Elevator Pitch
Discover the key to unlocking your team’s full potential with Software Delivery Assessments, the ultimate tool for measuring trends, identifying areas for improvement, and monitoring progress.
Description
When you’re dealing with many teams working with legacy codebases and aging architecture and infrastructure it can be hard to know who needs help and what areas need investment. It is essential to know if different teams in different parts of the company are having a different experience if things aren’t improving over time, and what causes the most trouble. We can do this by giving the team a voice, and creating regular space to get feedback on the entire system so we can focus our energy on the most important problems. The best tool I have found for this is the Software Delivery Assessment, an evolution from the Spotify Squad Health Check.
In this talk participants will learn: - Why retrospectives aren’t enough - What the Software Delivery Assessment is, what topics are covered, and how it works - How to use the results
Notes
I am an agile and DevOps coach who always looks for new approaches to help teams be their best and deliver the best possible work. As a result I am constantly finding and experimenting with new tools and techniques to improve the software development process and experience. The Software Delivery Assessment is a topic I am passionate about as a team I worked with experimented with the Spotify Health Check and we independently modified it to be similar to the SDA from Conflux and Matthew Skelton - ever since I discovered it I have used it as my starting point instead of the Spotify health check. I’ve used this with more than a dozen teams at 2 organizations and found it to be very powerful and wanted to spread the word and share with others.
I am a big supporter of all things DevOps and volunteered at DevOps Days Denver in 2022. I thought this year I would try submitting a speaker submission. I have actually since moved to Tulsa in mid-2022 and DevOps Days is a great excuse to come visit my home in Colorado. I am an organizer for the Agile Denver Kanban Community of Practice, recently joined as an organizer with the Techlahoma Tulsa Agile Practitioners, have presented at these meetups, and done a fair amount of internal presenting. I had a CFP accepted to the 2020 Mile High Agile Conference, though was unable to present as that conference was cancelled due to the pandemic. I am looking for opportunities to speak to the community and grow as a professional speaker and IT thought leader and DevOps Days being a local favorite close to my heart I would be excited to have an opportunity to speak