How to Manage Unplanned Work and How it Affects Quality.

With the recent release of PuppetLabs State of DevOps Report 2016. We want to discuss one of the hot topics that came out of the report: Unplanned Work and its effects on Software Quality and Team Performance/Productivity.

Presenter:

Amin Astaneh: http://aminastaneh.net/ Amin is a systems administrator and developer with over 7 years of experience in the cloud and HPC space, where he's been responsible for environments ranging from several hundred to thousands of hosts. Amin currently works at Acquia where he's building a world-class Operations team. Amin will share his experience on how he is currently increasing visibility, throughput and employee harmony at Acquia.

Panel discussion from three different perspectives:

Panelists:

Mick England : Mick is the Director of Operations at TrueFit. http://devopsaccordingtome.blogspot.com/

Peter Nealon: Senior Technologist; DevOps Envangelist, Solutions Architect @ G2 Technology Group.

Stephen Vance: (http://www.vance.com (http://www.vance.com/)) is currently founding a stealth mode startup addressing DevOps issues of downtime due to interface incompatibilities. He has worked on and managed numerous efforts with highly interrupt- and discovery-driven components. He has also served as a Lean/Agile coach from the team to the whole enterprise.

Followed by member Q&A!

"Night of the Living DevOps"

Share your DevOps horror story about a time when things went so terribly wrong, but you were able to come "back from the dead." The goal is to share experiences with the community about a time where things got so bad you thought there was no way out, but were able to pull it off, and now you can give hope to your peers that may be facing similar challenges.