adaptation, and techniques like test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration to enable regular rapid feedback. Finally, it notes that while agile is popular, the real question is whether it will make teams more successful in delivering value to customers on time and under budget.
Transition to feature teams - Gil Wasserman - Agile Israel 2013AgileSparks
Feature teams structure is a well known good-engineering-practice, especially for agile, busniess driven organizations. However, transferring an organization from component to feature teams is always a challange. Most organization actually keep their component driven structure and way of operation. This lecture is intended for those who have already been convinced about the benefits and value of feature teams, but are still hesitant to make the change. In this lecture we shall discuss optional migration paths and share practical considerations and tips to help make the transition effective and worth doing.
Introduction to Enterprise Agile FrameworksMehul Kapadia
The document provides an overview of several enterprise agile frameworks: SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery), and LeSS (Large Scale Scrum). It describes the foundations, roles, events, and distinctive features of each framework at a high level. Additionally, it provides references and resources for further exploration of these frameworks.
The document summarizes the key updates in SAFe 5.1 from Scaled Agile, including:
- New operational value streams and improved development value streams icons.
- Enhanced continuous delivery pipeline visualization.
- Extended guidance for organizing agile teams and aligning them to value streams.
- Added participatory budgeting process and new business and technology landing pages.
- Updated SAFe courseware and toolkits to reflect SAFe 5.1 framework changes.
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Design Teams are a Design Exercise by Phillip Joe at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
They say that design is a team sport, and if your team operates in an agile/lean environment, strength and flexibility are more crucial than ever.
An effective design team requires a multitude of perse skills, and it's impossible for any one individual to possess them all.
So, how do you go about putting together a team that’s balanced, powerful and can work effectively with other teams? What is the right mixture of junior and senior practitioners?
What skills, soft and hard, do you need to design and deliver outstanding products and services that support meaningful outcomes?
In this workshop, we’ll take a look at (work through) how to assess the skills of our colleagues (as well as our own) to best shape and, inspire and lead a design team that works together (and stays together). A team where more experienced practitioners thrive and more junior ones are supported, mentored and enabled to grow, and where complementarity and teamwork are the foundations of success.
Finally, we will look at how to use the knowledge and techniques we’ve collected over the years to hire, motivate and keep design teams happy.
Bonus round: if you’re looking for work, what does a good team look like from the outside?
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9327/design-teams-are-a-design-exercise
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Keeping hundreds of code repositories consistent, and staying sane by Vincent...Agile India
With the move to microservices architecture, a lot of teams end up managing dozens of code repositories (vs just a couple before), and some tasks that were done quickly manually are now becoming very time consuming : consistency of the repositories, and eventually of your platform, gets impacted, making it more and more difficult to manage.
Surely, there must be some tools existing to take care of boring tasks like finding where a given dependency is used, and upgrade it automatically (this is just an example)... Well actually, we didn't find anything, so we implemented them ourselves and made them available for everyone !
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/7873/keeping-hundreds-of-code-repositories-consistent-and-staying-sane
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
The End is Nigh! Signs of Transformation Apocalypse by Alex Sloley at #AgileI...Agile India
How can an Agile Coach figure out when an Agile “Transformation” is going wrong? Are there signs that they might see, heed, and take action upon? Of course, there are!
Hindsight is 20/20, but in the moment, these warning signs can be hard to see. Let’s explore some of the more common, and frightening, warning signs that your Agile “Transformation” might be exhibiting. We will discuss transformation provider types, frameworks, keywords, and other anti-patterns that might be signs that THE END IS NIGH.
This session will review common themes and help familiarize you with the warning signs. Armed with this new knowledge, you will be able to plan as appropriate, to help navigate your organization through potential impending doom.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/7880/the-end-is-nigh-signs-of-transformation-apocalypse
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Strategic Domain-Driven Design by Nick Tune at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
f you’re a software developer or architect who wants to play a more influential role in ensuring your software systems are optimised to support business goals, then you need to learn about the benefits and techniques of modern strategic domain-driven design.
Many people think that DDD is about software design patterns, but that’s only a small part, and the least important part of DDD. In fact, Eric Evans wishes he’d focused more on the strategic aspects of DDD in his famous book (Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software) and pushed the tactical coding patterns to the back!
Strategic domain-driven design is about truly understanding the business domain. It involves collaboratively modelling business processes using advanced modelling techniques, like Event Storming and Domain Storytelling, with domain experts on an ongoing basis.
One of the core outcomes of strategic DDD is identifying cohesive modules, known as bounded context. Bounded contexts help you to create a maintainable, comprehensible codebase by isolating dependencies and delineating concepts that reference different classes of business value.
In this talk, you’ll see many of the most effective bounded context design heuristics, recurring patterns in the wild, and you’ll learn how to facilitate those vital modelling sessions so you can lead the adoption of strategic DDD in your organisation.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8100/strategic-domain-driven-design
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Writing and maintaining a suite of acceptance tests that can give you a high level of confidence in the behaviour and configuration of your system is a complex task. In this session, Dave will describe approaches to acceptance testing that allow teams to:
work quickly and effectively
build excellent functional coverage for complex enterprise-scale systems
manage and maintain those tests in the face of change, and of evolution in both the codebase and the understanding of the business problem.
This workshop will answer the following questions, and more:
How do you fail fast?
How do you make your testing scalable?
How do you isolate test cases from one-another?
How do you maintain a working body of tests when you radically change the interface to your system?
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8539/acceptance-testing-for-continuous-delivery
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
All track development - (or how we dropped the collective ego and created a p...Agile India
Ant Boobier discusses creating a product playbook at Bank of New Zealand to standardize their agile practices and development processes. They tried dual track development with two teams working separately but it led to clashes. They shifted to having one empirical track with the whole team having ownership. They created a playbook test to make it self-explanatory, endorsed by key areas, and enjoyable to read. It brings together best practices in an easy to understand framework that the team adopted and adapted. The playbook treats products like pets to question thinking and say no to features tangential to the main product.
Open Salaries: from employees to managing partners by Alexey Voronin at #Agil...Agile India
Do you want to hire the best? I suppose yes. Do you want them to grow, to improve their skills continuously and to develop your company? Hope so? But what happens if people grow quicker than the company itself? That might be an issue and you need serious changes in your company to keep employees interested to stay, to grow and to develop your company. We are using open salaries, money transparency and an advice process in ScrumTrek company to retain interest, to have a new source of enthusiasm and motivation of our employees. We started our journey 2.5 years ago and we are happy to share how it feels from inside.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8090/open-salaries-from-employees-to-managing-partners
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Scaling Enterprise Agility amidst Cross Border Merger by Rocky Woestenborghs ...Agile India
ING has been a frontrunner in the banking industry for more than a century and aims to become 'one global ING' that delivers a consistent customer experience to all its customers across the globe. The bank has taken the first big step towards this ambition by uniting its two biggest countries – the Netherlands and Belgium. The project aims to create a single operating model across the border, with simpler, standardized processes and integrated activities that will improve operational efficiency and agility.
While everyone acknowledges that mergers and acquisitions are an essential part of scaling an organization's impact, however, these are usually executed in a very top-down, waterfall-ish approach. Typically such initiatives don't embody any agile values or mindset. As a leader driving this change, Rocky will narrate the story of merging 2 agile organizations with more than 8000 people's workforce. He will share his experience on how the two countries are joining forces, pooling talent plus creativity to deliver one set of customer journeys on an integrated platform, that will result in a truly empowering customer experience.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9683/scaling-enterprise-agility-amidst-cross-border-merger
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
InfraOps Agility - A Sysad's Perspective by Dushyanth Harinath at #AgileIndia...Agile India
This document discusses infrastructure operations agility and the journey of a sysadmin. It covers topics like infrastructure as code, observability, resiliency, production operations, and managing change and incidents. It also discusses the struggle to balance business needs, outcomes, and running the business. Case studies on automating servers and microservices on the cloud are presented. The document emphasizes that culture, structures, and priorities are key ingredients for infrastructure operations agility. It advocates for implicit trust, transparency, and nurturing people.
Going for 10X: Building teams in a Hyper-Competitive Market by Jacob Singh at...Agile India
Grofers doubled its revenue every 6 months for the last 2 years. In January of 2019, we did it in one month. During this time, we've gone through 2 funding crunches, brutal government regulation changes and the entrance of two behemoths (AMZ and WALL) as direct competitors.
This talk will explore how to optimize the organization towards big bets, and how we have created a culture of risk taking, managed chaos and rapid alignment to push through changes like:
The 2nd largest membership program in India in 2 months
A sale we set up in 2 weeks that doubled our revenue
A logistic innovation which halved our cost AND errors within 3 months
Launched 600 private label products in 6 months
If you struggle to get your teams to see the bigger picture, or work together on "the most important" thing, maybe this will be helpful for you.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9545/going-for-10x-building-teams-in-a-hyper-competitive-market
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Becoming the Catalyst - The Spark of Change that Will Move Your Team Forward ...Agile India
Many of the positive changes we will make with our teams will start with one person's insight. Don't leave that inspiration to chance. Set yourself up to make that insight more likely and learn what to do when you have it that will help you help your team grow.
It all begins with ourselves. More than we would like to believe, people tend to seek stability. How do we create the right environment within ourselves to be open to change, to realize there is room for improvement? How do we do this in a way that our primitive brain doesn't find threatening? In order to become the catalyst, we first need to create an environment in which we can do the same thing to ourselves. That is much harder than it sounds. Being able to do so requires the right mindset, but how do you develop it? How do you recognize that it is needed? How do you open yourself up to change, embrace it, and incorporate experimentation into your own practice?
Having insight is not enough. While an insight might start with one person, change is a team activity. Once you recognize an opportunity, how do you share your insight with your team in a way that will be embraced instead of rejected? Do you understand the biases and fears that might cause resistance to your idea? Just as importantly, how do you time your proposals so that they have the highest likelihood of success?
In this talk, I will talk about 6 things that are necessary for you to do to create the conditions where change is possible. I'll share anecdotes from my own experience promoting change within startups, agencies, and big companies. Drawn from diverse sources, such as BJ Fogg, Carol Dweck, Jocko Willink, and Ray Dalio, these 6 characteristics will help you effect change effectively.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9253/becoming-the-catalyst-the-spark-of-change-that-will-move-your-team-forward
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Branding within your UX: The secret to creating loyal customers by Bill Beard...Agile India
Why do certain products create passionate users while others struggle to gain traction? Is it Design? Usability? Simplicity? No. It’s branding. In today’s crowded marketplace, making a product that works--or even works well--is no longer good enough. In this talk, we’ll discuss the basics of branding and how branding works in conjunction with your User Experience to establish an emotional connection with your users so you can turn them into loyal customers and brand ambassadors.
This talk is for anyone involved or interested in UX, at any experience level, including creative directors, designers, writers, executives, and product managers. This talk will cover the role of emotion within the decision-making process and how influencing a user’s emotions during a product experience translates to brand loyalty. I’ll explain the fundamentals and purpose behind branding, why it has changed, and why we need to focus on it more when designing experiences.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8642/branding-within-your-ux-the-secret-to-creating-loyal-customers
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Build Agile Organization: Lessons Learned from Aikido by Marc Gong at #AgileI...Agile India
The document discusses lessons that can be learned from Aikido and applied to building an agile organization. It covers the three stages of learning Aikido: Shu (learning basics), Ha (practice), and Ri (mastery). In Shu, one learns basic movements like sitting, standing, and locks through repetition. In Ha, one gains skill through practice with others in a safe environment. Ri involves lifelong commitment, as mastery has no end; even black belts have only begun. The mindset of courage, focus, commitment, respect, and openness is essential. An agile organization reflects these principles by embracing practitioner leadership, learning from each other, and accepting failure as part of the process of continuous improvement
Security considerations while deploying Containerized Applications by Neepend...Agile India
This document discusses various security considerations for containerized applications running on Kubernetes, including:
- Scanning container images for vulnerabilities during the build process and signing images.
- Ensuring container images are minimal in size by using smaller base images like Alpine Linux, running as a non-root user, and mounting the filesystem read-only.
- Implementing role-based access control (RBAC) in Kubernetes using roles and role bindings to control access at the namespace and cluster level.
- Auditing Kubernetes API access for security and compliance purposes.
- Managing secrets securely using Kubernetes secrets rather than environment variables or volumes.
Cloud Native in the US Federal Government by Jez Humble at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Going cloud native in a highly regulated context presents challenges of its own. In this talk, Jez Humble will share with you the platform created by the cloud.gov team at 18F, and the benefits it brought to federal agencies seeking to use the cloud.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8525/cloud-native-in-the-us-federal-government
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...Agile India
This document discusses building and scaling high-performing technology organizations through agile practices and DevOps. It touches on topics like creating value streams across projects, challenges with going agile at an enterprise level, the importance of principles like test-driven development, and building a culture of learning from failures. It also provides links to research on metrics like lead time for changes and deploy frequency that correlate with high performance.
Reactive Systems by Dave Farley at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
21st century problems cannot be solved with 20th century software architectures. So why is the starting point for so many projects built on the assumption of a simplistic monolithic, three-layer architecture sat on top of a RDBMS? Hardware has progressed. It has changed many of the assumptions that such architectures were built upon. Modern systems are distributed, deal with massive throughput of data and transactions. Users expect 24/7 service.
The Reactive Manifesto describes what it takes to build systems that meet these demands. Such systems are Responsive, Resilient, Elastic and Message Driven. What does this mean in terms of software architecture and design? This presentation will introduce these ideas and describe how systems built on these principles work.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8536/reactive-systems
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Collaboration Contracts by Diane Zajac & Doc Norton at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Not all team decisions need to be made by the entire team. There. Someone said it. In some cases, we can trust a single individual to make the decision because they have the most experience and insight. In other situations, we want a variety of interests and perspectives included to ensure a well-considered, unbiased decision. But how do we decide who and what and when?
Put down the RACI chart - there's a better way! A Collaboration Contract is a simple tool that allows team members to opt into conversations and decisions. With a Collaboration Contract, teams identify the decision makers, and through an open selection process, establish their desired level of autonomy. This is a not a decision-making tool, but a tool for assembling the decision making team with clear expectations and agreements.
Join Diane and Doc in this hands-on workshop where you will learn what it takes to run your own Collaboration Contract. Learn this powerful technique today and establish clearer decision making for your team tomorrow.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8523/collaboration-contracts
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Tuckman was wrong by Doc Norton at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
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More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8521/tuckman-was-wrong
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
7 Steps to Design, Build, and Scale an AI Product by Allie Miller at #AgileIn...Agile India
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More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8517/7-steps-to-design-build-and-scale-an-ai-product
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
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3. Intros
Ken France, SAFe Fellow
• VP of Scaled Agility @Cprime
• 25+ years’ experience
• Executive Enterprise Coach
• Helps Fortune 100 enterprises tackle large
complex scaled agile transformations in
various verticals (retail, healthcare,
insurance, finance. etc)
• Passionate about empowering all levels of
org in their journey to drive sustainable
improvements and meaningful change
6. Agile Manifesto: Principle 11
“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge
from self-organizing teams”
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
7. But does this Scale to the Enterprise?
• Can teams truly be empowered to define their
own architecture?
• How do we ensure integration and performance
across systems of systems?
• Can’t we just “make the enterprise smaller” by
breaking it down into smaller problems to solve?
• How do we avoid a big up front waterfall design?
• Can we truly be agile at scale?
9. Context/Problem Statement: Large Retailer
Context: ~18M customers, 2,200 stores, $68B Revenue, ~300K total employees
IT Profile:
• Location: Primarily across various sites in the US as well as Bangalore
• Scope: IT Strategy, Security, Ops, Enterprise Arch, Infrastructure Engineering,
Digital Solutions
• Sample Technologies: Java/J2EE, Websphere, Azure, Google Cloud
Initial Problem Statement: Applying Lean-Agile at the team level for years; now
looking to scale across the organization
What we found: Legacy skillsets and technologies in place; most advanced in
digital space; needed to “upgrade” approach to environments – automation, hiring
and developing modern skillsets; modernize technology – move to cloud
10. Initial State: Challenges
• Company funded solutions based on projects.
• Projects drew many different resources until completion & those teams
were then disbanded (temporary teams vs. permanent ownership).
• Technical resources fragmented across many different solutions & did
not focus or put energy into single product.
• Support of products was very tenuous since original team was disbanded
& those resources may or may not work for company.
• Communication / transparency of project from ideation to delivery was
limited.
• Organization not data driven so decisions are solely based on upper
management charting direction for organization.
• Centralized architecture team focused originally on being a governance
gate for new capabilities via the architecture review board and did not
work collaboratively, early and often with solution teams.
11. Initial State: Enterprise Architecture
Centralized Architecture
Enterprise
Architects
Best Practices / Architecture / Review Boards
Solution
Teams
Solution
Teams
Solution
Teams
15. Target State: Service Catalog
Focus on Automation
System Team quickly composes infrastructure from Engineering Team’s automation (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Azure CLI)
16. Target State: Engineering Services
• Take existing administration activities and codify them into templates.
• Compose templates into larger / re-usable modules / components.
• Leverage Git to store and manage the lifecycle of templates.
• Use management consoles to validate, monitor and engage with Cloud
Git Training
Cloud Training
Template Development Training
17. Target State: System Team
Support Scrum teams in establishing Continuous Delivery Pipelines of their Software Solutions via a team
that operates on the same cadence.
18. Target State: Summary
• Moving to multi-cloud and microservices
• Automation to standardize path to production including infrastructure,
builds and testing
• Develop KPIs / metrics / dashboard to determine health of a team and their
solution
• Upskill teams with latest approaches and technology in order to retain and
gain new talent into the organization
36. Takeaways
• Principle 11 does NOT have to go! J
• Establish the proper balance between centralized intentional architecture
and de-centralized emergent design
• Set proper cadence & process for collaboration between architects,
business, and teams
• Great is the enemy of good!
37. Keep the conversation going …..
• Reach out and connect with Ken
• //www.linkedin.com/in/kenfrance/
• @kfranceUS on twitter
• Ken.France@cprime.com
• Check out our upcoming webinars; read our blog, download whitepapers/case studies &
more:
• www.cprime.com/resources
• Share with us what topics you are interested in, ask us questions or give us feedback!
• learn@cprime.com
• Follow us on Social Media and share in the conversation & keep updated on thought
leadership, events & more.
• www.linkedin.com/company/cprime-inc
• @CprimeInc on Twitter