Event Type: GTIS Branch Event

Speaker: Charan Atreya

Title: DevOps: Harnessing agility to empower teams for rapidly changing systems - Leveraging DevOps/TechOps principles to enable teams to harness agility in evolving, innovating and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.

Synopsis:

I am suggesting that there are just two core principles you need to understand well, to guide you through your agile journey, either at a start-up or at scale.

1. The longer work stays inside your system, the more it costs you.

2. Frequent feedback during your work completion life-cycle improves quality and stability of deliverables.

 

Pause for a moment to reflect on these two statements. The implication of this is that you need to design your processes to ensure work stays inside your system the least amount of time while incorporating frequent feedback from your customers to improve quality. If your processes and organizational structure encourage functional silos and handoffs, your speed of delivery is going to be very slow indeed. And this is where the culture of DevOps comes in.

DevOps in not a new concept. Its core principles and mindset is a result of learnings from Lean at Toyota, and agile implementations over the last decade. The whole idea around DevOps is to develop processes around your organization’s culture to help reduce handoffs, automate processes, reduce errors – which in turn will positively impact your margins.

Learning Objectives:
At this session, you will:
1. Understand Lean principles and see process waste
2. Develop an agile mind-set
3. Challenge the status-quo

 

Charan Atreya is a transformation artist. Always curious, he has been experimenting with lean and agile processes to get things done for over 18 years by blending concepts from Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma. He has been called upon to deliver high risk and complex projects successfully while developing high performing and empowered teams. A certified PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a Change Agent, his career spans industries like software product development, finance, telecom, manufacturing, forestry and shipbuilding.

Charan is currently helping Scotiabank’s digital transformation efforts. A speaker at various PMI and other Lean events, he also shares his experiments on this site: www.kanbanway.com.

Agenda:
5:30 PM – Registration, Light snacks & refreshments, Networking
6:20 PM – Announcements & Introductions
6:30 PM – Speaker’s Presentation starts
7:55 PM – Thank You Note
8:00 PM – Event Closes

Fees: (subject to HST)
PMI-SOC Members (login prior to registering) - $17.70
Non-Members and Guests - $22.30

PDUs: 1.5 (1.0 Technical, 0.5 Leadership)

 

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