IBM DevOps Workshops at IBM InterConnect 2017

Complimentary:IBM Bluemix Garage Method Field Guide &

DevOps for Dummies Series

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DevOps WorkshopsLearn how to jump-start your digital transformation

Technical track & Management track

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Who should attend Title When

DevOps Management

Workshops

Executives, Managers, Senior

Tech Influencers and

Architects

Apply Design Thinking to Accelerate

DevOps

Monday, Mar 20th

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Hold Your Horses or Let Them Run Wild?

A Financial Institution’s DevOps Journey

Tuesday, Mar 21st

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Get on the Bandwagon for Digital

Transformation with DevOps

Tuesday, Mar 21st

2:15 pm – 3:45 pm

Get Mapped – Lean Value Stream Mapping

for DevOps

Tuesday, Mar 21st

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

DevOps Technical

Workshops

Mid-level Managers and Senior

influencers (Architects,

Developers, QA Leads, etc.)

Continuous Delivery of Software

Innovation in Today's Complex Multi-

Speed IT World

Wednesday, Mar 22nd

8:30 am – 10:00 am

Get a SAFe® Agile Release Train Up &

Running in an Hour

Wednesday, Mar 22nd

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Simplify DevOps Transformation with IBM

Bluemix Continuous Delivery and Garage

Method

Wednesday, Mar 22nd

1:00 pm -2:30 pm

Mainframe DevOps: Managing the Cultural

Divide

Wednesday, Mar 22nd

3:00 pm -4:30 pm

Managing Multi-Cloud Environment with

Ease

Thursday, Mar 23rd

8:30 am – 10:00 am

Shift Application Performance

Management Left in the DevOps Lifecycle

Thursday, Mar 23rd

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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Who should participate

Workshop facilitator

Workshop objectives

Apply Design Thinking to Accelerate DevOps

Monday, Mar 20th | 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm (#7007)

Reef Ballroom D

Design Thinking is a powerful approach to innovation and brand differentiation that is focused on

creating positive user experiences. With Design Thinking, teams conceptualize, design, refine

and prioritize features that will delight their customers. Join IBM experts and clients in an

interactive Design Thinking workshop and learn how the Bluemix Garage Method can help you

incorporate Design Thinking into your DevOps process.

• Create storyboards to iterate and

communicate ideas visually by telling user -

centric stories

• Build empathy maps to rapidly put your team

in the user’s shoes and align on pains and

gains

• Experience how ideation can generate

breakthrough ideas

Executives, Managers, Senior Tech

Influencers and Architects

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Limited Seating: To ensure that

you have a seat please add this

workshop to your InterConnect

agenda.

Sarah PlantenbergSenior UX Designer and Lead,

Worldwide IBM Bluemix

Garages

Chris LazzaroSTSM, Cloud DevOps &

Garage Method Lead

Architect

Attendees will receive

Complimentary DevOps

for Dummies Series

with a copy of the IBM

Bluemix Garage Method

Field Guide




Workshop objectives

Hold Your Horses or Let Them Run Wild? A Financial

Institution’s DevOps JourneyTuesday, Mar 21st | 11:30 am - 01:00 pm (#7004)

Reef Ballroom D

To meet the FinTech challenge, incumbent financial institutions are rapidly adopting lean, agile

and DevOps practices to develop and deliver products and services. However, widespread

adoption of these practices remains a challenge due to organizational silos, regulatory pressures,

inflexible heritage systems and the like. Join IBM Financial services experts and clients to

understand how traditional organizations are rethinking foundational processes, technologies,

and culture to evolve and build a robust FinTech-like ecosystem to accelerate innovation.

David K ZimmermanGlobal Solutions Executive and

Worldwide Cloud Leader, IBM

Global Banking & Financial

Markets

• Understand the relevance of DevOps within the

FSS landscape in terms of both innovation (e.g.

digital) and optimization (e.g. removing waste)

• Hear case studies of other organizations that

have succeeded with DevOps, the implications

on people, process and technology, and the

benefits realized

• Understand how to start your own DevOps

journey and how to quantify the value it will bring



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Peter EelesExecutive IT Architect, IBM

Hybrid Cloud

IBM Cloud




agenda.



for Dummies Series



Field Guide





Workshop objectives

Get on the Bandwagon for Digital Transformation

with DevOpsTuesday, Mar 21st | 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm (#7005)

Reef Ballroom D

DevOps is hot and plenty of success stories testify to its effectiveness in organizations of any

size, industry, or level of IT maturity. Understand the role of DevOps as a digital transformation

enabler that leads organizations on the road to maximizing productivity and innovation at

enterprise-scale. Join IBM experts and clients in this dynamic workshop that uses interactive

exercises to teach you how to assess your own organization’s readiness for DevOps and how to

identify next steps in your journey to Digital Transformation.

• Learn how DevOps can help you transition from

a traditional to a digital environment

• Discuss real experiences in transforming large

organizations for increased speed and quality

using DevOps

• Begin an assessment of your organization's

DevOps readiness and potential paths to

improving innovation velocity



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agenda.

Sanjeev SharmaIBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO,

DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption



for Dummies Series



Field Guide





Workshop objectives

Get Mapped – Lean Value Stream Mapping for

DevOpsTuesday, Mar 21st | 04:00 pm – 5:30 pm (#7006)

Reef Ballroom D

Transformation in technology has made customer experience a fundamental expectation, making

software delivery speed crucial for organizations. Value stream mapping helps the entire

organization see where the biggest bottlenecks are and how they negatively affect delivering

value to customers. It is a crucial step in assessing an organization’s DevOps capability. Join

IBM experts and clients in a value stream mapping exercise to identify waste, reduce cycle times,

and implement continuous process improvement for a seamless DevOps adoption.

• Discuss real experiences and industry best-

practices in successfully transforming large

organizations for increased speed and quality

using a DevOps approach

• Begin an assessment designed to illustrate your

organization's readiness and potential paths to

improving innovation velocity



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agenda.

Mustafa KapadiaIBM North America DevOps

Service Line Leader



for Dummies Series



Field Guide





Workshop objectives

Continuous Delivery of Software Innovation in

Today's Complex Multi-Speed IT WorldWednesday, Mar 22nd | 8:30 am – 10:00 am (#7008)

Reef Ballroom D

Innovating in today’s world of complex applications is a daunting task for even the most

seasoned release engineer. Error-prone, manual processes run on a variety of technologies and

platforms often lead to delays in delivery. The time has come to review existing practices, work

towards eliminating bottlenecks, and finding new ways to achieve operational efficiency. Join IBM

experts and clients in this interactive technical workshop on a journey to unleash your delivery

potential.

• Identify which bottlenecks offer opportunity

for improvement and which are merely

distractions

• Find the business value in improving IT

process for your organization

• Witness the implementation of best practices

and deployment of simple application

changes to existing systems

Technical audience - Mid-level Managers

and Senior influencers (Architects,


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agenda.

Al WagnerExecutive Solution Architect,

BVA, Cost Benefit Analysis

Eric MinickExecutive IT Specialist,

Solution Architect,

Enterprise Scaled Agile

(SAFe) & DevOps



for Dummies Series



Field Guide





Workshop objectives

Get a SAFe® Agile Release Train Up and Running

in an HourWednesday, Mar 22nd | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (#7013)

Reef Ballroom D

Many large organizations still struggle when it comes to scaling their agile implementations

beyond a few local teams. Join IBM experts and clients in this interactive DevOps technical

workshop to learn how to get a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) agile release train up and

running in an hour. Share ideas, collaborate, and discover SAFe tools and training to adopt lean

and agile principles at enterprise scale.

• Understand how agile and lean applies to your

complex, regulated organization

• Learn how specific challenges were overcome in

real enterprise organizations

• Learn to “design” your SAFe project and then

how to leverage tools to support it

• Understand how to get started with your own

recipe for success




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agenda.

Amy SilberbauerExecutive IT Specialist,

Solution Architect,

Enterprise Scaled Agile

(SAFe) & DevOps

Bhawana GuptaWW Lead - CLM-IT,

Agile and SAFe, IBM

Cloud



for Dummies Series



Field Guide





Workshop objectives

Simplify DevOps Transformation with IBM Bluemix

Continuous Delivery and Garage MethodWednesday, Mar 22nd | 1:00 pm -2:30 pm (#7009)

Reef Ballroom D

IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery is an integrated set of tools to build, deploy and manage your

apps. It’s a new service that leverages Bluemix Garage Method for DevOps Transformation to

enable continuous delivery of cloud applications. The combination of methods, toolchains, and

delivery pipelines give development teams an enterprise-ready practice for DevOps on Bluemix.

Join IBM experts and clients in an interactive technical workshop to learn how to design,

configure and create a DevOps toolchain that includes tools like GitHub, PagerDuty, Slack, and

Sauce Labs for team collaboration, planning, source code management, and testing.

• Bluemix Garage Method embodies the best

practices for DevOps transformation

• There is a powerful synergy when your

DevOps tools and methods are aligned

• Hands on with BCD: Follow along with your

laptop or watch the group demo




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agenda.

Chris LazzaroSTSM, Cloud DevOps &

Garage Method Lead Architect



for Dummies Series



Field Guide

Michael ElderIBM Distinguished Engineer,

Chief Developer, UrbanCode

& Hybrid Cloud DevOps Visit: bit.ly/ibmworkshops




Workshop objectives

Mainframe DevOps: Managing the Cultural DivideWednesday, Mar 22nd | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm (#7010)

Reef Ballroom D

Enterprises need to accelerate innovation while ensuring the stability, security and reliability of

core IT systems. While systems of engagement demand speed, agility and experimentation,

business-critical systems of record face the same challenges PLUS the challenges of

governance and predictability. Join IBM experts and clients in this interactive technical workshop

to learn how to adopt DevOps practices to speed mainframe development and delivery without

jeopardizing the stability, security and reliability of critical systems that span mobile devices to

mainframes.

• Learn how mainframe development can be

part of the overall organizational

transformation to DevOps

• Learn how to get started on the

transformation

• Learn how modern development practices

provide faster delivery while reducing risk




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agenda.

Rosalind RadcliffeIBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief

Architect for CLM and DevOps, Member

of the Academy of Technology



for Dummies Series



Field Guide





Workshop objectives

Managing Multi-Cloud Environment with Ease

Thursday, Mar 23rd | 8:30 am – 10:00 am (#7012)

Reef Ballroom D

Cloud portfolios within enterprises are expanding and driving the need for cloud management

platforms that can manage multi-cloud environment without losing the visibility, governance, or

operational control the IT teams require per the business need. Join IBM experts as they provide

hands-on experience to monitor, manage, and optimize workloads in a multi-cloud environment.

• Learn how to manage multi-cloud

environments using a single agnostic tool

regardless of the cloud provider

• Learn how to automate your cloud by

selecting from a catalog of Enterprise-class

pre-built patterns or create your own using

your favorite tools

• Learn how to create policy-based tasks

ensuring corporate governance




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agenda.

Jose OrtizLead Architect Cloud Automation Manager,

IBM Cloud

Shajeer K MohammedArchitect - IBM Cloud

Orchestrator, IBM Cloud



for Dummies Series



Field Guide





Workshop objectives

Shift Application Performance Management Left in

the DevOps LifecycleThursday, Mar 23rd | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (#7011)

Reef Ballroom D

Embracing an Ops-mindset early in your software delivery process helps you reduce cycle times

from months to hours, but you must also ensure an engaging user experience. Join IBM experts

and clients in an interactive workshop to understand why you need to shift Application

Performance Management left in your DevOps lifecycle to deliver a more reliable service with

better insights, faster incident resolution and visibility into all monitoring data.

• Learn how to leverage dev lifecycle to

simplify the introduction of application

performance management

• Identify key APM capabilities to use early in

the dev cycle

• Identify key value propositions where APM is

going to produce ROI




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agenda.

Arun BiligiriOffering Management -

Application Insights IBM Cloud



for Dummies Series



Field Guide



Allan Wagner

Al Wagner is currently a Technical Evangelist with IBM, driving thought leadership, strategic

initiatives, and tangible solutions with a specific focus on continuous deployment and testing

within the larger DevOps topic. In his twenty years of practical IT field experience, Al has

assisted, supported, mentored, and enabled teams to solve their IT application infrastructure,

development, implementation, and operations challenges. In addition to being a frequent speaker

on adopting a DevOps approach to software delivery, Al has co-authored the IBM Application

Release and Deployment for Dummies book, IBM Service Virtualization for Dummies book, and

authored numerous papers on continuous testing and test automation..

Amy Silberbauer

Amy is a Solution Architect charged with the definition and delivery of the Enterprise Scaled Agile

and IBM DevOps Plan solutions and strategy for the IBM Systems – Application Platform line of

business. She is a recognized subject matter expert on scaled agile and software development

lifecycle solutions, including enterprise modernization, SOA and collaborative DevOps. She has

been with IBM for 28 years and has two decades of software development experience as an

engineer, architect and manager. She is a certified SAFe® Program Consultant experienced in

leading and consulting on multiple internal and external SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework®)

transformations.

Arun Biligiri

Arun Biligiri is the leader of the Application Performance Management Offering Management

team at IBM. Arun has over 20 years of experience in technology in various different roles

including entrepreneurial, development, product management and sales engineering. He has

worked closely with innovative enterprises and has extensive experience in addressing cloud,

analytics needs in efficiently managing their data centers and clouds. He has an MBA from the

Wharton School, and MS from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bhawana Gupta

Bhawana is an expert in the area of Rational Unified Process, Rational Requirements

Management and Architecture Management. She has consulted many software development

delivery teams in adopting Rational tools and methods. As a part of productivity increasing

measures across teams, she has implemented best practices for various types of projects. Her

experience ranges from supporting teams with RFP's, pilot projects for Rational tool adoption and

helping teams rollout a complete tool implementation engagement.

Christopher Lazzaro

Chris is a lead architect, building tools that enable developer productivity and operational

excellence in IBM Cloud. He strives to enable customers to make the digital transformation to the

cloud with DevOps tools, standards, practices, and the ecosystem needed to innovate faster than

their competition. Chris began his career with IBM Tivoli in 1998, building systems management

tools, and he has helped transition those capabilities into SaaS and cloud-native operations tools.

With a focus on innovative, leading-edge solutions, he has obtained recognition as an IBM

master inventor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/al-wagner-b024141

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-silberbauer-3a102043

https://twitter.com/abiligiri

https://www.linkedin.com/in/biligiri

https://twitter.com/Al_Wagner

https://twitter.com/LazzaroChris

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David K Zimmerman

Dave Zimmerman is IBM’s Global Solutions Executive & Worldwide Cloud Leader for Banking &

Financial Markets. He specializes in business model transformation to help clients better compete

and grow. He is accountable for IBM’s Global Cloud strategy, industry solutions offerings, clients’

support and partner development. Dave’s previous leadership roles included leading IBM’s

Worldwide Core Banking business and Global Vice President at Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young. Dave

has over 20-years delivery and engagement experience developed by working with clients on three

continents.

Eric Minick

Eric Minick is a Technical Evangelist. He joined IBM through its acquisition of UrbanCode. He has

spent the last more than ten years helping organizations – large and small – adopt continuous

integration, delivery and now –DevOps. He is a frequent speaker on the topic, and co-authored

Application Release and Deployment For Dummies. Prior to consulting, Eric was a developer, test

automation engineer and support engineer, and has contributed to multiple generations of

UrbanCode products. .

Jose Ortiz

Jose Ortiz works as a Senior Technical Staff Member and Software Architect in IBM’s Hybrid

Cloud Business Unit. He is currently helping to develop and evolve the new Cloud Automation

Manager offering. Previously, Jose spent 10 years as an Architect/Developer IBM, leading

solutions around virtualization and cloud enablement in products like WebSphere Cloudburst

Appliance, IBM Workload Deployment and PureApplication System. Jose also help with client

enablement worried to use and integrate those products. He is also a frequent conference

speaker. Originally from Puerto Rico, he now works and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Michael Elder

Michael is the IBM Distinguished Engineer for Continuous Delivery. Michael holds a B.S. in

Computer Science from Furman University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University

of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has numerous awarded patents and has been honored with two

IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. His passions include solving customer problems

to enable them to provide better experiences for their users.

Mustafa Kapadia

Mustafa is the Service Line Leader for IBM’s DevOps practice, a business advisory practice

focused on helping large enterprises transform their software & application delivery. He has over

17+ years of experience in the tech. space, both as a service provider and a management

consultant. His expertise is in DevOps, cloud, lean, application development, outsourcing,

offshoring etc. and has published several articles on DevOps. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area,

is an avid blogger (when time permits), a speaker, and advisor to start ups.

https://twitter.com/JoseOrtz73

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-ortiz-69226014

https://twitter.com/ericminick?lang=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericminick

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkzimmerman

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdelder

https://twitter.com/mdelder

https://twitter.com/MKapadiaTweets?lang=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapadiamustafa

Peter Eeles

Peter is an Executive IT Architect, IBM Hybrid Cloud, where he helps organizations improve their

IT delivery capability in order to drive tangible business value. He has a particular interest in the

adoption of Architecture, Agile, DevOps and Cloud as innovation enablers. In the IT industry

since 1985, Peter comes from a delivery background and was previously Chief Architect of IBM

Rational’s Worldwide Solution Delivery organization where he led many large-scale

transformations in a variety of industries. Peter has written many papers and several books,

including “The Process of Software Architecting” (2009), “Building J2EE Applications with the

Rational Unified Process” (2002), and “Building Business Objects” (1998). He runs his own

website at www.architecting.co.uk..

Rosalind Radcliffe

Rosalind is a Distinguished Engineer within the IBM Rational organization. She is Chief Architect

for CLM and DevOps. She is responsible for driving the DevOps for multi-platform

architecture. This includes System z and Power system. In addition she is responsible for the

architecture for the Collaborative Management capability for Enterprise solutions. This includes

UrbanCode Deploy and Rational Team Concert's support for standard Mainframe development

activities. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Master Inventor. Prior to

Rational, she was in Tivoli responsible for the SOA Management Strategy for IBM.

Sanjeev Sharma

Sanjeev is CTO and Distinguished Engineer for DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption in IBM

Cloud Unit. He is a 20-year veteran of the software industry with expertise in DevOps, Mobile

Development and UX, Lean and Agile Transformation, Application Lifecycle Management and

Software Supply Chains. He is a DevOps Thought Leader at IBM and speaks regularly at

conferences. He has written several papers and is the author of the DevOps for Dummies book.

Sarah Plantenberg

Sarah is a senior user experience designer located in San Francisco, California, where she has

designed for a broad range of clients, from start-ups to enterprises. Leveraging her cognitive

psychology and neuroscience background, Sarah's innovative designs have brought clients

closer to their users and improved user satisfaction. As the builder and leader of design teams,

Sarah's thought leadership has penetrated all levels of her clients' businesses. Sarah also helps

her clients achieve better overall business results by helping them apply design thinking

principles to team organization and development, organizational structure, and business

transformation.

Shajeer K Mohammed

Shajeer works as the lead architect for the IBM Cloud Orchestrator and is also part of the Cloud

Automation Manager Architecture team, He is currently working on developing the new Cloud

Automation Manager offering. He has more than 20 years experience and has worked in

Software development, Lab Services, Pre-Sales and Consulting roles. His core area of

specialties are on Cloud Management platforms, Systems and Service Management and

Application Performance Management solutions.

https://twitter.com/sd_architect?lang=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeevibm

https://twitter.com/SarahP_UXD

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-plantenberg-a568314

https://twitter.com/petereeles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-eeles-25568

https://twitter.com/RosalindRad

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalind-radcliffe-8196702

https://twitter.com/mshajeer

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