Agile/DevOps Global Conference

8.00 - 9.35 AM CET/rerun 15.00 - 16.35

Make the journey agile; focus on value streams of work avoiding big-bang changes by adopting value stream management (VSM) as part of your Agile Transformation journey.

Keith Buehlman, Senior Director Agile Transformation, Consulting & Digital Transformation Services, NTT DATA Services

Keith Buehlman is an Agile Transformation Coach, Business Transformational Leader, and Consultant with over 20 years of Business & IT experience, to include 12 + years of Agile Transformation, Business Digital Transformation, and Innovation experience all the while championing the adoption of agile approaches and methodologies in both national and multinational organizations. Keith has a track record of success diagnosing issues and prescribing transformation strategies in both Agile Transformation and Business Transformation spaces to help provide Agility to those organizations. Keith has also developed a passion for New Product Development, Transformation and Innovation over the years and has built multiple strategies and teams including Innovation Incubators, Center of Excellences and New businesses and practices within those organizations to deliver value based outcomes. 

Come learn how VSM maps can visualize the people, processes, and technology and provide all your stakeholders the capability to observe and measure through metrics the flow of product epics, features, and work item artifacts in the value stream. Your whole organization - the business, executives, teams, and individuals - can transparently take ownership of what they each can do to deliver.

Efficient Automated Testing of a Contract Management System using Gherkin

Frank Bergemann, Managing Consultant - Team Test Advisory, NTT DATA DACH

Frank is working in NTT DATA DACH as a consultant in the area of Test and Quality Assurance. He has worked in this area within customer IT projects for more than 20 years. In recent years, he turned his attention to test automation and its DevOps integration using open-source methods and tools.

 In the SMYLE project, the Mercedes-Benz Bank develops a contract management system based on the standard SW product Alfa. A team of five colleagues from NTT Germany and Italy has the leading role to realize a pervasive test automation of the system using the Gherkin language. The main focus of our work is the formulation of Gherkin Tests in Jira/Xray that can be automated efficiently by customer's automation coding team in India. Upon this, our team has developed a dedicated Gherkin syntax which is well-aligned to Alfa and easy-to-understand and -use. Whilst test automation is often understood and done only by highly specialized experts, our concept made the design of automated tests a daily business of many user-story creators and product owners. Thanks to this, a remarkable degree of automation could be achieved in a short time. Based on our approach we also derived a new elegant way to create necessary test data on-the-fly.

DevOps for Sustainability

Maria Vittoria Trussoni, Technology Strategist & Champion of Sustainability, NTT DATA Italia

 Graduated in Mathematical Engineering from Polytechnic of Milan, Maria Vittoria has tried since her studies to combine her passion for technology with the intention of developing solutions capable of creating value for the society. The focus of her work has always been the application of emerging technologies to tackle business issues, such as optimization, analytics, AI, Blockchain and Quantum Computing. Today, she is Blockchain Technology Strategist and co-lead of NTT DATA's Championship Sustainability Goals, which explores applications of technology to support a more sustainable world.

Since its inception, DevOps has been dealing with optimization and waste removal. Better collaboration and automation help dramatically reduce development efforts, while bringing consistency to the workflow. Better product quality also means less correction cycles. So far, all these benefits have been aimed at improving the time-to-market while reducing costs. Thus, a very simple equation links DevOps to money. But there is a new factor companies are increasingly and urgently requested to face - namely Sustainability. For those companies heavily engaged in software technologies, this - at its simplest - refers to the energy consumption of their production process. Therefore, a new equation can easily link DevOps to... Watts. But there more than that: dealing seriously with sustainability requires a holistic approach. Within an organization, this means to involve the largest number of stakeholders, to address the topic consistently, also considering how and where teams collaborate and work. DevOps has the potentiality to reshape organizations and work models, contributing to bring its benefits to a healthier human ecosystem.

9.40 - 11.20 AM CET/rerun 16.40 - 18.20

Practical Implementation of How to Scale Agile to Large Teams

Saikat Dalui, SAFe Program Consultant & Release Train Engineer, NTT DATA Corporation

Saikat is a SAFe Program Consultant & Release Train Engineer within NTT DATA Japan, having more than 11 years of experience in a Multinational Company (MNC). Currently working as Agile Coach / RTE in one of the NTT DATA project.

 

 

 

 We are going to present the digital transformation and the case study of our customer. We will talk about their existing problematic areas and how we have helped them to overcome the situation by implementing SAFe and the latest technology. 

 

 

9.40 - 11.20 AM CET/rerun 16.40 - 18.20

The unbreakable delivery pipeline

René Forstner, Managing Technical Consultant, NTT DATA DACH

René works in NTT DATA DACH as a Managing Technical Consultant, supporting various customers mainly with Application Performance Management, Observability and Integrate all those topics into useful processes.

We’ll talk about some concepts of Site Reliability Engineering, Observability and Quality Gates and how they will make your delivery pipeline unbreakable without compromising code quality and increase the reliability of your applications while speeding up your deployment process. We’ll walk through the concepts of Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objects and Release Validation and how good observability mechanism can help in automating deployment processes.

Open Source Governance for a full and proper DevSecOps process

Marco Iusi, Open Source Manager, NTT DATA Italia

Marco is passionate about innovation and in recent years he is dealing with Open Source, in which he strongly believes as a lever for innovation, but at the same time he strives to spread a culture of greater awareness of related risks, addressing a way to prevent and govern them adequately. Marco also works with Cloud, he is responsible for the Google Cloud architectural team and for various initiatives aimed at improving skills and experiences in this area, always with an "open" approach.

 Open Source governance must be part of an actual DevSecOps process. Often the concerns related to the Open Source usage (legal, security and operational risks) are underestimated, the recent issue with Log4j should have taught a lot about this. Our proposal provide ad integrated way to put this part inside the software lifecycle as a part of a comprehensive CI/CD strategy, configuring fully automated pipelines with most widespread DevOps toolchains. As a part of OpenChain Community (OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 is the International Standard for open source compliance) and partner of Synopsys, that is the best in class for Software Composition Analysis with the BlackDuck suite, we address this topic both from a methodological and a technological point of view as Open Source Competence Center in NTT DATA which provides services for the whole EMEA region, the presentation will give a practical and effective demonstration of that.

9.40 - 11.20 AM CET/rerun 16.40 - 18.20

CI/CD on Google Cloud Platform

Devid Verra, Payment Tech & Innovation Architect, Product Specialist, NTT DATA Italia

IT Architect, Product Specialist with decades of experience in the payments field, gaining considerable experience in the design and implementation of web and mobile applications, based on different technologies (J2EE, Node, Python). Designer and architect of e-Wallet and Mobile Payments systems, based on both SOA and Microservices architectures, with particular focus on the structure and definition of public / private APIs for integrating the various systems involved, including the main payment networks (Sepa, Swift, Blockchain).

Thanks to massive gains in CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) tools, automation is quickly becoming the DevOps norm. By investing in a CI/CD pipeline, organizations will benefit from increased agility in response to customer needs, increased developer autonomy, rolling updates to production and confidence in error free deployments. We are going to present an overview of the CI/CD pipeline for Java Microservices Application, based on Google Cloud Platform managed services, like Source Repository, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Trace, and so on. It is going to be a deep dive into the GCP ecosystem for Cloud Native Applications.

BuDDy – Behaviour-Driven Development Automation Platform

Cesare Salerno, Solution Architect, NTT DATA Italia

Cesare Salerno works in NTT DATA Italy as Solution Architect and Project Team Leader since 2016.
He is passionate about computer science, software quality expert and agile evangelist. During last years He designed software architectures for big NTT DATA's customers and contributed to implement remote working models for international and multi-country teams, leveraging on scaled agile methodology and adopting DevOps best practices and test first approaches (BDD-TDD).

AWS Serverless for Java Developers with Quarkus and GraalVM

Alexander Burkard, Managing Technical Consultant, NTT DATA DACH

Alex works at NTT DATA DACH as a developer, firefighter, architect and team lead. In his private life, he enjoys being outside in company and is very proud of his two daughters.

Going serverless without leaving your ecosystem is super easy! Use Quarkus. Add two parameters to your build. And you're ready to go. Is this really the first thing I've found that doesn't require compromise? Let's find out!