devopsdays Amsterdam 2023

Let's Improve - Leverage DORA to Improve Your Team's Software Delivery and Operations Performance
2023-06-21 , Grote Zaal

Technology drives value and innovation in every organization. At Google Cloud, we have learned a lot about what it takes to build and scale high-performing technology teams. Our own lived experience combined with a multi-year research program led by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team can be used to help you and your team transform into a high-performing technology team.

This workshop will help you put the insights of the research framework into practice. Participants will:

  1. Describe your team’s current software delivery process
  2. Set baseline performance metrics
  3. Compare your performance with your peers in the industry
  4. Use DORA’s predictive analysis to identify where to make your next improvement
  5. Set some goals

By the end of this workshop you will have one improvement story to add to your backlog as you take the next step toward becoming an elite performing team. And, you’ll be able to repeat the process with your own team in your quest to getting better at getting better!

Nathen Harvey, Developer Advocate for DORA and Google Cloud, has built a career on helping teams realize their potential while aligning technology to business outcomes. Nathen has had the privilege of working with some of the best teams and open source communities, helping them apply the principles and practices of DevOps and SRE. He is part of the Google Cloud DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) research team and a co-author of the 2021 and 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Reports. Nathen was an editor for 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, published by O'Reilly in 2020.

Amanda Lewis is the DORA.community Development Lead and a developer advocate with Google Cloud, focused on DORA, DevOps, and Developer Productivity.

Amanda has spent her career building connections across leadership, developers, product managers, project management, and operators through working on teams that developed e-commerce platforms, content management systems, observability tools, and supported developers. These connections and conversations lead to happy customers and better outcomes for the business. She brings her years of experience and empathy to the work that she does helping teams understand and implement DevOps and reliability practices.