Speaker
Abstract
Agile practices have empirically shown to increase adaptability, reduce lead times, reduce cost, increase quality, and increase employee morale for small software application teams. Scaled Agile expanded these benefits beyond teams to release trains and solution trains with thousands of people. I will leverage 26 years’ experience building safety-critical cyber-physical systems from submarines to satellites at Lockheed Martin as a senior technical fellow to explain why there is a need to expand these benefits to large scale, safety-critical cyber-physical systems with hardware, firmware, and software. We understand that there is a hesitation in highly regulated environments such as Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, and Energy due to concern that Agile practices conflict with safety regulations. I will present patterns of success in using Agile to build Cyber-Physical Systems that increase safety, security, reliability, and availability in large cyber-physical systems. My presentation demonstrates that there is an mission imperative to migrate from phase gate approached to Scaled Agile to increase safety for stakeholders. The bodies of knowledge that inform my presentation Scaled Agile, DevOps, Lean, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Digital Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing.
Topics
QCon New York 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Part of the track
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow - Surviving in the Post-agile Aftermath Hosted by Katharine Chajka Senior Product Manager @Planview Flow MethodologyFrom the same track
Wednesday 14 June
10:35 Salon E Session DevOps in Practice Agile Rehab: Engineering for Improved Delivery Bryan Finster Distinguished Engineer @Defense Unicorns We had problems: a giant legacy system, nightmarish installs every few months, and our chosen Agile scaling framework wasn’t making it better. 11:50 Salon E Session AI/ML Conversational Software Delivery: Leveraging AI to Identify and Address Inefficiencies in Your Delivery Lee Rehwinkel, Katharine Chajka Are you tired of the inefficiencies in your software development process? Despite advances in technology, many companies still struggle with a process that results in millions of dollars of waste each year. But what if there was a better way? 13:40 Williamsburg / Greenpoint Session Agile beyond software Success Patterns in for building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile Robin Yeman Systems Engineering PhD Candidate @Colorado State with over 28 Years in Software Engineering Agile practices have empirically shown to increase adaptability, reduce lead times, reduce cost, increase quality, and increase employee morale for small software application teams. Scaled Agile expanded these benefits beyond teams to release trains and solution trains with thousands of people. 14:55 Salon E Session Agile Practices Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation Sarah Aslanifar Principal Consultant @EqualExperts In a fast-paced, complex and uncertain digital business environment, organizations must evolve to survive. 16:10 Carroll Gardens Unconference Unconference: Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow Ben Linders Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement What is an unconference? An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions. 17:25 Salon E Session Teams Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations Emily Webber Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice, Organizational Consultant, Coach, Trainer and Speaker I’ve noticed an increasingly worrying trend in the industry of specialisation and silos at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes.