From Chaos To Control: Fixing your teams through Devops /w Andrew Lethcoe

Abstract:
It happens every day, developers get new jobs, leave, switch projects, go on vacation. But what if something happens? Can someone just jump into your project and fix it? Would you be getting a call on the beach and have to assist someone upsetting your spouse and kids?

What should projects look like. What is realistic and what is normal? Should we even be settling for normal? Data from the 2024 DORA Report average teams deploy weekly or monthly. With 15% fail rate. Meanwhile elite teams can deploy multiple times a day with less than a 15% fail rate. We will discuss the strategy to quicky Reduce errors, Destress your team and have people trust that things will actually work when they go to release.

This talk is for developers building a project, managers who can't figure out what just isn't right or people just excited by automation.

Bio:

Andrew has been a software engineer since 2012. Working mainly on dotnet projects and also web technologies like React and Angularjs (and later). In 2015 his manager asked him to start using TFS build servers and it changed the way he thought about projects.

For 10+ years he has done varying tasks in automation. Like setting up Jenkins. Using Rancher as a Kubernetes development cluster making docker images straight off the build server. Or making new tools and Automation that help the dev teams.

Outside of work he has watched more movies, anime and played more video games than he should ever admit to.