Paving the Road to Effective Software Development with insights from the FT

This October we'll be joined by Sarah Wells, presenting Paving the Road to Effective Software Development at the Veracode Office!

Join us for DevSecOps discussion, drinks and nibbles.

Paving the Road to Effective Software Development Synopsis:
One thing we’ve learned over the last few years is that autonomous cross-functional teams - ones that don’t have to stop and wait for someone outside the team to do something - can deliver business value faster.

However, it isn’t possible to have every skill on every team, and we do want all those autonomous teams to build in important things like security, observability and cost efficiency.

Many of these things we care about are best owned by a separate team, distinguishing the platform from the products built on it.

This isn’t a return to dev vs ops: the platform team builds and runs the platform, the dev teams build and run the services, and the interactions between them need to be as low friction as you can make them, while maintaining a level of security, quality and cost control that your company would expect.

That platform team should see themselves as enablers, providing tooling and services for common capabilities like DNS, content delivery, cloud provisioning, observability, etc.; managing relationships with vendors; and providing insights and oversight to product development teams.

For this to work though, there cannot be either a free for all where teams pick whatever tech they want - and there can’t be a mandated single way to do things. The answer is the paved road, and Sarah will talk about what this means for the organisation and the teams, with examples from her time leading this engineering enablement group at the Financial Times.

Location: Veracode, 36 Queen St, London, EC4R 1BN
Agenda:
6:00PM: Doors Open
6:15PM: Intros
6:30PM: Main Talk
We’ll head to a pub nearby to continue the conversation after.

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With thanks to our Gold Sponsors Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto, Sysdig and Apiiro for their continued support and to our host Veracode!

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