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ALIGNING DEVOPS TO BUSINESS GROWTH

14 AUGUST 2018 CROWNE PLAZA

AUCKLAND

Featuring expert insights into aligning DevOps to business strategy:

• Mobilising stakeholders

toward project completion

• Improving quality frameworks

across DevOps

• Testing in DevOps

• Considering enterprise agility

for IT teams

WITH PRESENTATIONS FROM: AIR NEW ZEALAND • EY • SPARK NZ • WESTPAC • BNZ

8.30 Registration and coffee

8.50 Opening remarks from the Chair

9.00 How automation can boost your DevOps productivity

• Assessing the level of automation that your DevOps function needs

• Creating process maps on automation that direct accountability on tasks

• Ensuring reduced fail rates and higher deployment frequency

Priyanka Tailor, Senior Manager, EY New Zealand

9.40 Tacking bureaucracy - Mobilising stakeholders to push projects to completion

• Reaching out beyond DevOps teams to understand their challenges and pain points

• Considering various personalities and temperaments within project teams

• Making sure your stakeholders understand what DevOps is trying to achieve

Pravin Mudaliar, Head of system integration, Spark NZ

10.20 Morning break

10.50 From DevOps to SecOps – Protecting project data and systems on DevOps cycles

• Aligning IT systems to tackle misconfigurations to infrastructure

• Continuous security to prevent data breaches or unauthorised access

• Aligning IT security strategy with DevOps strategy – key considerations

11.30 Including DevOps in the digital layer of business transformation

• Integrating continuous deployment and continuous integration into the DevOps cycle

• Using customer experience as the starting point for DevOps Design

• Constant vigilance and thinking ahead on business transformation projects

Dave Corlett, DevOps Manager, Westpac

12.10 Lunch break

DEVOPS IS NOT A FUNCTION, IT IS A CULTURE that thrives on collaboration, ease of project management and ensuring continuous seamless integration in an agile manner.

The 2018 NZ DevOps Conference is a forum for IT Managers to discuss emerging trends within DevOps and IT integration and how DevOps can add greater value to IT strategy.

Hear case studies and best practice insights into how New Zealand’s leading organisations are collaborating more innovatively to support DevOps.

WHO WILL BE THERE:

• DevOps Engineers

• Head of integration

• IT integration specialist

• IT Infrastructure teams

• Software developers

• Testers

• Business Analysts

1.10 Toward improving quality frameworks across the DevOps cycle

• Risk reduction and improving quality frameworks on the DevOps cycle

• Considering stakeholder inclusion and collaboration among cross-functional teams along the DevOps maturity model

• Tackling Enterprise change inertia and the legacy system restrictions

• Monitoring and alerting - making sure it ’s still working

Tim Dawson, Product manager – Loyalty Services, Air New Zealand

1.50 A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps

In this session Katrina will share a few thoughts from her book, A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps. She’ll introduce DevOps, share some common DevOps practices for testing during development, in production, and against infrastructure, then explain how and why DevOps might alter test strategy.

Katrina, Clockie, Head of Test Automation, BNZ

2.30 Enterprise agility – A myth or an inherent goal for IT teams?

• Assessing and mitigating cultural considerations when moving away from a legacy mindset

• Collaborating with waterfall teams on continuous integration and continuous improvement

• Humanising process automation with agile input

3.10 Afternoon break

3.30 DevOps strategy behind starting a fintech company

Jontie and Andrew will take you through the DevOps journey and strategy of setting up a fintech company.

Jontie Wakeham, IT Operations Manager, Harmoney Andrew Bates, CTO, Harmoney

4.10 DevOps as an enabler of business growth

This session takes a holistic look at the aligning goals and culture into business strategy and integrating DevOps COEs into organisational design, Pieter will also encourage reflection on whether DevOps is a magic bullet for all tech delivery challenges

Pieter Bronkhorst, CTO, Hamilton City Council

4.50 Closing remarks from Chair and end of conference

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