What did I learn trying to migrate teams from legacy to modern

Technology is just that: bits that can be replaced to improve a scenario. People are more complex, and this session is about that. Handling change is hard, and CD transformations brings lots of it. I realised there are patterns that keep repeating - regardless of the company or the market.

I spent an incredible amount of time doing migrations and transformations (on both process and technologies), as a consultant for most of my career and then inside a product company, bringing ALM, Agile and then DevOps to people varying from who was willing to change and who just wanted to retain their 20 years old habits.

The amount of lessons I learned is massive, not just about technology itself – that changes at the speed of light – but about how to deal with change in an organization.

This is not going to be a technical session – far from it – but instead it will be a short collection of some of the most striking experiences I had since I first heard about Software Engineering.

Matteo Emili is a Microsoft MVP since 2010 and works for One Identity as an Application Lifecycle Management and DevOps advisor. He is passionate about technology, but it is not his only interest – what really makes him tick is how technology acts as a tool to solve a complex business problem, ultimately bringing benefits to the company. Regular speaker at conferences and meetups across Europe, he enjoys sharing back with the worldwide technical communities – especially about ALM, Agile and DevOps.