DevOps Manchester 25

DevOps Manchester 25 - Online!

IMPORTANT NOTE: This session will be recorded and posted to YouTube afterwards, by joining you give permission for your participation to be recorded. Please contact us for any omissions/removal requests.

Also this time we're running the meetup in the Zoom meeting format (we've used webinar in the past) which means you have camera/microphone options available for Q and A.

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Speaker One

Sophie Weston - Principal at Conflux

Talk title: Blameless Postmortems

Many of us are familiar with the practice of conducting blameless post-mortems after production outages but are we really making the most of these opportunities to learn, or has it just become something we do out of habit?
In this talk, Sophie will look again at the reasons for holding post-mortems, explore some best practices and what goes into making a successful post-mortem, and explain why the blameless bit really matters.

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Speaker Two
Matthew Skelton - Founder and head of consulting, conflux
Matthew is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow.

Talk title: Business and Technical Agility with Team Topologies

Organizations that do not adapt rapidly to the modern, highly-changeable business environment are failing, and failing in large numbers. Increased regulation, pressures from climate change, shifting of energy sources, digitalization, and (recently) the COVID-19 pandemic are all driving a need for business agility in organizations of all sizes.

In this talk, Matthew will explore how the patterns and principles from Team Topologies promote true business agility through a rapid flow of software change, fast feedback from running systems, a strong drive for loose coupling, and an awareness of sociotechnical mirroring. Combined with a product mindset and techniques from Domain-driven Design, the Team Topologies approach is helping organizations around the world to adapt to the "new normal" and achieve true business agility.