Agile Rehab: Engineering for Improved Delivery

We had problems: a giant legacy system, nightmarish installs every few months, and our chosen Agile scaling framework wasn’t making it better. In this talk I’ll cover how we replaced Agile process with engineering, moved from quarterly to daily delivery, and enabled teams to get the feedback they needed to deliver the right things at the right time with predictability, less drama, and more joy. Join me for recommendations for teams and for broader value stream improvements that work in every context.

Speaker

Bryan Finster

Distinguished Engineer @Defense Unicorns

I’m a passionate advocate for continuous delivery with over two decades of experience building and operating mission-critical systems for very large enterprises. I understand from experience that solving the problems required to continuously deliver value improves outcomes for the end-users, the organization, and the people doing the work.

I currently work for Defense Unicorns helping to solve some of the hardest software supply chain problems.

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Date

Wednesday Jun 14 / 10:35AM EDT ( 50 minutes )

Location

Salon E

Topics

DevOps in Practice Team Topologies Patterns for Scale

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