Name: Enabling DevOps culture with a Platform engineering team
Start: 2017-08-01T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-08-01T21:30:00-04:00
Location: ThoughtWorks

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AGENDA

6:30 PM -- Doors open for refreshments and networking

7:00 - 7:45 PM -- TW Consultant Adarsh Shah talks about enabling DevOps culture with a Platform engineering team: Challenges & Lessons Learned

7:45 - 8:00 PM -- Speaker Q&A

ASL interpretation available upon request. Please contact us the meet-up organizer by July 3.

Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

TALK DESCRIPTION

DevOps is about creating a culture of shared responsibility in delivery teams. It is recommended to embed operations skills into delivery teams to reduce friction and enable them to deliver products to customers faster but whenever there is a need for significant investment in tooling and automation and teams lack the skills to self-manage a full application and operations stack, having a separate Platform engineering team can help. Organizations that consider establishing such a platform engineering team should be very cautious not to accidentally create a separate DevOps team (https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/separate-devops-team).

In this presentation Adarsh Shah will talk about when and why Platform engineering team can be helpful. The team’s chief responsibility is to operate a platform which enables delivery teams to self-service deploy and operate systems with reduced lead time and complexity. The emphasis here is on self-service infrastructure and supporting tools, with delivery teams still responsible for supporting what they deploy onto the platform. He will also talk about challenges and lessons learned leading and being part of such teams. He will explain “The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps” as mentioned in “DevOps Handbook” & “The Phoenix Project” and how it can be used to resolve some of these challenges faced by the team.

SPEAKER BIO

Adarsh Shah is a Lead Consultant for ThoughtWorks having lead various teams including application development and platform engineering teams. He has a keen interest in building systems that add business value, and is passionate about helping clients achieve continuous delivery by improving their DevOps practices. He is excited about working with distributed systems architecture and cloud technologies these days. He cannot get enough of cricket or whisky.

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