devopsdays Amsterdam 2024

Let's Improve - Leverage DORA to Improve Your Team's Software Delivery and Operations Performance
2024-06-19 , 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 by the 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 get better at getting better!

Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer, leads the DORA team at Google Cloud. DORA enables teams and organizations to thrive by delivering industry-shaping, accessible, and actionable research. Nathen has learned and shared lessons from some incredible organizations, teams, and open source communities. He is a co-author of multiple DORA reports on software delivery performance and was a contributor and editor for 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, published by O'Reilly in 2020.

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Amanda Lewis is a Developer Relations Engineer on the DORA Advocacy team at Google Cloud. She leads the development of the DORA Community of Practice and is a co-author of the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. Her career has been spent building connections across teams to develop e-commerce platforms, content management systems, observability tools, and support developers. She helps teams develop a culture of continuous improvement to deliver improved well-being and better outcomes for the business.

Dave Stanke is a Developer Advocate for DORA, a program run by Google Cloud. He specializes in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and other flavors of technical relationship therapy. He loves chatting with practitioners: listening to stories, telling stories, sharing a healthy cry. Prior to Google, he was the CTO of OvationTix, a SaaS startup in the performing arts industry, where he specialized in feeding memory to Java servers. He chose on purpose to live in New Jersey, where he enjoys carpentry, indie rock, and fatherhood.

Rob Edwards, DevOps Technology Practice Lead at Google Cloud UK&I, specialising in application/software delivery and operations. Loves helping teams unlock their software delivery, reliability engineering, and platform engineering potential.

Drawing on two decades of experience working with amazing teams, he takes a human-centric approach to solving complex technical challenges and transformations. With a coffee often in hand he loves chatting with leaders and practitioners alike sharing stories about his passions in technology, developer experience and the human aspects of technology adoption and transformation.