Sometimes, when you are helping teams really adopt DevOps or agile, it feels like you are swimming against the current. It’s not just that you need to defend against those who have a clearly different worldview, but frequently you find yourself running into people who use all the right words, but in practice undermine all the values you are about.

Let’s explore how our ways of working can sometimes leave us vulnerable to attack, and how to defend against that. How do you actually implement DevOps and agile values in practice? How can those practices be subverted? And what, sometimes subversive, means do we have to stay our true course and, maybe, conquer a little more minds and territory?

Join this workshop to share your own stories, hear our and others’ solutions, and broaden your toolkit to influence without power.

Iterative delivery has always had friction with the need to present a plan that is easy to digest by those that stand a little further from the work: stakeholders and managers. In this workshop we present a way to seamlessly integrate the dynamic process of iterative discovery with the need to present A Plan.

We guide you through the process of planning and dealing with risk, using the familiar tool of Story Mapping, extended to create a natural fit between our way of working iteratively and incrementally and presenting a plan. You will learn how to easily create the type of roadmap view of a plan that shows expected timelines while keeping different options and variations on the plan open and transparent. Since we often need to plan in difficult circumstances, we show you how to deal with deadlines, risk and technical debt in your planning.