Please note:
This is a Wednesday evening meeting instead of our typical fourth
Thursday meeting. We will be in the 8-bit Lounge Orange 4 Use the West
Entrance. From US-71, take the bannister exit and turn right into Marion Park
Drive to get to the west entrance.
If you plan on
attending please go to www.agilekc.org to
register so we can provide our sponsor with an accurate count for dinner.
Date\Time\Location:
6:30 - 9:00 PM CDT Wednesday June 25, 2014
Cerner Innovations Campus
10236 Marion Park Drive
Kansas City MO
64137
Title:
Is it a Dev problem? Is it an Ops problem? No, it’s a DevOps
problem!
Summary:
“It
worked fine in Dev, it must be an operations issue”; how many times have you
heard this phrase? In organizations, developing large scale applications,
development and operations are generally two independent entities, with
independent processes and priorities, creating a culture where they might be
working against each other. In most cases, the root cause is not in development
or operations, but in both; where Dev teams do not understand how their code is
deployed or run in production and Ops team lacking the knowledge around the
design or technical limitations of the applications. The preventive action in
this scenario is not simply a process change, but a cultural shift that needs
to occur in the organization where both Dev and Ops teams believe in DevOps,
move out of their comfort zones and work as one. This requires Dev to change
their definition of done from simply releasing and throwing it over the wall to
operations, to deploying and running the code and Ops teams extending their
efforts to contribute to development reviews and automating deployment steps.
It also requires a change by leadership to rethink their planning to work
together. This session will walk through what your journey will look like and
changes you can implement incrementally to move to a DevOps culture.
Speaker
Bio:
Shahzad
Zafar is a Technical Project Manager, ScrumMaster and a Manager at Cerner
Corporation. Shahzad is also an Agile Coach at Cerner, facilitates the Agile
Bootcamp and has been leading Agile development teams since 2009.
Shahzad
has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
in 2005 and also received his Masters in Business Administration from the
University of Kansas in 2009. He joined Cerner in 2005 as a software developer,
working on C++ and Java. He got the benefit of seeing projects being run in a
waterfall methodology before transitioning to Agile development. As a
ScrumMaster, he has worked with different teams and in different team
environments. As an Agile Champion and Coach, Shahzad gets the opportunity to
work with other teams to offer support and guidance to setup productive and
successful teams by leveraging Agile methodologies.
Currently,
Shahzad is working with teams building Cloud Services and is managing the
overall project plan and deployments for the Cloud Services team. He is also
involved in continuously improving the development and operations processes, to
enable DevOps within the organization.
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