There are a ton of best practices in the operations world. But what really makes sense for your team? The reality is that one size doesn't fit all. Lean is a framework for designing and optimising processes. Let's apply it to a typical incident management process and see what comes of it.
Description:
Lean Thinking is an analysis framework that has revolutionised various domains like manufacturing and software development. It's principles are:
Optimize the whole
Eliminate waste
Create knowledge
Build quality in
Deliver fast by managing flow
Defer commitment
Respect people
We will look at each of these principles and apply them to the incident management lifecycle. At the end of this we will see why certain best practises make sense, practices that aren't common but should be and common practises which are probably not very helpful

Biju Chacko is a 20+ year veteran of Unix system operations. In the past he has been a prominent open source advocate, helped popularize Linux in India and a core committer of the Xfce Desktop. Most recently, he helped lead an operations team that managed a fleet of 55,000 physical servers.

Testing is context-dependent, and in turn, so is test automation! Testing teams are faced with a number of questions, decisions and challenges throughout their test automation journey. But there is no single solution for their varied problems! In this talk we will outline a number of strategies that agile teams can follow– be it their selection of what to automate and how much, what approaches to follow, whom to involve, and when to schedule these tasks so that the releases are debt free and of best quality. Knowing your options, you can then decide on what strategy fits the best in your context and follow it in your test automation efforts.

Nishi is a corporate trainer, an agile enthusiast and a keen tester at heart! With 11+ years of industry experience in Agile environment, she has worked in various roles as a hands-on tester, automation developer, a consulting trainer and currently works with Sahi Pro as the Evangelist and Trainings Head. Nishi is passionate about training, organizing testing community events and meetups, and has trained hundreds of professionals and teams on agile, test automation, QA bootcamps and DevOps courses.
She is CP-AAT, CP-SAT, CP-DOF, CP-MAT (certified by ATA), Agile Scrum Master ASM (by EXin) and ISTQB certified (Foundation and Advanced Test Analyst & Test Manager) and likes to keep updating her skills periodically. She has been a speaker at many testing events and conferences. Nishi is also a writer on technical topics of interest in the industry and has numerous articles published at numerous popular forums and her own blog https://testwithnishi.com/ where she writes about the latest topics in Agile and Testing domains.

How Automation helps in building the scalable systems in the fastest way and grow and maintain sustainable business?

This will be an interactive session with participants where we together explore akin to how in a "Health Check up" through a blood sample collected through that small test tube of blood droplets whole body wellness is holistically but objectively assessed, ailments detected and preventive or even reactive consultation / cure given by Medical Consultants.
Which Agile Artefact/ Role/ Ceremony in an Agile Team is that drop of blood where is which the wellness can be holistically but objectively assessed participants as Agile Consultants can provide recommendation to their teams and customers .
The exploration will eventually lead to Life Cycle of user story is akin to that sample of blood through which the wellness of an Agile team can be assessed in a holistic way just like how a blood sample gives a holistic assessment of one's bodies wellness.
Then I will bring about strategies to improve Life Cycle of user story blending in practical approaches I have from my coaching experience across customers in BDD, TDD, Agile Work Breakdown and also best practices to author an user story
I have a youtube link of similar talk I have given in another conference attached below, in this talk I will emphasis more on Life cycle of user story and also best practices for user story authoring.

Companies tend to think that making products accessible is expensive. However if companies start looking at Senior Citizens and Persons with Disabilities as potential customers who can improve top line and bottom line, that will make a huge difference. In this 45 minute talk - we will talk about what is accessibility, why do that, how to do that and integrate it into Agile.

•28+ Years of IT Experience
•Founder Chairman of WinVinaya Foundation
•Founder Director of WinVinaya InfoSystems India Private Ltd
•Alumni of Microsoft, Adobe, NTT Data , Wipro
•We provide free Training & Placement assistance to Persons with Disabilities, Women
•We focus on Software Development, Software Testing, Data Visualization, RPA, Tally Skills
•Our candidates work in MNCs like JPMC, Wipro, Caterpillar, HP, Dell and Upcoming start ups
•70% of our employees are Persons with Disabilities
•40% of our employees are Persons with Disabilities
•Along with our PWD employees, we provide Accessibility Testing, Disability Sensitization Services, Software Development, Software Testing, Data Visualization, RPA consulting services
•We build Software Products File Validater which validates thousands of business rules in fraction of time and effort
•Our clients include many Fortune 100 companies

New Approach to Collaboration for faster Innovation

Core Competencies:

➢ A global Software Quality Engineering Leader driving Enterprise Applications both in the Cloud and Managed services platforms
➢ Been a driver of customer success and have had active discussions with executive leadership teams within the organization and attended several direct discussions with customers across the globe and resolved quality and product issues.
➢ Drove Global Strategic Quality engineering initiatives for OpenText, I was responsible for setting the Goals for Software Automation, Performance Engineering and Application Security and End-toEnd Solutions Testing. I was also heading the Custom Development Quality Engineering team as part of my leadership role in the past.
➢ Head of Engineering Product Support Tier-3 about 120 Mobile Value Added Service Applications while at OnMobile Global Ltd. .
➢ Been a mentor and a guide to all my reporting organizations and have ensured that the teams deliver on optimal performance with quality in mind.
➢ Practiced Agile (SAFe)and Waterfall models at various organizations including V-Model and Scrum Methods
➢ Have been actively on the innovations and development of inhouse tools and Analytics dashboards for the Quality Engineering and Product Support functions
➢ As part of the Agile product development process, implemented shift-left development process to accelerate the development of applications and testing. Introduced Automated Build verification CI/CD process during the Scrum development.
➢ Worked with cross-functional Business Analysts and Product Owners and Executive Leadership to ensure the products were delivered on-time and with acceptable quality standards.

It’s been 16 years in the Hacking World & my views about the software are still preposterous in terms of Security which has not changed. I look at Security in Unconventional ways and I am very strong-minded to speak and demonstrate why we suck even today? The show will be scary & fun. Are you ready?

Santhosh Tuppad has played different roles in his life which include being a passionate entrepreneur, liar, lover, boyfriend, husband, thief, software tester, blogger, reader, trainer, coach, black-hat hacker, white-hat hacker, grey-hat hacker and what not. In this amazing journey of life, he has experienced his salvation. Not to forget that “Salvation comes at a price” and of course he has paid that price. Before he was known for being merciless, ruthless, unkind, evil, etc. And today he is known for kindness, humbleness, and some people call him “Privacy Fighter”. Santhosh is also one of the OWASP Cheatsheet Contributor and shares his knowledge on Security and Testing unconditionally. The world finds his ways “Unconventional”, but he thinks that it’s the best

Many DevOps engineers have a burning desire to innovate and excel at automating and learning newer platforms. But they often feel their skills are underutilized or not rewarded fairly. So they withdraw their passion from work, and soon feel stuck in their jobs. Studies show that it costs millions of dollars in lost revenue due to employee inefficiency. This speech enables engineers debug the root cause of their mindset and provides actionable steps to reinvigorate their passion for DevOps. This new found enthusiasm and empowerment among engineers result in a high performing engineering teams and eventually a cutting edge tech company.

Aditya Guthey, based in USA, is an engineer by craft who worked his way up to becoming a senior data engineer at major companies like eBay, Verizon. Through coaching at IPEC, one of America's premier coach training institute, he transformed himself into an award-winning and a performance coach enabling engineers achieve their full potential. He is also a founder of a group coaching and training company called WorldWithoutBorders which helps clients experience life without limits so they live up to their full potential.

Agile is picking up in almost every industry. Having a successful product means an essence of the kind of ground work, team, understanding and solving the problem of the tech world. We would walk through the journey of how we managed to unlearn the mistakes of building a product & back with a bang!

Naturally gifted skills | Product Enthusiast | Entrepreneur | Businessman

I was selling 3G dongles at different locations in Bangalore in 2009. I was selling them so effectively, someone noticed my skills, interviewed me for a software testing position, offered an internship and then later became a full time tester. I tested some of India's top apps and also at customer locations outside India. I was professionally on par.

I needed a better challenge. I saved some money, quit the job, and tried doing my own app. What a journey. I failed with it, burnt my money but had gained sufficient experience in identifying the gap between developers - testing - businesses.