People, Process, Tools – The Essence of DevOps (Richard Campbell)

DevOps is about making software better by bringing everyone involved in making software closer together, including (but not limited to): domain experts, architects, developers, designers, testers, security and operations. Richard will take you through the DevOps culture, focusing on people, process and products (in that order). You’ll learn how to get the conversation started between the teams, how to bring the teams closer together, and how to ultimately become one team (we’re all in this together)! Along the way Richard will tell some stories of real-life DevOps initiatives in a variety of organizations - some that were more successful than others! Understanding DevOps is about focusing on what’s important: building and delivering the best software you can.

Speaker: Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org (http://www.htbox.org/)), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com (http://www.dotnetrocks.com/)) which publishes three shows a week to .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com (http://www.runasradio.com/)) which is a weekly show for IT Professionals. You can reach Richard at richard@pwop.com.