Agile + DevOps West 2019

PRESENTATIONS

How to Avoid Automation Framework Sinkholes

Test automation frameworks are constantly plagued by runaway costs and huge codebases that become maintenance nightmares. Successful automation frameworks are best defined under the “keep it simple, stupid” philosophy—KISS!
Laura Keaton
How to Prevent Catastrophic Doom on Your Next Federal DevOps Project

Trying to achieve real continuous deployments into production is hard for everyone, but it’s especially hard for highly regulated or government projects. 
Ryan Kenney
Hunting Sasquatch: Finding Intermittent Issues Using Periodic Automation

In pop culture, Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) is an ape-like creature infrequently seen in the Pacific Northwest of North America—if he even exists.
Paul Grizzaffi
Iterative versus Incremental: How Your Backlog Makes or Breaks Agility

Agile is an incremental and iterative approach to delivering value to our customers. But too often, we assume that both approaches are fundamentally equivalent.
Mathias Eifert
Lightning Strikes the Keynotes

Lightning Talks consist of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation. Some of the best-known experts will step up to the podium and give you their best shot of lightning. Get multiple keynote presentations for the price of one—and have some fun at the same time.
Nine Incredible Speakers
Making the Jump from DevOps to DevSecOps

Organizations are moving to DevOps to build and deploy software more rapidly. But as they break down organizational silos to bring together testing, development, and operations, they often avoid or exclude security in their transformational efforts.
Alan Crouch
Mobbing, Pairing, Soloing, and Pipe Fires: A Personal History of Collaboration

Pair programming: the practice you love to hate! Twenty years after being introduced as part of Extreme Programming, the collaborative practice is still a thing. And if you thought pairing was nuts, now there's mobbing, where the entire team works together on one thing at a time.
Jeff Langr
Nontechnical Managers Leading Technical Teams

Technology is complicated and changes every day. Even leaders with a technical background and deep understanding of tools and processes have trouble keeping up, and it’s virtually impossible to be an expert on every single aspect of a product.
Victoria Guido
People Operations in a Teal Organization: Tools and Techniques from a Real Journey

The Lithespeed team first read Frederic Laloux's "Reinventing Organizations” in 2015. We immediately said ‘Hell yes, we are doing this - we should never work any other way!’ 
Amanda Geary
Postmodern Testing

If you want to speed up delivery while maintaining quality, this is the talk for you. Jason’s move from Microsoft to Google’s agile and DevOps-driven world was a shock. 
Jason Arbon

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