Jez Humble
Jez Humble is co-author of several books on software including Shingo Publication Award winner Accelerate and Jolt Award winner Continuous Delivery. He has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents. He works for Google Cloud as a technology advocate, and teaches at UC Berkeley.
unfold_lessunfold_more The Secrets of High Performing Technology Organizations
Key takeaways
- How to measure the performance of software teams
- The capabilities that drive performance, and how to implement them
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through six years of groundbreaking research, the DORA team set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This talk presents the findings of that research, including how to measure the performance of software teams, what capabilities organizations should invest in to drive higher performance, and how software leaders can apply these findings in their own organizations.
unfold_lessunfold_more Is DevOps Still Relevant In A Cloud Native World? (Enterprise Edition)
Key takeaways
- Principles and practical advice for designing cloud native platforms in the enterprise
- Principles for architecting cloud native systems
With the increasing trend towards abstracting away infrastructure into platforms, has DevOps become obsolete? Jez thinks not, and in this talk he’ll take an evidence-based approach to the design and implementation of compute platforms and the applications that live in them, based on DevOps principles and practices. He'll also discuss how security changes in the cloud-native paradigm, and effective organizational structures and processes for managing a diverse portfolio of applications.
