DevOps Utrecht March meetup @Plat4mation

18:00 - Doors open. Food & drinks provided by Plat4Mation
19:00 - Talk #1: Michiel Rook, Effective leadership in Agile/DevOps environments
19:45 - Break
20:00 - Talk #2: Luc Raeskin, Enterprise DevOps - Working Agile in DevOps teams while managing relations to ITSM and Portfolio Management
20:45 - Networking and beer

Talk #1:
Effective leadership in Agile/DevOps environments The Agile and DevOps movements place a lot of emphasis on the autonomy, self-organization and responsibility of teams. A common misconception is that there is little or no role for leaders of such teams. On the contrary! In this rapidly changing world, where competition is fierce and the pressure to deliver is high, effective leaders create environments that allow teams to thrive. They enable, coach and inspire. But what makes a leader an effective leader? Attend this talk to learn more about various leadership theories, how they can be applied in practice, and my thoughts on leadership based on experience as a tech lead and scrum master and from military service. Michiel Rook is an experienced consultant, developer, trainer & speaker from the Netherlands. He loves helping teams and companies to develop better software and improve the delivery process. When he’s not thinking about continuous deployment, devops or event sourcing he enjoys music, cars, sports and movies.

Talk#2:
Many enterprises are moving towards a DevOps way of working. This is great! However, we do see some misalignment with Security, Compliance and sometimes even ITSM processes. Or the relation to Portfolio Management. As such we developed using the ServiceNow platform a framework how enterprises can work DevOps/Agile but still keeping the necessary processes in place.