Event / Details

Lean+Agile 2018
Agile Engineering & DevOps

JOB FAIR
AWESOME CROWD
HIGH ENERGY
FUN EVENT

Get your gears turning.

From investigating the components of DevOps culture to deepening your Agile process adoption with Agile Engineering & Testing practices, we will learn, connect and get energized at Lean+Agile DC.

Speakers will share stories that shed light on their DevOps journeys while dispelling some of the common myths that surround DevOps adoption. Whether a team lead or executive, leave with new ideas and learnings to take back to your teams and organizations. Hear experience reports that touch upon key components of the continuous delivery pipeline, and how DevOps principles and practices have been applied to enable quicker, more predictable delivery of IT solutions with higher quality. Explore first-hand stories of how DevOps fosters deeper collaboration, communication and integration across organizational roles and silos.

This is a great event for both technical and non-technical folks as we’ll have sessions for everyone!

2018 Speakers /

Jason Valentino

Director, Systems Operations/Automation - Mobile Engineering at Capital One

Ramon Casillas

Vice President of Technology, Cvent

Carlos Rojas

Director Operations and Technology (O&T DevOps Tribe Leader), Fannie Mae

Jose Mingorance

Director of Technology (DevOps/Agile Engineering), Fannie Mae

Jeff Payne

CEO and Founder, Coveros

Anjali Leon

Principal Agile Coach and Consultant, Pragmatic Project Leadership

Simon Storm

Senior Director, Enterprise Applications

Jim Barclay

Enterprise Release Functional Lead Engineer, NGA

Scott Forbes

Director of Technical Program Management, Cvent

Ben Scott

Technical Manager and Technical Agile Coach, Ippon

Rachel Gaddis

Agile Coach, Ippon

Gabe Weaver

Chief Product Officer, Very

Schedule

7:30 - 8:00

Breakfast and Registration

08:00-08:15

Introductions and Kickoff

08:30-09:15

DevOps – A Change to Cultures, not Titles

The DevOps concept and its benefits tends to come naturally to small companies and startups. However, in larger organizations, adoption tends to flail against the company’s legacy culture, or

09:30-10:15

Effective Agile in Rapid Growth Environments

Agile, and the many frameworks available to scale, provide a lot of insight on how to run large software development projects. However, there is not a lot of literature,

11:30-12:15

Create Flow: Boost Creativity and Performance

Recall a time when you were so involved in an activity that you lost all sense of time? Were you more engaged from the creativity that emerged? Were you

12:15-1:15

Lunch

1:15-2:00

Just Say No to Wagile

Even though your team has good intentions of utilizing methodologies and practices that increase your project’s agility, more often than not, within weeks you’ve slipped back into old habits.