Enterprise DevOps #Act8

After the Easter break, Enterprise DevOps is back!

This month the plan is to push the boundaries of DevOps for Enterprises introducing IT4IT. As usual we'll ear all of that from great speakers!

Event agenda & logistic.

18:00: Registration, drinks & food

18:30: A single backlog of activities into IT using IT4IT – reality or a pipe dream?

This session will cover

• An introduction to IT4IT (for those who do not know it) highlighting some key attributes of IT4IT (the IT Value Stream, the value chains and the Service Backbone)

• Why the OpenGroup chose to make IT4IT complementary to other standards

The concept of “Making IT flow”

Implementing IT4IT in an agile manner and implementing IT4IT to support Devops

The above will be annotated with practical real life examples showing various different organisations who are now using IT4IT (including the challenges they have overcome)

Speaker: Tony Price, EMEA IT4IT & IT Operations Management Strategic Consulting @ HPE

Tony has 38 years’ experience of working in the IT industry. He started his career in Mainframe Operations and evolved into an industry thought leader and strategic consultant specialising in ITSM and IT4IT. He won the UK ITSMF Paul Rappaport Award for Significant contribution to ITSM in 2015 http://www.itsmf.co.uk/?page=Awards2015 and he was recognised in the 2016 Onalytica report as one of the Top ITSM influencer’s http://www.onalytica.com/blog/posts/it-service-management-top-100-influencers-and-brands/ .Tony is now recognised as one of the leading authorities on IT4IT will bring a wealth of experience in his own direct and no nonsense style.

19:00: 10 slides on Enterprise Agility

A journey of 10 turns to explain why modern Enterprises cannot avoid to really think about transforming in Agile.10 business reasons with responses based on knowledge models, mathematical theories, historical events, philosophy, ...At the end of the presentation, everyone will be invited to give his contribution to the content bringing his/her own experience.

Speaker: Corrado De Sanctis, Atlassian Senior Consultant @ Herzum (herzum.com)

Corrado is an experienced Project Manager that have been working in Agile from 2012 with successful experiences as Scrum Master and Agile Coach in complex Digital transformation for large international companies in different sectors. Today he's responsible for the UK office of Herzum (herzum.com), one of the few Atlassian Platinum Experts, a leading reseller of Atlassian products able to provide state-of-the-art Agile and DevOps services, advanced enterprise-level consulting, as well as custom application development to companies around the world from the startup phase to the Fortune 100 level.

19:30: Q&A panel

19:45: More Food and drinks + Networking

21:30: Door closing

I am looking forward to seeing you there on the 25th!!

All the best,
Gianluca