DevOps North East Oct 2022 - Metaphors, monitoring & metrics with Tom Hoyland

October 2022 - "High Performance Platforms/Teams"

Craig Pearson will be hosting the October 2022 D.O.N.E. Meetup and will be joined by guest speaker Tom Hoyland.

Tired of 'Waterfall' vs 'Agile'? Fed up with simplistic plans for complex work? Are you an Agile Coach stuck on the reporting treadmill? In this talk, we’ll show you how a platform team wrapped up concepts from DevOps, complexity, metaphors and Clean Language into a tidy package to change the way they worked - challenging their biases, considering brain chemistry, and finding new opportunities for scaling along the way (no… it’s not SAFe).

You'll see how the team challenged the language they used to communicate progress and risks, incorporating DevOps concepts to reduce ambiguity, increase transparency, and changed the way decisions were made. We’ll reveal how we stopped Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads and Agile Coaches from becoming relays for information, by using concepts such as Clean Feedback to reduce the distance between what people thought was happening and what the ground truth was, with a few bots thrown in there for good measure!

Tom Hoyland Speaker Bio: With a background in engineering, product development and service transformation, Tom gets under the bonnet of products, teams, and organisations to understand what makes them tick and how they could be better. Tom is an Expert Agile and DevOps practitioner, Coach and Mentor at Sky Betting & Gaming and That Agile. Previously Tom has led Agile and Digital Transformations, building teams, growing capabilities and promoting cultures that reduce the lead time to business impact at the UK Home Office and across UK Police Forces.

The talk is around 45 mins with 30 mins Q&A.

As usual there will be (virtual) pizza, drinks and great conversation!