DevOps for the GenAI Age

DevOps for the GenAI Age

Track 2

  • Jens Happe

Reshaping Tech Organizations for Efficient Scaling of Agile Practices – Lessons from the Field

Scaling agile methods can be challenging, with frameworks like SAFe or Scrum@Scale often feeling bureaucratic. We share insights from our journey, showing how we adapted our organizational structure to scale agile practices, ensuring fast, user-centric product development and sustainable employee satisfaction.

  • Joakim von Prónay

Get the elephant off the road!!

This talk explores how focusing on team flow can lead to predictable delivery. Using the metaphor of road traffic congestion, it shows how to shift from estimation-driven planning to data-based forecasting, helping manage expectations and achieve more predictable outcomes.

  • Nina Nitzsche

Overcoming Agile Nightmares: From Anti-Patterns to Achievement

Discover common Agile anti-patterns like “Zombie Scrum” and “Dark Agile” that hinder effectiveness, cause burnout, and promote micromanagement. Learn to identify, understand, and address these pitfalls with real-world examples and strategies, fostering trust, purpose, and true customer value.

  • Yishai Beeri

DevOps for the GenAI Age

As DevOps evolved, automation streamlined processes like CI/CD. But with GenAI integrating into the software development lifecycle, new challenges arise – human touchpoints, AI-generated code, and review bottlenecks. Discover how simple tweaks and automation can boost velocity and developer happiness in the age of GenAI.

  • Andreas Stieger

Two pizzas – Fostering a Culture of Ownership and Continuous Improvement

Small, autonomous “two-pizza teams” can drive innovation and deliver results through strong ownership and knowledge sharing. Focusing on learning from mistakes, we’ll dive into Amazon’s Correction of Errors (COE) process, which helps identify root causes and derive actionable improvements in a blameless way.

  • Candost Dagdeviren

Building Incident Management Skills

During an incident, the pressure is immense: frustrated users, constant stakeholder inquiries, and first responder engineers balancing issue resolution with communication. The incident coordinator role reduces this, allowing engineers to focus on solving problems. I’ll share how we built and implemented this role.

  • Clarissa Rodrigues

Beyond Words: Bridging Cultural divides for Effective Communication and Collaboration

This talk, inspired by Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map, explores how to decode cultural differences to improve communication and unlock innovation. Learn strategies to navigate cultural cues, build trust, and leverage diversity for creativity, collaboration, and success.