Why We Need DevOps Now (featuring Gene Kim)

Agenda:

6:30 pm : Meet, greet, & eat

7:00 pm : Presentation

Why We Need DevOps Now: A Fourteen Year Study Of High Performing IT Organizations

Excella Consulting is excited to sponsor the July DC Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment User Group, featuring Gene Kim, author of the highly acclaimed “Visible Ops Handbook,” “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win,” and founder of Tripwire, Inc.

Join us to hear Gene present his findings from an ongoing study of how high-performing IT organizations simultaneously deliver stellar service levels and deliver fast flow of new features into the production environment. He will describe what successful transformations look like, and how those transformations were achieved from a software development and service operations perspective. Gene draws upon fourteen years of research of high-performing IT organizations, as well as work he's done since 2008 to help some of the largest Internet companies increase feature flow and production stability through applications of DevOps principles.

About the Speaker

Gene is a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including “The Visible Ops Handbook” and “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win." Gene is a huge fan of IT operations, and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from “code complete” to “in production,” without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He has worked with some of the top Internet companies on improving deployment flow and increasing the rigor around IT operational processes. In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the “40 Innovative IT People Under The Age Of 40” list, and was given the Outstanding Alumnus Award by the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.