CANCELLED "Humans of DevOps & Git for All" : DevOps North East @ Sage UK

CANCELLED

In light of the latest developments with COVID-19 we are going to cancel the March event. We will look to reschedule the speakers to a date later in 2020.

For the March meetup we are back at our sponsor, Sage UK, where will have two great talks.

Talk 1
DevOps for Humans with Terry Brown

How many different definitions of DevOps have you seen? How many of them focus on tooling and ignore the most important aspects of DevOps? How many tell you if you aren’t doing “X” you’re doing it wrong? This isn’t one of those talks…

This talk will bring you DevOps from a different angle. It’ll cover the why behind DevOps, the various models that have become popular when talking about it and implementing system improvements. It’ll highlight some effective practices and anti-patterns, and it’ll deliver insights into the cultural, process, and practice changes that high performing teams adopt in their pursuit of flow of value.

You don’t have to be from a tech background to get value from this talk – tooling is barely mentioned. You will leave the talk with clarity on how DevOps could fit into your own organisations, what your first (and future) steps could be, and have the whole topic will be demystified.

About Terry Brown:
Terry has worked as a software engineer for 25 years, has headed up teams, and is now Director of Software Engineering at GSK helping the organisation on a tech transformation and a move to product focussed thinking. His tech interest is around performance, automation, and resilience in systems. His leadership focus is around focus on the customer, culture, psychological safety, empathy, emotional intelligence, mental health and helping teams bring their best selves to their work.

Talk 2
"GitOps - Demystifying Git For Ops Folk" with Brett Miller.

Git is a topic that is constantly talked about as being essential for modern day {Insert IT Related Job Title Here} but it's also a topic that gets unnervingly complex quickly. Most peoples first foray into using git is utilising other people's code and they suddenly have to learn about forks, cloning, branches, remotes and pull requests.

Abstracting away the complexity of git and break out the basic commands and a simple workflow, Brett wants to enable people to become effective quickly by simply learning the basics. How you can use git locally, reaping the benefits git offers out of the box and how you can start using this within your teams to make work visible and encourage collaboration.

About Brett Miller:
Brett is a Live Service Specialist at Sage UK.

As usual there will be food, drink and great conversation!