Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada

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Wed 29 May 2019 11:00 - 12:30 at Mansfield / Sherbrooke - Analyzing Flow to Measure Value in Software Delivery Chair(s): Sebastian Uchitel

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Analyzing Flow to Measure Value in Software Delivery

Time: Wednesday, May 29, 11:00-12:30

Mik Kersten

Tasktop

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Projects, org charts and software architecture are the best representations of value creation we have today. They are insufficient to support the scale and complexity of the software that is powering more and more of the world economy. In this talk, Dr. Kersten will propose a new set of abstractions for understanding and improving how software is built. He will introduce the concept of Value Stream Networks, which provide a set of models that span beyond the software architecture to include all of the artifacts involved in building software, from business idea to customer support. He will then show how we can visualize and operate on this new model in order to gain insights into the ground truth of what flows through organizations delivering software, and how we can improve that flow using the Flow Framework(tm). Kersten will summarize his experiences from open source, building a successful startup, and supporting some of the larges Agile and DevOps transformations in order to propose ideas for the research and practices still needed to better understand and manage software delivery at scale.

Dr. Mik Kersten started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he created the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development tools with Agile and DevOps as part of his Computer Science PhD at the University of British Columbia. Founding Tasktop out of that research, Mik has written over one million lines of open-source code that are still in use today, and he has brought seven successful open-source and commercial products to market. Mik’s experiences working with some of the largest digital transformations in the world has led him to identify the critical disconnect between business leaders and technologists. Since then, Mik has been working on creating new tools and a new framework for connecting software value stream networks and enabling the shift from project to product.