Tomorrow is the premiere of "Scaling Continuous Delivery" at GeeCon 2014

Tomorrow on the 15th of May Ive got a talk at GeeCon in Krakow. Its the first outing of my new talk Scaling Continuous Delivery. The talk is an experience report on all the struggles we have had scaling our continuous delivery rollout. Hopefully the talk will provide an insight to what we have done and the steps we have taken while scaling. Sometimes its not just the end goal that is interesting but also the journey.

Hopefully its will be appreciated.

Here are the slides for the talk  http://www.slideshare.net/TomasRiha/scaling-continuous-delivery-geecon-2014

New Talk: Continuous Testing

April 29th I will be visiting HiQ here in Gothenburg. I will have the opportunity to talk about the super important subject of Continuous Delivery and Testing.  This talk is a intro level talk that describes Continuous Delivery and how we need to change the way we work with Testing.

If anyone else is interested in this talk then please dont hesitate to contact me. The talk can be focused on a practitioner audience as well digging in a bit deeper into the practices. 

Here is a brief summary of the talk.

Why do we want to do Continuous Delivery

Introduction to Continuous Delivery and why we want to do it. What we need to do in order to do it, principles and practices and a look at the pipe. (Part of the intro level talk)

Test Automation for Continuous Delivery

Starting with a look on how we have done testing in the past and our efforts to automate it. Moving on to how we need to work with Application Architecture in order to Build Quality In so that we can do fast, scaleable and robust test automation.

Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery

How we need to look work in a Test Driven way in order to have our features verified as they are completed. A look at how Test Architecture helps us define who does what.

Exploratory Testing and Continuous Delivery

In our strive to automate everything its easy to forget that we still NEED to do Exploratory Testing. We need to understand how to do Exploratory Testing without doing Manual Release Testing. The two are vastly different

Some words on Tooling

Alot of time discussions start with tools. This is probably the best way to fail your test automation efforts.

Areas Not Covered

Before we are done we need to take a quick look at Test Environments, Testing Non Functional Requirements, A/B Testing, Power of Metrics. (This section expands in the practitioner level talk)

Upcoming talks

I've gotten the honor to speak at two fantastic conferences this spring.

First one is PipelineConf 8th of april in London where I will talk about the people side of Continuous Delivery. This is the talk Ive had at Netlight EDGE and JDays Conferences though its been update with the experiences from the last 6-8 months of working with Continuous Delivery.

The second one is GeeCon 14th-16th may in Krakow Poland where I will be speaking about Scaling Continuous Delivery. This is a new talk that focuses on lessons learned from our journey to scale continuous delivery from a team of 5 to an organization of 100s.

If you are interested in hearing me speak at a conference, seminar or a workshop. Dont hesitate to contact me.

Its about the people.

Last week I attended QCon New York. Fantastic conference as usual and it was comforting to see that basically everyone was saying the same thing. "Continuous Delivery is not about the technology, its about the people". Which also happens to be the title of my talk at Netlight´s EDGE conference in september,

In his talk Steve Smith (@agilestevesmith) talked about how 5% is technology and 95% is organization. While I agree with that I think that the non-technical 95% can be divided into organization, change of role definitions and individual maturity. Its these three that my talk will cover.

Hopefully I will be able to have this talk in Gothenburg as well as its been submitted to JDays.

Talk at HiQ 24th of April

Continuous Delivery - Enabling Agile.

The key to agile development is a fast feedback loop. Continuous Delivery strives towards always having tested releases in deliverable state. Continuous Delivery is not just a technical process but a change to the entire organization and the individuals within it. This presentation describes the principles of Continuous Delivery, a brief overview on how it can be implemented, how it changes the organization and how it impacts the individuals.

Target audience for this presentation is Developers, Architects, Testers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers and Product Owners in no particular order. The presentation is not rich in technical detail and based on real life experiences.

Please use this post to provide questions and feedback.

Welcome

Tomas

Link to the presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/TomasRiha/continuous-delivery-hi-q

Talk at ÅF Consult 2013-01-12

On Tuesday the 12 January I have a talk about Continuous Delivery at  ÅF Consult, Gothenburg.

This is the agenda of the day.

1. Intro to Continuous Delivery
2. Principles of Continuous Delivery
3. Look at a Pipe
4. Impact on Scrum
5. Feature Driven Development
6. Impact on Developers and Testers

Participants please use this post for feedback and any questions that you didn't get a chance to ask and would like me to answer.

The slides from the presentation can be found here.