IBM DevOps Workshops at IBM InterConnect 2017
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The document outlines various DevOps workshops hosted by IBM, focusing on digital transformation and the implementation of DevOps practices across different roles and industries. It provides details on workshop topics, dates, and targeted audiences, highlighting the involvement of IBM experts and the benefits attendees will gain, such as free guides and interactive experiences. Participants are encouraged to register early due to limited seating and to add workshops to their agenda for the event.
IBM DevOps Workshops at IBM InterConnect 2017
- 1. Complimentary: IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide & DevOps for Dummies Series Register Now! bit.ly/ibmworkshops DevOps Workshops Learn how to jump-start your digital transformation Technical track & Management track
- 2. Who should attend Title When DevOps Management Workshops Executives, Managers, Senior Tech Influencers and Architects Apply Design Thinking to Accelerate DevOps Monday, Mar 20th 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Hold Your Horses or Let Them Run Wild? A Financial Institution’s DevOps Journey Tuesday, Mar 21st 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Get on the Bandwagon for Digital Transformation with DevOps Tuesday, Mar 21st 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Get Mapped – Lean Value Stream Mapping for DevOps Tuesday, Mar 21st 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm DevOps Technical Workshops Mid-level Managers and Senior influencers (Architects, Developers, QA Leads, etc.) Continuous Delivery of Software Innovation in Today's Complex Multi- Speed IT World Wednesday, Mar 22nd 8:30 am – 10:00 am Get a SAFe® Agile Release Train Up & Running in an Hour Wednesday, Mar 22nd 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Simplify DevOps Transformation with IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery and Garage Method Wednesday, Mar 22nd 1:00 pm -2:30 pm Mainframe DevOps: Managing the Cultural Divide Wednesday, Mar 22nd 3:00 pm -4:30 pm Managing Multi-Cloud Environment with Ease Thursday, Mar 23rd 8:30 am – 10:00 am Shift Application Performance Management Left in the DevOps Lifecycle Thursday, Mar 23rd 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Register Now! bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 3. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Apply Design Thinking to Accelerate DevOps Monday, Mar 20th | 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm (#7007) Reef Ballroom D Design Thinking is a powerful approach to innovation and brand differentiation that is focused on creating positive user experiences. With Design Thinking, teams conceptualize, design, refine and prioritize features that will delight their customers. Join IBM experts and clients in an interactive Design Thinking workshop and learn how the Bluemix Garage Method can help you incorporate Design Thinking into your DevOps process. • Create storyboards to iterate and communicate ideas visually by telling user - centric stories • Build empathy maps to rapidly put your team in the user’s shoes and align on pains and gains • Experience how ideation can generate breakthrough ideas Executives, Managers, Senior Tech Influencers and Architects SIGN-UP NOW Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Sarah Plantenberg Senior UX Designer and Lead, Worldwide IBM Bluemix Garages Chris Lazzaro STSM, Cloud DevOps & Garage Method Lead Architect Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide
- 4. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Hold Your Horses or Let Them Run Wild? A Financial Institution’s DevOps Journey Tuesday, Mar 21st | 11:30 am - 01:00 pm (#7004) Reef Ballroom D To meet the FinTech challenge, incumbent financial institutions are rapidly adopting lean, agile and DevOps practices to develop and deliver products and services. However, widespread adoption of these practices remains a challenge due to organizational silos, regulatory pressures, inflexible heritage systems and the like. Join IBM Financial services experts and clients to understand how traditional organizations are rethinking foundational processes, technologies, and culture to evolve and build a robust FinTech-like ecosystem to accelerate innovation. David K Zimmerman Global Solutions Executive and Worldwide Cloud Leader, IBM Global Banking & Financial Markets • Understand the relevance of DevOps within the FSS landscape in terms of both innovation (e.g. digital) and optimization (e.g. removing waste) • Hear case studies of other organizations that have succeeded with DevOps, the implications on people, process and technology, and the benefits realized • Understand how to start your own DevOps journey and how to quantify the value it will bring Executives, Managers, Senior Tech Influencers and Architects SIGN-UP NOW Peter Eeles Executive IT Architect, IBM Hybrid Cloud IBM Cloud Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 5. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Get on the Bandwagon for Digital Transformation with DevOps Tuesday, Mar 21st | 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm (#7005) Reef Ballroom D DevOps is hot and plenty of success stories testify to its effectiveness in organizations of any size, industry, or level of IT maturity. Understand the role of DevOps as a digital transformation enabler that leads organizations on the road to maximizing productivity and innovation at enterprise-scale. Join IBM experts and clients in this dynamic workshop that uses interactive exercises to teach you how to assess your own organization’s readiness for DevOps and how to identify next steps in your journey to Digital Transformation. • Learn how DevOps can help you transition from a traditional to a digital environment • Discuss real experiences in transforming large organizations for increased speed and quality using DevOps • Begin an assessment of your organization's DevOps readiness and potential paths to improving innovation velocity Executives, Managers, Senior Tech Influencers and Architects SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Sanjeev Sharma IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO, DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 6. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Get Mapped – Lean Value Stream Mapping for DevOps Tuesday, Mar 21st | 04:00 pm – 5:30 pm (#7006) Reef Ballroom D Transformation in technology has made customer experience a fundamental expectation, making software delivery speed crucial for organizations. Value stream mapping helps the entire organization see where the biggest bottlenecks are and how they negatively affect delivering value to customers. It is a crucial step in assessing an organization’s DevOps capability. Join IBM experts and clients in a value stream mapping exercise to identify waste, reduce cycle times, and implement continuous process improvement for a seamless DevOps adoption. • Discuss real experiences and industry best- practices in successfully transforming large organizations for increased speed and quality using a DevOps approach • Begin an assessment designed to illustrate your organization's readiness and potential paths to improving innovation velocity Executives, Managers, Senior Tech Influencers and Architects SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Mustafa Kapadia IBM North America DevOps Service Line Leader Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 7. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Continuous Delivery of Software Innovation in Today's Complex Multi-Speed IT World Wednesday, Mar 22nd | 8:30 am – 10:00 am (#7008) Reef Ballroom D Innovating in today’s world of complex applications is a daunting task for even the most seasoned release engineer. Error-prone, manual processes run on a variety of technologies and platforms often lead to delays in delivery. The time has come to review existing practices, work towards eliminating bottlenecks, and finding new ways to achieve operational efficiency. Join IBM experts and clients in this interactive technical workshop on a journey to unleash your delivery potential. • Identify which bottlenecks offer opportunity for improvement and which are merely distractions • Find the business value in improving IT process for your organization • Witness the implementation of best practices and deployment of simple application changes to existing systems Technical audience - Mid-level Managers and Senior influencers (Architects, Developers, QA Leads, etc.) SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Al Wagner Executive Solution Architect, BVA, Cost Benefit Analysis Eric Minick Executive IT Specialist, Solution Architect, Enterprise Scaled Agile (SAFe) & DevOps Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 8. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Get a SAFe® Agile Release Train Up and Running in an Hour Wednesday, Mar 22nd | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (#7013) Reef Ballroom D Many large organizations still struggle when it comes to scaling their agile implementations beyond a few local teams. Join IBM experts and clients in this interactive DevOps technical workshop to learn how to get a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) agile release train up and running in an hour. Share ideas, collaborate, and discover SAFe tools and training to adopt lean and agile principles at enterprise scale. • Understand how agile and lean applies to your complex, regulated organization • Learn how specific challenges were overcome in real enterprise organizations • Learn to “design” your SAFe project and then how to leverage tools to support it • Understand how to get started with your own recipe for success Technical audience - Mid-level Managers and Senior influencers (Architects, Developers, QA Leads, etc.) SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Amy Silberbauer Executive IT Specialist, Solution Architect, Enterprise Scaled Agile (SAFe) & DevOps Bhawana Gupta WW Lead - CLM-IT, Agile and SAFe, IBM Cloud Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 9. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Simplify DevOps Transformation with IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery and Garage Method Wednesday, Mar 22nd | 1:00 pm -2:30 pm (#7009) Reef Ballroom D IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery is an integrated set of tools to build, deploy and manage your apps. It’s a new service that leverages Bluemix Garage Method for DevOps Transformation to enable continuous delivery of cloud applications. The combination of methods, toolchains, and delivery pipelines give development teams an enterprise-ready practice for DevOps on Bluemix. Join IBM experts and clients in an interactive technical workshop to learn how to design, configure and create a DevOps toolchain that includes tools like GitHub, PagerDuty, Slack, and Sauce Labs for team collaboration, planning, source code management, and testing. • Bluemix Garage Method embodies the best practices for DevOps transformation • There is a powerful synergy when your DevOps tools and methods are aligned • Hands on with BCD: Follow along with your laptop or watch the group demo Technical audience - Mid-level Managers and Senior influencers (Architects, Developers, QA Leads, etc.) SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Chris Lazzaro STSM, Cloud DevOps & Garage Method Lead Architect Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Michael Elder IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Developer, UrbanCode & Hybrid Cloud DevOps Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 10. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Mainframe DevOps: Managing the Cultural Divide Wednesday, Mar 22nd | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm (#7010) Reef Ballroom D Enterprises need to accelerate innovation while ensuring the stability, security and reliability of core IT systems. While systems of engagement demand speed, agility and experimentation, business-critical systems of record face the same challenges PLUS the challenges of governance and predictability. Join IBM experts and clients in this interactive technical workshop to learn how to adopt DevOps practices to speed mainframe development and delivery without jeopardizing the stability, security and reliability of critical systems that span mobile devices to mainframes. • Learn how mainframe development can be part of the overall organizational transformation to DevOps • Learn how to get started on the transformation • Learn how modern development practices provide faster delivery while reducing risk Technical audience - Mid-level Managers and Senior influencers (Architects, Developers, QA Leads, etc.) SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Rosalind Radcliffe IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for CLM and DevOps, Member of the Academy of Technology Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 11. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Managing Multi-Cloud Environment with Ease Thursday, Mar 23rd | 8:30 am – 10:00 am (#7012) Reef Ballroom D Cloud portfolios within enterprises are expanding and driving the need for cloud management platforms that can manage multi-cloud environment without losing the visibility, governance, or operational control the IT teams require per the business need. Join IBM experts as they provide hands-on experience to monitor, manage, and optimize workloads in a multi-cloud environment. • Learn how to manage multi-cloud environments using a single agnostic tool regardless of the cloud provider • Learn how to automate your cloud by selecting from a catalog of Enterprise-class pre-built patterns or create your own using your favorite tools • Learn how to create policy-based tasks ensuring corporate governance Technical audience - Mid-level Managers and Senior influencers (Architects, Developers, QA Leads, etc.) SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Jose Ortiz Lead Architect Cloud Automation Manager, IBM Cloud Shajeer K Mohammed Architect - IBM Cloud Orchestrator, IBM Cloud Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 12. Who should participate Workshop facilitator Workshop objectives Shift Application Performance Management Left in the DevOps Lifecycle Thursday, Mar 23rd | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (#7011) Reef Ballroom D Embracing an Ops-mindset early in your software delivery process helps you reduce cycle times from months to hours, but you must also ensure an engaging user experience. Join IBM experts and clients in an interactive workshop to understand why you need to shift Application Performance Management left in your DevOps lifecycle to deliver a more reliable service with better insights, faster incident resolution and visibility into all monitoring data. • Learn how to leverage dev lifecycle to simplify the introduction of application performance management • Identify key APM capabilities to use early in the dev cycle • Identify key value propositions where APM is going to produce ROI Technical audience - Mid-level Managers and Senior influencers (Architects, Developers, QA Leads, etc.) SIGN-UP NOW Limited Seating: To ensure that you have a seat please add this workshop to your InterConnect agenda. Arun Biligiri Offering Management - Application Insights IBM Cloud Attendees will receive Complimentary DevOps for Dummies Series with a copy of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops
- 13. Allan Wagner Al Wagner is currently a Technical Evangelist with IBM, driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions with a specific focus on continuous deployment and testing within the larger DevOps topic. In his twenty years of practical IT field experience, Al has assisted, supported, mentored, and enabled teams to solve their IT application infrastructure, development, implementation, and operations challenges. In addition to being a frequent speaker on adopting a DevOps approach to software delivery, Al has co-authored the IBM Application Release and Deployment for Dummies book, IBM Service Virtualization for Dummies book, and authored numerous papers on continuous testing and test automation.. Amy Silberbauer Amy is a Solution Architect charged with the definition and delivery of the Enterprise Scaled Agile and IBM DevOps Plan solutions and strategy for the IBM Systems – Application Platform line of business. She is a recognized subject matter expert on scaled agile and software development lifecycle solutions, including enterprise modernization, SOA and collaborative DevOps. She has been with IBM for 28 years and has two decades of software development experience as an engineer, architect and manager. She is a certified SAFe® Program Consultant experienced in leading and consulting on multiple internal and external SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework®) transformations. Arun Biligiri Arun Biligiri is the leader of the Application Performance Management Offering Management team at IBM. Arun has over 20 years of experience in technology in various different roles including entrepreneurial, development, product management and sales engineering. He has worked closely with innovative enterprises and has extensive experience in addressing cloud, analytics needs in efficiently managing their data centers and clouds. He has an MBA from the Wharton School, and MS from the University of California, Berkeley. Bhawana Gupta Bhawana is an expert in the area of Rational Unified Process, Rational Requirements Management and Architecture Management. She has consulted many software development delivery teams in adopting Rational tools and methods. As a part of productivity increasing measures across teams, she has implemented best practices for various types of projects. Her experience ranges from supporting teams with RFP's, pilot projects for Rational tool adoption and helping teams rollout a complete tool implementation engagement. Christopher Lazzaro Chris is a lead architect, building tools that enable developer productivity and operational excellence in IBM Cloud. He strives to enable customers to make the digital transformation to the cloud with DevOps tools, standards, practices, and the ecosystem needed to innovate faster than their competition. Chris began his career with IBM Tivoli in 1998, building systems management tools, and he has helped transition those capabilities into SaaS and cloud-native operations tools. With a focus on innovative, leading-edge solutions, he has obtained recognition as an IBM master inventor.
- 14. David K Zimmerman Dave Zimmerman is IBM’s Global Solutions Executive & Worldwide Cloud Leader for Banking & Financial Markets. He specializes in business model transformation to help clients better compete and grow. He is accountable for IBM’s Global Cloud strategy, industry solutions offerings, clients’ support and partner development. Dave’s previous leadership roles included leading IBM’s Worldwide Core Banking business and Global Vice President at Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young. Dave has over 20-years delivery and engagement experience developed by working with clients on three continents. Eric Minick Eric Minick is a Technical Evangelist. He joined IBM through its acquisition of UrbanCode. He has spent the last more than ten years helping organizations – large and small – adopt continuous integration, delivery and now –DevOps. He is a frequent speaker on the topic, and co-authored Application Release and Deployment For Dummies. Prior to consulting, Eric was a developer, test automation engineer and support engineer, and has contributed to multiple generations of UrbanCode products. . Jose Ortiz Jose Ortiz works as a Senior Technical Staff Member and Software Architect in IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Business Unit. He is currently helping to develop and evolve the new Cloud Automation Manager offering. Previously, Jose spent 10 years as an Architect/Developer IBM, leading solutions around virtualization and cloud enablement in products like WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance, IBM Workload Deployment and PureApplication System. Jose also help with client enablement worried to use and integrate those products. He is also a frequent conference speaker. Originally from Puerto Rico, he now works and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Michael Elder Michael is the IBM Distinguished Engineer for Continuous Delivery. Michael holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Furman University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has numerous awarded patents and has been honored with two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. His passions include solving customer problems to enable them to provide better experiences for their users. Mustafa Kapadia Mustafa is the Service Line Leader for IBM’s DevOps practice, a business advisory practice focused on helping large enterprises transform their software & application delivery. He has over 17+ years of experience in the tech. space, both as a service provider and a management consultant. His expertise is in DevOps, cloud, lean, application development, outsourcing, offshoring etc. and has published several articles on DevOps. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area, is an avid blogger (when time permits), a speaker, and advisor to start ups.
- 15. Peter Eeles Peter is an Executive IT Architect, IBM Hybrid Cloud, where he helps organizations improve their IT delivery capability in order to drive tangible business value. He has a particular interest in the adoption of Architecture, Agile, DevOps and Cloud as innovation enablers. In the IT industry since 1985, Peter comes from a delivery background and was previously Chief Architect of IBM Rational’s Worldwide Solution Delivery organization where he led many large-scale transformations in a variety of industries. Peter has written many papers and several books, including “The Process of Software Architecting” (2009), “Building J2EE Applications with the Rational Unified Process” (2002), and “Building Business Objects” (1998). He runs his own website at www.architecting.co.uk.. Rosalind Radcliffe Rosalind is a Distinguished Engineer within the IBM Rational organization. She is Chief Architect for CLM and DevOps. She is responsible for driving the DevOps for multi-platform architecture. This includes System z and Power system. In addition she is responsible for the architecture for the Collaborative Management capability for Enterprise solutions. This includes UrbanCode Deploy and Rational Team Concert's support for standard Mainframe development activities. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Master Inventor. Prior to Rational, she was in Tivoli responsible for the SOA Management Strategy for IBM. Sanjeev Sharma Sanjeev is CTO and Distinguished Engineer for DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption in IBM Cloud Unit. He is a 20-year veteran of the software industry with expertise in DevOps, Mobile Development and UX, Lean and Agile Transformation, Application Lifecycle Management and Software Supply Chains. He is a DevOps Thought Leader at IBM and speaks regularly at conferences. He has written several papers and is the author of the DevOps for Dummies book. Sarah Plantenberg Sarah is a senior user experience designer located in San Francisco, California, where she has designed for a broad range of clients, from start-ups to enterprises. Leveraging her cognitive psychology and neuroscience background, Sarah's innovative designs have brought clients closer to their users and improved user satisfaction. As the builder and leader of design teams, Sarah's thought leadership has penetrated all levels of her clients' businesses. Sarah also helps her clients achieve better overall business results by helping them apply design thinking principles to team organization and development, organizational structure, and business transformation. Shajeer K Mohammed Shajeer works as the lead architect for the IBM Cloud Orchestrator and is also part of the Cloud Automation Manager Architecture team, He is currently working on developing the new Cloud Automation Manager offering. He has more than 20 years experience and has worked in Software development, Lab Services, Pre-Sales and Consulting roles. His core area of specialties are on Cloud Management platforms, Systems and Service Management and Application Performance Management solutions.
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