Schedule

Sam Guckenheimer, Azure DevOps product owner, Microsoft

This is the story of transforming Microsoft to using Azure DevOps and GitHub with a globally distributed 24x7x365 service on the public cloud. We’ll show you round the system that handles the load of some of the most demanding engineering teams in the world and share some stories about how they got there.

Description:
This is a ten-year story of moving to Cloud-First Development and modern DevOps practices, supporting an internal engineering organization of 100,000+, while growing both the SaaS and traditional software business.

This experience report covers organizational and engineering practices in five areas:

• Customer Obsession
• You Build It, You Love It
• Team Autonomy and Enterprise Alignment
• Shift-Left and Shift-Right Quality
• Managing Infrastructure as a Flexible Resource

The talk covers the combined evolution of practices, tools, and culture.

Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia

Based in Silicon Valley, Leslie is the leader of a team analysing and reporting on new technologies and disruptive trends affecting telco players from inside and outside the traditional telco world. She is a Global LTE and 5G mobile data monetization analyst.