October 2019 Meetup

REGISTER HERE: http://bit.ly/LCD-OCT

Before the event takes place, we need to provide the venue with everyone's names and email addresses, to which they will send QR codes to get through the gates. Without a QR code, you will sadly not be permitted entry.

RSVP closes at 11am on October 28th.

Join us for an evening of great discussions & talks and beer & pizza.

We'll start off with the food and the drinks at 6.30pm.

Talk 1: Testing Activities in DevOps: It’s more than a tools story by Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.

As teams transitioned to using agile development principles and practices, many struggled to figure out how testing could “keep up” with frequent production deploys – every quarter, or month, or iteration or perhaps even weekly. Now many teams are moving towards continuous delivery, deploying to production multiple times a week or even multiple times a day. How can we possibly keep up with testing activities so that we have confidence to release changes so often?

A collaborative DevOps approach to building infrastructure to support continuous delivery and the ability to monitor and observe production use helps. However, many people aren’t even familiar with a
lot of the terminology around this. And many don’t realize that testing is at the core of DevOps and continuous delivery.

In this talk, Janet Gregory will help you understand the testing activities that are involved and how testers can contribute to successful continuous delivery and continuous deployment. She shares some techniques that can help your team embrace a DevOps culture, and learn how testers can help build bridges between “Dev”, “Ops” and the business stakeholders. You’ll learn that there IS a “test” in DevOps.

Janet Gregory is an agile testing coach and process consultant with DragonFire Inc. She is the co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction (LeanPub 2019), More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley 2014),
and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), the Live Lessons Agile Testing Essentials video course, and “Agile Testing for the Whole Team” 3-day training course.

Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testing practices are necessary to develop good quality products. She works with teams to transition to agile development and teaches agile testing courses worldwide. She contributes articles to publications and enjoys sharing
her experiences at conferences and user group meetings around the world. For more about Janet’s work and her blog, visit https://janetgregory.ca or https://agiletester.ca. You can also follow her on twitter @janetgregoryca.

Talk 2: How to be an Evil Scientist by Benedict Steele, Armakuni

Have you ever fancied turning your co-workers into laboratory rats and have them scurry around a maze searching for food whilst you ring a bell and the office cat slavers at the mouth?

No? Okay, well we weren't going to tell you how to do that anyway!

What we will share is how to embed a culture of ongoing experimentation that enables your team to learn and adopt new technologies, techniques, and processes - whilst also achieving current objectives.

No animals were harmed in the creation of this talk.

Ben is a creative technology leader who balances lived experience with emerging best practice. With over fifteen years experience of working in the public and third sectors, Ben enjoy helping organisations of all sizes to adopt new methods, techniques, and ways of working.

Prior to joining Armakuni, Ben led the Digital Engineering and Digital Product Teams at Cancer Research UK. A little bit before that, he co-founded HomeMade Digital, and worked with organisations such as BBC Children In Need, British Red Cross, Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation (Melbourne), Disasters Emergency Committee, and many more.

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