Configuration Management and the Cloud

There is a considerable hype about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on humanity. For some, it is the best thing since sliced bread, bringing eternal leisure and world peace; for others, it is doomsday accelerated, where humanity will either become extinct and machines take over the world or it becomes slaves to the robots.

In this presentation, we will cover an overview of what AI’s capabilities are today, where it may lead us, and what we need to take into consideration in service management of AI. Furthermore, we will present a service management model that shows realistic perspectives on what AI’s capabilities can and cannot be. This leads to conclusions about whether AI is a threat to humanity or not.

This is a rescheduled webcast due to technical issues with the first attempt.

In this presentation, we break down 7 key reasons why VSI will inherently improve the effectiveness of your QA and Testing practice. Inspired by Matt Angerer’s trials and tribulations as a Program Testing Consultant for over 8 vertical markets and 10 end-to-end SAP implementations, this presentation is a no-nonsense action-packed roadmap to understanding VSI, but to also apply it immediately for lasting results.

Preparing functional test automation for Continuous Integration

Quality and Testing SIG Talk Series - Automation with Jenkins and Continuous Integration [Complete Edition]

This SIG talk features two Vivit Board members, Richard Bishop and Chris Trimper. They will share their expertise and knowledge about automation with Jenkins and Continuous Integration.

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Richard Bishop
Automating UFT, LoadRunner and Performance Center tests using Jenkins: Richard is a test specialist at Lloyds Banking Group in the UK and in recent years has helped test teams to adopt automated approaches to testing. In a shortened version of his recent presentation at the Micro Focus Universe conference in Monaco, Richard will demonstrate the use of Jenkins as an orchestrater for Micro Focus ADM tools including UFT, LoadRunner and Performance Center. There will be opportunities for Q&A and discussion of the approach that he has used.

Speaker: Chris Trimper
Preparing functional test automation for Continuous Integration

DT is altering the food chain! Is your ecosystem adapting fast enough?

Listen to real-world examples of how some companies are evolving and transforming at an incredible rate fueled by technologies that didn’t even exist a short while ago.

No sector or industry is immune or future proofed from what’s about to follow. Traditional big business and institutions are at risk of being displaced, becoming obsolete or made irrelevant.

The pace of change is accelerating exponentially; are you adapting fast enough?

What if - there was a new service management model that could help you tap into and leverage your current investments, methods and human capital to adapt more quickly.

What if - this new service management model was self-organizing, just-in-time, low entry cost, flexible and elastic?

What if - this new service management model inspired innovation, creativity and outside the box thinking?

Would it be worth the hearing about it?

This session is about how to optimize and transform IT Service Management in the digital age.

In 45 minutes we’ll cover: 
*How digital transformation is shaking things up
*How ITSM is evolving to manage services in the digital age.
*What’s VeriSM all about
*What’s the new Business/IT ecosystem
*What’s the new management mesh
*How does governance enable innovation
*How to pick up the pace
*How to learn more

What is digital transformation, how are companies going about accomplishing it and what does that mean for ITSM?

In this session ITSM Product Ambassador, Akshay Anand, discusses the role of ITIL in digital transformation initiatives. Akshay will reveal how you can leverage the ITIL 9 Guiding Principles to achieve success in your digital transformation.

Join this session to gain actionable insights and learn how you can get involved with upcoming ITIL content which will improve success for digital transformation at your business today.

Michelle Major-Goldsmith and Simon Dorst of Kinetic IT will discuss the role of VeriSM in digital transformation, and its relation to ITIL and other service management practices.

So much is being written (myself included!) about how ITSM helps an organization prepare and support digital transformation. But ITSM itself is going through digital transformation.

How will the way we approach and deliver ITSM change as a result?

Join me as I discuss “The Digital Transformation of ITSM”.

About Doug Tedder:
Doug Tedder is the principal of Tedder Consulting LLC, a Service Management and process improvement consultancy. Doug is a recognized thought leader who is equally adept in interactions from senior leadership to day-to-day practitioners. His attention to detail, industry knowledge, emotional intelligence, and the ability to “see the big picture” and make it actionable has resulted in a track record of success in transforming IT organizations into valued business partners.

Prior to starting his business, Doug spent over 25 years working in corporate IT organizations in a variety of local, regional, and global roles.
Doug holds numerous industry certifications in disciplines ranging from ITIL®, COBIT®, Lean IT, DevOps, KCS™, VeriSM™, and Organizational Change Management.

Doug is an author, blogger, and frequent speaker and contributor at local industry user group meetings, webinars, and national conventions. Doug is a member and former president of itSMF USA, a member of HDI, a contributing author to VeriSM™, and co-author of the VeriSM™ Pocket Guide. Follow Doug on Twitter (@dougtedder) or visit his website (dougtedder.com).

Service desks are closer to the customers than we can ever imagine. With self-service adoption on the rise and Service desks making it easy for their users to reach them, why do we still hear IT agents complaining users don’t raise tickets? Can we get the Service desk closer to the customers? What if the Service desk lives where the customers are already there?

This talk explores the possibility of approaching Service management with a selfless mindset focusing primarily on self-service and customers logging tickets with the service desk. A selfless approach takes a lot of effort but not without its benefits.

About Sanjeev NC;

Sanjeev is a Solution Architect helping Enterprise customers with their ITSM tool implementation. He’s an ITSM enthusiast with consulting, blogging & speaking experience and enjoys delivering content creatively through memes, comics and puns. He is currently on a mission to ensure every customer support interaction yields the best possible experience.

I remember when virtual or cloud became the scary marketing words for any Operations or Infrastructure or ITSM person. My role is going, my skills won’t be needed. Our processes will break. We can’t go that fast!!!

Now years later – we have seen that what we do underpins what the organisations gets when they adopt and adapt to cloud based services. Let’s see why this happened and discuss how we can continue to be the innovation side of technology just like we have been all along.

Join me, Daniel Breston, to discuss how ITSM is relevant in the world of cloud or fast technology services delivered by multiple suppliers or technologies.

About Daniel Breston;

Daniel is a Principal Consultant for Virtual Clarity leading the operating model practices incorporating DevOps, ITSM, Agile Ops and leanIT Leadership. Daniel is a frequent speaker for BrightTalk, the British Computer Society, SITS, HDI or other conferences. Daniel is also a contributor to the VeriSM and SIAM Body of Knowledge acts as a mentor or coach for leaders interested in getting the best from technology services.

Static application security testing (SAST) is the process of examining source code for security defects. SAST is one of many checks in an application security assurance program designed to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities early in the DevOps process. Integrating SAST tools into DevOps processes is critical to building a sustainable program. And automating these tools is also an important part of adoption, as it drives efficiency, consistency, and early detection.

If you have questions like these, and you’re concerned about integrating SAST tooling into your DevOps process, this session will offer actionable advice to automate security testing that supports DevOps velocity.

But DevOps practitioners looking to integrate SAST tools into the DevOps pipeline often have questions:

How do I manage false positives?
How do I triage the results?
What happens to new issues identified?
How can I use a tool in my DevOps pipeline?

DevOps! Curse or Cure for DT’s insatiable need for speed?

Many predict mass extinction of traditional jobs as we know them today as a result of digital transformation and disruption.
No sector or industry is immune or future proofed from what’s about to follow. Traditional businesses and institutions are at risk of being displaced, becoming obsolete or made irrelevant.

Listen to real-world examples of how some companies are evolving and transforming at an incredible rate fueled by management practices and technologies that didn’t even exist a short while ago.

The pace of change is accelerating exponentially; are you adapting fast enough?
What if – you could deploy software 46 times faster?
What if – you could recover 96 times faster from system downtime?
What if – you could deploy changes with 80% less failures?
Would it be worth the hearing about it?

This session is about how smart companies are deploying new business functionality in the digital age.

 In 45 minutes we’ll cover: 
* How digital transformation is shaking things up
* What’s DevOps all about
* How’s DevOps evolving in the digital age
* What are the key lessons learned so far
* What’s the new management practice TRIAD
* What are the killer automation Apps
* How to pick up the pace
* How to learn more

Does your organization move at the speed your business needs it to? Keeping up with the pace is a game of do or die and those that recognize the impact of DevOps on digital transformation, will be the ones left standing. Bringing together insights from practice experts, industry roundtable discussions and research on the state of DevOps, Splunk shares the secret to winning the DevOps game.

Join this session to:
- Find out how DevOps can make your IT team and overall business (work) harder, better, faster, stronger
- Discover what you need to benefit from DevOps (spoiler alert – you already have the key to its success!)
- Learn all about ditching meh-trics in favour of measurement that matters
- Hear how others are already experiencing the value of data-driven DevOps on their digital transformation journey

DevOps, Cloud, Digital, Digital transformation; all great marketing phrases. Overwhelmed yet? I remember before the internet. Yes, there was computing going on before then. Yes, we were dependent on IT and Yes we did market our IT capabilities even as a bank.

But the internet came and wow – life exploded. Call it digital or whatever term you want, the age of making technology a service and a servant is truly upon us and will probably never ever go away.

So is DevOps, the way of collaborating on the use of technology and introducing new services, the best thing ever? Well, it certainly has started a decade worth of conversation.

Let’s use this session to see why DevOps is the framework practice for the age of making use of the worldwide collaboration and communication network (internet) and how it will transform the way you lead and act technology services.