DevOps and Value Stream Flow

“COVID-19 created an opportunity to drive innovation and build a DevSecOps culture that emphasizes speed and agility while integrating security seamlessly throughout the software lifecycle”, according to DevProJournal. With the impact of the pandemic felt across all job departments and industries, it’s time we take a closer look at what these opportunities are and how they are influencing the 2021 cyber threat landscape.

Join us for episode 11 of Day-to-Day DevOps, where host Helen Beal and guests will share what DevSecOps and DevOps teams must know about DevSecOps in 2021. They’ll be discussing:

- Tips to create more open and communicative DevSecOps teams across the SDLC
- What threats teams need to be aware of to ensure that applications are protecting data, brands and customers
- How to effectively plan and embrace discipline by incorporating SAST tools into development processes
- Why teams must test like attackers, not defenders
- And more


Guests:
- Gemma Allen - Consulting Solutions Architect at Barracuda
- Ameet Naik - Director of Product Marketing at PerimeterX
- Ben Zilberman - Director of Product Marketing at Radware

ChatOps is defined by Atlassian as ‘a collaboration model that connects people, tools, process, and automation into a transparent workflow.' A term credited to GitHub, ChatOps has been changing the game of conversation-driven development by bringing DevOps teams into chat rooms to type commands for chatbots to execute.

Whether it’s a code deployment or a response to a security threat, configuring a chatbot to execute tasks traditionally assigned to humans has meant teams can now automate tasks and collaborate in real-time - a gift in an age of increased remote working and uncertain futures.

Join us for episode 11 of Day-To-Day DevOps where host Helen Beal and guests share everything you need to know about ChatOps, how to integrate it into your set-up and essential use cases. Topics of discussion will include:

- The benefits of visibility across who has done what and when
- Why combining automation and collaboration can be the key to sustained DevOps success
- How ChatOps enables DevOps and IT Teams to spend less time creating tickets and navigating them, and more time fixing real problems

Host:
Helen Beal - Chief Ambassador, DevOps Institute

Guests:
Anurag Sharma - Product Manager, Zensar Technologies Netherlands
Eric Maxwell - Solutions Architect, xMatters

The global big data market is projected to grow from USD 138.9 billion in 2020 to USD 229.4 billion by 2025. But with the data economy becoming ever more vast - and valuable - comes increasing pressure on companies to stay competitive by maintaining and managing complex data environments.

Born as a result of this, DataOps has been an emerging trend of 2020, advocating a more instinctive connection of people to data and giving them the tools to innovate and thrive in the digital economy. But how do businesses - and DevOps teams - embrace this emerging trend and make it workable, and scalable, for them?

Join episode 9 of Day-To-Day DevOps where we get to grips with DataOps and discuss questions including:

- What is DataOps and what problems is it trying to solve?
- How do we get DataOps up and running?
- What is the importance of individuals and interactions, as well as tools and processes, in DataOps?
- And more

Guest experts:
- Chris Bergh - Founder, DataKitchen
- Garima Bajpai - Executive Board Member, Capital Carbon Consulting
- Matthew Weaver - Consultancy Director, Objectivity

There is no doubt that an open, collaborative culture is crucial to DevOps success - and it’s something the industry prides itself on. But in August 2020, Forbes questioned whether it was time for DevOps culture to “have a reality check”.

In industry bible “The Phoenix Project”, Gene Kim illustrates that what really sets exceptional DevOps teams apart from merely ‘good’ ones is a commitment to continuous learning - about tools, processes and what really drives and empowers team members. Is embedding a commitment to continuous learning in DevOps teams the reality check Forbes called for?

Join us for episode 8 of Day-To-Day DevOps, where host Helen Beal and guest experts look at how a DevOps culture of openness, honesty and intrepidness - and the wider business - can be bolstered by dynamic, continuous approaches to learning.

Topics of discussion will include:
- Why a “growth mindset” as opposed to a “fixed mindset” can be the ‘secret sauce’ for an exceptional DevOps team
- How to make your DevOps team a welcoming space for learning
- The tangible and intangible benefits to the business of championing continuous learning

Guest experts:
- Stephen Walters - Solutions Architect, xMatters
- Darwin Sanoy - Senior Solutions Architect, Alliances at Gitlab
- Simone Jo Moore Service - Framework Mixologist & Human API

Enterprise use of AIOps and digital experience monitoring tools to monitor applications and infrastructure will rise from 5% in 2018 to 30% in 2023, according to Gartner. Is AIOps also in the future of DevOps?

Join episode 7 of Day-To-Day DevOps where host Helen Beal and guests explore this question and look at how AIOps is impacting visibility, observability and telemetry in DevOps.

Questions the panel will answer will include:
- How does AIOps help businesses scale, leaving DevOps teams free to concentrate on mission-critical tasks?
- How do DevOps engineers put machine learning tools to use? And with what results?
- How does AIOps help DevOps teams improve the customer experience and maximise business success?

Guest speakers:
Will Cappelli - Field CTO, Moogsoft
Casey Zandbergen - Head of Strategy at ITRS Group
Mark Woods - Director of Technology and Innovation at Splunk

Results from the RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report found that “Container use is up, and Kubernetes use is skyrocketing. The use of Docker containers continues to grow, with adoption increasing to 57 percent from 49 percent in 2018. Kubernetes achieving even faster growth, increasing from 27 percent to 48 percent adoption.”

With the increasing move to Kubernetes and beyond, it's essential that DevSecOps best practices are incorporated. Join episode 6 of Day-To-Days DevOps, where host Helen Beal will be chatting to guests from the world of DevSecOps, cloud, containers and Kubernetes about:

- How to shift left to a DevSecOps mindset
- What the best practices are to protect your Kubernetes environment without compromising agility
- Practical tips to overcoming the challenges of implementing DevSecOps in the cloud

Guests include:
Gemma Allen - Cloud Solutions Architect, Barracuda
Alan Murphy - Senior Product Manager, F5
Mark Peters - Lead Information Assurance/Security Engineer, Technica

A dojo is a term from martial arts that means “Place of the Way”. And according to Liatrio, ‘DevOps Dojos (Innovation Labs) lead to better products, more rapid deliveries, and higher team engagement – a whole new way of working.’ Tim Walker - ‘The Agile Tester’ believes that ‘Building a DevOps dojo might be the difference between a legacy company staying in business and being overcome by teams who have “technology birthrights” and delivering outcomes to its customers at a rate and quality that has heretofore been impossible to even comprehend.’

Sounds great - but how do they actually work, and how can companies make them a reality?

Join us for Episode 5 of Day-To-Day DevOps where we explore the practical aspects of DevOps Dojos, and discuss how to measure ROI and contribution.

Host:
Helen Beal - Chief Ambassador - DevOps Institute

Guests:
Bryan Finster - Walmart DevOps Dojo
Eric Chapman - DevOps Consultant, Liatrio
Shaaron Alvares - Sr. Agile & DevOps Transformation Coach, T-Mobile

'Taking care of the technology side of the continuous delivery equation is nothing compared to getting the people part of it right', says Computer Weekly.

Join us for episode 4 of Day-to-Day DevOps, where Helen Beal and guests take a closer look at the 'people part', and explore what it really means to be a human in DevOps.

From discussing best practices for establishing a truly collaborative, empathetic and successful environment, to sharing tips to overcome the inevitable friction and conflict that will arise, this month's episode will look at:

- How to ensure the business understands the need for a supportive and united culture
- How to avoid burnout and why work-life balance in the DevOps team matters to business success
- Real-world examples of companies and teams that have 'done DevOps right'

Host:
Helen Beal - Chief Ambassador, DevOps Institute

Panellists:
Matt Saunders - Head of DevOps, Adapatvist
Jayne Groll - CEO, DevOps Institute
Terry Brennan - Managing Director, Orasi Software

Why should DevOps teams use Value Stream Mapping? Join Helen Beal and guests in Episode 3 of Day-to-Day DevOps to hear why.

From providing greater context and clarity with data and visuals, to creating more accurate traceability throughout the entire SDLC and encouraging cross-functional collaboration, VSM and DevOps done right can lead to greater QA and release/operations and reveal real business benefits.

Helen will be joined by:

- Jeff Keyes - VP, Product - Plutora
- Steve Pereira - The Value Stream Guy
- Julian Fish - Director of Product Management, Micro Focus

Whilst some organizations believe that the SRE model can benefit DevOps teams, some prefer to embrace one or the other - even pitting the two methodologies up against each other.

Join us for episode 2 of Day-To-Day DevOps, where we take a closer look at why this may be, the challenges it causes, and what silver linings can emerge when both movements work together to enable automation and reliability.

Host Helen Beal, Chief Ambassador at the DevOps Institute, is joined this month by:

- Mark Rendell - Principal Director, Accenture
- Maya Ber Lerner - CTO, Quali
- Craig Pearson - Director, Creative Agile Partners

DevOps isn't a journey, it's a destination.

And with some saying that DevOps is starting to reach maturity, we think it's time to take a closer look at what DevOps means in 2020. Topics discussed and questions asked will include:

- How do you think DevOps is different now that when you first discovered it?
- What’s the biggest challenge you think organizations are facing in adopting DevOps practices today?
- Do you see AI replacing some of the roles in DevOps?
- How have you effectively coached senior management and grounds-up personnel in an enterprise on DevOps?
- With the COVID19 pandemic, how well do you think DevOps teams will collaborate?
- What do budgets look like when we do DevOps?


Join the inaugural episode of Day-To-Day DevOps with host Helen Beal and special guests:

- Savinder Puri - DevOps Evangelist at Zensar Technologies
- Marc Cluet - Technical Practice Lead for Nationwide Digital Accelerator and Organiser of London DevOps, DevSecOpsDays London and Doxelona
- Jamal Walsh - Senior Solutions Architect at the Very Group and DevOps Institute Ambassador