Agile Testing Devops Showcase Brochure 30-31 July 2020 2 July

30 & 31 July 2020, Online

Time: 10:30 - 16:30 CEST | 09:30 - 15:30 BST | 14:00 - 20:00 IST

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Background

Agile, Testing and DevOps: Are they a Separate conversation or a progression of capability?

DevOps, Testing and Agile have shared environments that facilitate working together. Spurred by greater demand for excellence, these three methods are more than simply adopting new tools and processes. The synergy involves building an evolving and a stable Continuous Integration (CI) Infrastructure, as well as an automated pipeline that moves deliverables from development to production to meet users’ expectations. They can work together, and the entire build process should be transparent, and it should enable and support development and operations. This transformation depends on: significant changes in culture; roles and responsibilities; team structure; tools and processes.

With the uncertainty over the complete lifting of the lockdown, at UNICOM, we have devised a virtual event of the previously published conference and have spread out the programme over two days of around four hours each day. Please see the detailed programme.

Call for Participation

We are inviting speakers – thought leaders, subject experts and start up entrepreneurs – to share their knowledge and enthusiasm about their work and their vision in the field of Agile, Testing and DevOps. We have listed some relevant topics in the “Background” section. These are suggestions only. Please suggest a topic that suits the day and your work.

We understand that successful projects are written up as “White Papers”. Please share these with us. But projects that did not achieve their targets – “Black Papers” – are of interest to us too. They can be a very important topics of discussion / panels that you can present. Talk to us about both, we welcome your input.

Please complete the speaker’s response form and submit a proposal to present at this event.

Topics to be Covered

üAgile frameworks provide guidance for efficient operational software üAdopt a “build-and-run” teams concept üAutomation and SAFe üAgile and DevOps – moving with flow based awareness üTesting: “Measure twice, cut once” üContinuous Testing – running tests at each stage of s/w delivery pipeline. üImprove DevOps with SAFe üAutomating for improved flow üThe agile release train and continuous integration üScrum board Gamification üModern Software Testing üSustainable Test Automation üMob Programming üTeam leadership üIndividuals and interactions over process and tools üWorking software over comprehensive documentation üCustomer collaboration over contract negotiation üResponding to change over following a plan…… have been achieved and helped establishing a faster and practical way of getting things done.

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Programme DAY ONE - 30 JULY

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIMES IN THE PROGRAMME ARE IN BST TIME. ADD AN HOUR FOR CEST AND FOUR & HALF HOURS FOR IST.

30 JULY: CONFERENCE CHAIR: GILES LINDSAY, FOUNDER AND CEO AGILE DELTA

SESSION I

09:30 UNICOM’S INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME

09:35 CONFERENCE CHAIR’S SCENE SETTING, GILES LINDSAY, FOUNDER AND CEO AGILE DELTA

09:40 KEYNOTE: CRACKING THE CASE: HOW TO MIGRATE FROM MONOLITHS TO MICROSERVICES Andrew Chee, Senior Solutions Engineer, Lightstep Microservices migrations can be a challenge. What's the best approach to choosing your tech stack when splitting a monolith into a service-based architecture? What are the pros and cons of modern cloud infrastructure choices and reasons why you’d choose one over another? What monitoring solutions are available today and what are their strengths and weaknesses for maintaining, understanding and observing your new infrastructure?

10:00 SUSTAINABLE TEST AUTOMATION: FROM GARDEN TO ECOSYSTEM Anaïs van Asselt, Test Automation Engineer, deTesters Organizations invest in test automation to keep up with the pace in an Agile and DevOps world. Little do they realize that constant care is required to keep their gardens of automated tests green. Weeding and cultivating is necessary to maintain the added value of test automation. Why is this gardening so hard? Is it just a garden or is it more than that? Might it be a whole ecosystem with aspects that impact the approach of test automation?

10:20 SHORT DISCUSSION

10:25 SHIFT RIGHT TESTING – DIGITAL TWIN, DARK CANARY & CONTACT TRACING Jonathon Wright, CTO and Co-Founder, Digital Assured Shift Right testing means harnessing the power of analytics and autonomics to dynamically learn from the real world. Digital Experiences (DX) need to be extremely resilient in the face of unpredictable failure modes, work across a variety of endpoints, and process huge amounts of unstructured data. While continuous testing implementations help to address agility need, automation is typically driven by static rules using conventional scripting and orchestration techniques. Such techniques incur high maintenance overhead to keep updated relative to changing circumstances. The recent emergence of predictive analytics and cognitive engineering technologies (such as Dark Launching & Chaos Engineering) have opened the possibility to drive adaptive automation within testing to self-heal and self-configure based on changing situations in the real world.

10:50 BREAK AND SPONSORS’ EXHIBITION VIEWING

11:15 KEYNOTE: A TOUCH OF THE WILD: AVOID COMMODIFICATION RETURNING TO BASICS Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge

11:40 - 12:00 DISCUSSION WITH QUESTIONS FROM SLI.DO. Moderator: Jonathon Wright; Participants: Dave Snowden, Anaïs Van Asselt

12:20 - 13:00 BREAK AND EXHIBITORS’ BOOTH VIEWING

SESSION II

13:00 CASE STUDY: INDUSTRIAL AGE TO DIGITAL AGE - HOW TO LEAD DEVOPS TRANSFORMATION Arun Narayanaswamy, Director Engineering, Amadeus; Vikalp Kumar, Manager Development, Amadeus Labs This session will tell the story of how to transform from Legacy to Cloud, Waterfall to Agile, Ops to DevOps and what changes / pivots were need to enable digital transformation on an enterprise scale; from digitising, automating and cultural changes and how we deliver seamlessly to our users. We will describe how we formed new teams and capabilities, drove a new culture and established new ways of working and turned around a series of broken and disjointed initiatives, sharing the lessons we have learned and the challenges faced form driving digital transformation in one of the worlds leading travel company.

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13:20 SHORT DISCUSSION

13:25 SCRUM AND WHY IT IS APPLICABLE BROADER THAN JUST IT Steven Deneir, Professional Scrum Trainer & Professional Scrum Master III, Co-Learning Scrum, a framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. Even though nowhere it mentions IT, most people relate it just to software development. Because of its origin. Let’s discover how way broader the applicability is of this lightweight yet very powerful framework.

13:45 SHORT DISCUSSION

13:50 BREAK AND SPONSORS’ EXHIBITION VIEWING

14:10 ESSENTIAL FRAMEWORKS FOR AGILE & DEVOPS MATURITY Dr. Shankar Ramamoorthy, Head of Industry Interface, CMR Institute Of Technology Navratna ( 9 jewels ) of Agile Framework is first of its kind to assess organizations on Agile Maturity as there is no assessment framework like ISO/CMMI to assess Agile in the market. Dr Ramamoorthy will attempt to create process areas at five levels of Maturity. This model will be key in arriving at Agile Testing Maturity for organizations. Ashta Pradhan (8 Ministers)* of Devops Framework is first of its kind to asses Organization for DevOps Maturity as there is no current assessment framework like ISO/CMMI in the market. The author attempts to create Eight C s to assess organizations using score cards for self assessment. [*Ashta Pradhan – Wikipedia: Ashta Pradhan (literally, Modern council of ministers) was a system of ministerial delegation in Maratha empire. The council is credited with having implemented good governance practices in the Maratha heartland, as well as for the success of the military campaigns against the Mughal Empire.]

14:30 SHORT DISCUSSION

14:35 DISCUSSION WITH QUESTIONS FROM SLI.DO. Moderator: Jonathon Wright; Participants: Arun Narayanaswamy, Vikalp Kumar, Shankar Ramamoorthy, Steven Deneir;

15:00 END OF DAY ONE

DAY TWO - 31 JULY

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIMES IN THE PROGRAMME ARE IN BST TIME. ADD AN HOUR FOR CEST AND FOUR & HALF HOURS FOR IST.

31 JULY: CONFERENCE CHAIR: PAUL GERRARD, PRINCIPAL, GERRARD CONSULTING

SESSION III

09:30 CONFERENCE CHAIR’S SCENE SETTING, PAUL GERRARD, PRINCIPAL, GERRARD CONSULTING

09:40 LIVING DOCUMENTATION - THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE BDD RAINBOW Seb Rose, BDD Advocate, Smartbear Living Documentation is documentation that automatically notifies the team when it’s out-of-date or incorrect. And it comes for free when you follow the Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) approach. In this session we’ll explore what BDD is, the complementary relationship between BDD and Test Automation, and why every team should aspire to having Living Documentation. Disclaimer - no pixies, faeries, elves, or unicorns were used in the making of this presentation.

10:00 SHORT DISCUSSION

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10:05 DevSecOps Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Chief Technology Officer, Indium More & more applications are developed & deployed on the ‘Cloud’. Governance & compliance are getting tougher to meet as data privacy is one of the biggest concerns to customers world-wide. Vulnerabilities in applications have much bigger ramifications than ever before. Shift-left approach for Security is an ideal scenario to unearth any vulnerabilities early in the development cycle. Are you developing a secure application, is a more important question today than ever before! The presentation will detail the aspects on how to build a secure product right from the beginning -- Process, Governance & Tools. DevOps have automated several tasks and with Security into the gambit, DevSecOps is a good model for everyone to adopt.

10:25 SHORT DISCUSSION

10:30 BREAK AND SPONSORS’ EXHIBITION VIEWING

10:50 LEADERSHIP IN TESTING – THE NEW SKILLS IMPERATIVE Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting

11:10 SHORT DISCUSSION

11:15 INTEGRATING UX WITH DEVOPS Iwona Winiarska, Agile Delivery Manager, Automation Logic Identifying your users and user needs is crucial for any product or solution development. It’s particularly important for DevOps teams to understand who their users are and what value the teams are trying to deliver to meet their user needs. This talk delves into a concept of User Experience (UX) and how it can be applied within the Agile and DevOps environment. You’ll also learn a few useful techniques that will help you focus on your users and customers when delivering innovative DevOps solutions and transformations.

11:35 SHORT DISCUSSION

11:40 DISCUSSION WITH QUESTIONS FROM SLI.DO Moderator: Seb Rose; Participants: Ramesh Krishnamurthy; Paul Gerrard, Iwona Winarska

12:00 - 13:00 BREAK AND EXHIBITORS’ BOOTH VIEWING

SESSION IV

13:00 CLOSING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL GAP – BRIDGING THE WORLDS OF RISK-TAKING AND OPERATIONALISM IN LARGE ORGANISATIONS Dean Latchana, Consultant and Coach

13:20 SHORT DISCUSSION

13:25 DEVOPS IS ABOUT CULTURAL CHANGE…WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN? Guillermo Martinez, Head of DevOps, Accenture’s Liquid Studio NL We often hear DevOps is all about culture and mentality change, but it’s hard to explain what this change means. During this presentation we will go through common DevOps activities and explain how they relate to a change in the mentality.

13:45 SHORT DISCUSSION

13:50 COE MATURITY SELF ASSESSMENT Jorge Luis Castro Toribio, DevOps Program manager, Test Manager and Agile Coach, Everis Helping CoEs towards getting its goals and better return on investment through ingredients and examples about making a maturity self assessment. A CoE helps to optimize the organization or practice by centralizing resources with high-demand and unique knowledge or skills and streamlining their contributions across a wide range of areas and improve ROI through the identification and development of reusable assets

14:10 DISCUSSION WITH QUESTIONS FROM SLI.DO. Moderator: Guillermo Martinez; Participants: Dean Latchana

14:30 END OF CONFERENCE

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Speakers’ Profiles

ANAÏS VAN ASSELT Anaïs is a Test Automation Engineer and a DevOps enthusiast. She has almost 7 years of experience in several Agile/DevOps teams and coached teams with test automation. For Anaïs, test automation is not just a matter of automating tests, but a Way of Working that requires collaboration and discipline. She stands for a pragmatic approach, sustainable development and Bruce Lee Driven Development. Anaïs is convinced that the best results are achieved by applying the tools, methods and techniques that suit best in the situation.

STEVEN DENEIR I personally train over a hundred individuals a year in Scrum and agile concepts and practices, and serve multiple organisations in their agile adoption, facilitating change through hands-on workshops and practical advise. I am a Professional Scrum Trainer, one of the two in Belgium, and a Professional Scrum Master III who serves forward-thinking, technology-driven organisations to stay ahead of their competitors.

PAUL GERRARD Paul Gerrard is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. He has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them. Educated at the universities of Oxford and Imperial College London, he is a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited, the host of the UK Test Management Forum and a business coach for Enterprising Macclesfield.

RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY Ramesh has over 25 years of experience in the Information technology industry in both entrepreneurial and senior management roles. He is a thought leader in the Software Testing vertical having spent the past decade & half managing operations and delivery for customers across the globe spanning Software Quality Assurance & Testing services. Ramesh is currently the CTO of Indium Software and is responsible for Indium’s global solutions delivery, products, technology initiatives and pre-sales. Ramesh is also serving as President of Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Chapter, Chennai, a Carnegie Mellon University USA initiative. He was awarded TOP 100 CTOs of India in 2016 and more recently TOP 50 CTOs of India by India’s greatest.com

VIKALP KUMAR With close to 14 yrs of experience in driving technical vision on software engineering and product delivery to build high scale web applications. DevOps & Cloud enthusiast.

DEAN LATCHANA I advise and guide individuals and organisations to gain a new set of competencies so they can continuously re-optimise to an ever-changing business landscape. I co-develop change to remove organisational debt to create a more balanced focus for innovation. In order to achieve this, as a Business Agility Consultant, my role is to support business transformation programmes and develop new ways of working across departments. I teach departments, and coach & mentor individuals.

GILES LINDSAY Giles is a Technology Leader with over 25 years’ industry experience. He is an Enterprise Agile Consultant, as well as being a Fellow with the BCS (the Chartered Institute for IT) and a Fellow with the Institute of Analysts and Programmers. He’s a long-term Agilist and Enterprise Agile Coach. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Disciplined Agile Consortium.

GUILLERMO MARTINEZ Guillermo has more than 7 years of experience in Engineering Management, Product Delivery Management, and DevOps transformations. Thanks to his technical knowledge, innovation ambitions, passion for delivering results (get things done), and efficiency and optimization focus, he became the Head of DevOps in Accenture NL. He likes playing with technologies and learn new ones. Guillermo considers the time spent in non-sense discussions, politics, and building barriers inabilities innovation and taking advantage of new technologies. As the world is continuously changing and becoming more and more technology oriented, he believes we should learn how to deal with this never stopping evolution.

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Speakers’ Profiles

ARUN NARAYANASWAMY Director Engineering with a relentless focus on digital transformation with expertise in Cloud, DevOps and Agile. Arun has led multiple transformation programs for some of the worlds largest Enterprises in Banking, eCommerce and Travel domains.

DR. SHANKAR RAMAMOORTHY Dr Shankar Ramamoorthy is a TQM ( Total Quality Management) professional, who has spent much of his 29- odd years career managing change and improving software Quality Engineering efficiency through Data and Metrics driven Quality Management Systems. He is currently Professor at CMRIT , teaching Software Testing, Software Engineering and Digital Technologies to Engineering students . He also Heads the Industry Institute Connect interface at CMRIT. He is the creator of 500+ member strong Industry- Academia industry named Global IT Commune ( GIC) which aims to bridge the gap between Industry and Academia. This commune has conducted 17 conferences and 10 training programs on emerging technologies in the last five years.

SEB ROSE Consultant, coach, trainer, analyst, and developer for over 30 years. Seb has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from Architecture to Support, from BASIC to Ruby. He’s a BDD advocate with SmartBear, helping people integrate all three practices of BDD into their development process and ensuring that appropriate tool support is available. Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of the BDD Books series “Discovery” and “Formulation” (Leanpub), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly). He blogs at cucumber.io and tweets as @sebrose.

DAVE SNOWDEN Dave Snowden is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.

JORGE LUIS CASTRO TORIBIO With more than 12 years of progressive experience as Program Manager and QA Manager responsible for design, development, and delivery of global Agile & DevOps & QA & Testing Automation & Digital & Mobile & Cloud solutions to complement software development projects for innovation and day to day business – focused which could approximately save a quarter of million dollars annually in software development life cycle. Support and foster talent development and innovation through implement agile transformations and “Great people” culture.

IWONA WINIARSKA Iwona is an Agile Delivery Manager at Automation Logic working on Agile and DevOps transformation programmes in public and private sector. Iwona is experienced in digital and technology delivering complex global programmes and products across a range of industries: financial services, retail, media, technology, automotive and healthcare. Currently, her focus is agile delivery and governance so she helps the teams and organisations find better ways of working by using a variety of agile principles and techniques. While working at Government Digital Service, Iwona has supported cross-government transformation and the Agile Delivery Management Community. In addition, she helps to organise agile meetups within the DPML group which gives her a fresh perspective that she can regularly take into her work environment.

JONATHON WRIGHT Jonathon Wright is a strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist. He specializes in emerging technologies, innovation, and automation, and has more than 20 years of international commercial experience within global organizations. He is currently the CTO of Digital-Assured based in Oxford in the UK. Jonathon combines his extensive practical experience and leadership with insights into real-world adoption of Cognitive Engineering (Enterprise A.I. and AIOps). Thus, he is frequently in demand as a speaker at international conferences such as TEDx, Gartner, Oracle, AI Summit, ITWeb, EuroSTAR, STAREast, STARWest, UKSTAR, Guild Conferences, Swiss Testing Days, Unicom, DevOps Summit, TestExpo and Vivit Community (of which he is currently the president of the largest independent software community with over 70,000 members across 125 countries). Jonathon was the QA Lead for the COVID Safe Paths MIT project during the Coronavirus pandemic. He is also part of A.I. Alliance for the European Commission, a member of the review committee for the ISO-IEC 29119 part 11 for the “Testing of A.I. based systems” for the British Computer Society (BCS SIGiST). Jonathon is also the podcast host of the QA lead (based in Canada) and the author of several award-winning books and online-courses.

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