Ten Easy Wins & People, not Platforms

Happy New Year! Thanks to some speakers putting their hands up we have two great talks lined up for February.

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Ten Easy Wins
Jamie Andrews, Senior IT Operations Engineer at IOP Publishing

Abstract
In the real world, what small steps can we make to move our less than ideal deployment and development environments a bit nearer to the DevOps dream?

Bio
With far too many years spent trying to automate and improve IT systems environments, Jamie Andrews is now doing what he's always done at IOPP. Notorious cyclist, lives in Devon

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People, not Platforms
Dan Young

Abstract
This talk is about People, not Platforms. This is purposefully not about the technology behind DevOps, PaaS or continuous innovation, but rather what it actually means for organisations to try to work in this way; specifically, large, established businesses called Enterprises. It’s also an exploration of the crazy and irrational things that we keep doing as humans, once we’ve been arranged into a hierarchy and system of beliefs.

Bio
Dan has worked in and around managed service providers (especially Telcos) for the last 10 years. He most recently worked as a Product Director for Daisy Group, and previously as a consultant with EMC's service provider team. Dan can be found at @dan0young on Twitter or at ejecteject.co.uk.

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Schedule

6:30pm - Grab a drink, pizza and chat to fellow DevOps people
7:15pm - Ten Easy Wins
7:45pm - Drink break
8:00pm - People, not Platforms
8:45pm - Closing remarks then everyone goes to The Volunteer Tavern pub