IDC UK & Ireland DevOps Conference Empowering DevOps

As software engineering teams scale quickly organizations must focus on the right tactics to manage, empower and drive growth at scale. Enabling software innovation and DevOps at scale requires effort and a continual learning mindset. There's no room for complacency as the competitive landscape is ever more software development driven. Organizations must use tactics that drive accuracy, repeatability, and transparency across dev and delivery teams to win. Today, 80% of large European organizations have adopted DevOps practices and methodologies, but only 10% excel in terms of accelerated performance and delivery cycles. The result - empowered DevOps is still more of a vision than a reality!  The motivation to scale capabilities is evident but there needs to be material progress.  

This keynote will discuss:

• The journey to empowered DevOps and how organizations can empower and enable teams with modern tools and architecture

• Accelerating cultural transformation: the challenge is not just legacy code but also rigid organizational designs and project management mindsets

• Key investment tactics and priorities — creating a road map to maximise DevOp at scale success

Over the last year and a half we have seen transformation and app dev programs dramatically accelerated. The burning question is – how can you speed up and scale up app dev cycles to keep up?

This presentation will show how simplifying and democratising access to data-ready environments can accelerate scenario creation and discovery and data catalogue creation. Learn how to provide a self service wrapper that is easy to use for humans and machines alike.
By simplifying and providing a unified self service access to data, with synchronisation, time-travel, sharing and replication built in, you can expose more up to date, secured data to more actors that feeds innovation and speed to value. Your automation goals also become much easier to achieve.

As businesses of all sizes look to accelerate their digital transformation, applications are the engines powering the digital economy.

Traditionally, businesses have bolted on, refined, added, and subtracted code to systems infrastructure. Building from this foundation was historically sensible, but it's now its hampering the rapid delivery of services

·       What is the current outlook for application services

·       How are they enabling organisations to adapt to new realities and hard-wire flexibility into their essence? 

·       https://www.nginx.com/empowering-agility/

Few would argue that team empowerment is not a critical ingredient in successful delivery at scale.  Nurturing that empowerment must surely be a deliberate activity that needs to resonate not just within the team itself but right throughout the organisation.  Achieving this in the right balance, especially against a backdrop of inertia, is ultimately a product of culture and leadership.

This Keynote will provide a perspective on:

- the importance of culture and leadership in setting the conditions for successful empowerment and hence delivery

- the need to challenge legacy mindsets which act as a barrier to transformation

- exploiting success as catalyst for growth at scale

For years, organizations have only automated about 20% of their total test suites, on average. A new survey conducted by Tricentis & TechWell shows that a major increase in test automation rates occurred in 2020 – along with a significant shift in the way testing is perceived.

Join us to learn how testing has changed, new approaches out there like contract tests, feature flags, release on demand, collaboration across teams, and the key insights that can help you accelerate your organization’s journey to DevOps and test automation maturity.

We will cover:

· How (and why) test automation reached a tipping point

· New approaches to testing

· How major shifts in the way we work have affected the role of testing, how testers spend their time, and more

Sumo Logic will provide an overview of how organizations are centralizing their security and observability with actionable insights for real time decisions making across DevSecOps. 

At Harness, we believe that every company should be able to deploy software at the speed and scale of tech leaders such as Apple, Netflix and Facebook. A modern software delivery platform enables any company to deliver a world-class experience for development teams. So, they can build, test and deploy code in governed cloud-native environments. 

In this session, Jim Hirschauer, will share our experiences with hundreds of DevOps and Engineering teams across the globe. He will highlight the most common challenges with software delivery, explore why automation matters and describe how you can empower DevOps and Engineering teams in order to delight your customers and outperform your competitors.