30 & 31 July 2020, Online Time: 10:30 - 16:30 CEST | 09:30 - 15:30 BST | 14:00 - 20:00 IST Conference Partners Headline Sponsor Media Partners www.unicom.co.uk 30 & 31 July 2020 Online 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. www.unicom.co.uk 30 & 31 July 2020 Online 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. www.unicom.co.uk 30 & 31 July 2020 Online Programme 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 www.unicom.co.uk 30 & 31 July 2020 Online Programme 10:05 DevSecOps Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Chief Technology Officer, Indium More & more applications are developed & deployed on the ‘Cloud’. Governance & compliance