While microservice architectures allowed teams to scale delivery of independently deployable services, most frontend layers are still run as monolithic applications. Similar to server-side applications, frontend layers often grow into large monoliths that are difficult to maintain and evolve. Building, deploying and consuming frontend components across a diversity of teams and web applications can be a daunting task, especially at scale. To address this issue, at OpenTable we enable fast-moving teams to easily build and deploy front-end components using OpenComponents, an open-source, battle tested, front-end microservice architecture for painless component delivery.

The idea behind micro frontends is to enable multiple teams to work seamlessy together by fostering end-to-end ownership of independently developed, tested and deployed features.

Think about UI as the composition of features which are maintained by independent teams. These teams could be cross-functional allowing them to develop such features end-to-end, from a database to user interface and independently deploy them.

During this session I'll explain how OpenComponents works, how do we use it at OpenTable and how we allows teams to build ship and consume frontend components at runtime across teams and web applications at scale.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the Internet. Quickly scale up and down with demand and pay only for what you use.

In this demo, we will explain and demonstrate

1. Infrascture as a Code - Key DevOps practice
2. Azure - Key Concepts
3. Script Infrastructure as code
4. Provision Infrastructure
5. Compare and Contrast Azure with other Cloud Providers like AWS / GCP

Adding value to Scrum projects as a Project Manager isn't easy. The common Scrum tenor is that the role "Project Manager" shouldn't exist, not in title and even less so in spirit. However, reality is that PMs or roles with traditional project management responsibilities are still more prevalent than agile servant-leader Scrum Masters or Kanban Flow Managers.
So, if you find yourself in a position of being an [Agile] Project Manager or in a similar role, join my session to learn how you can add value and foster an agile system at the same time with Kanban. You will leave the session with hands-on techniques that you can implement the very next day to improve the way you and your team works!

A lot of organizations don't have version control systems in place for the database. Even if they are, change scripts are being generated manually for deployment process causing significant risks to the releases. In this demo, we will demonstrate patterns that can be used for taking care of database deployments and minimizing the risks

Shared Services Teams, such as DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, Networking, etc., for a variety of reasons do not receive agile training and coaching specific to their needs. This often results in failure to consistently deliver expected outcomes, resulting in costly delays in overall delivery, often undetected until it is too late.

Shared Services Teams are expected to simultaneously:
- build assets, such as delivery pipelines, networking, cloud, infrastructure, etc. on time and on budget, and
- support Agile Development Teams and Operations, often at short notice.

These two different types of tasks are typically managed in the same way and usually as a dual priority Kanban, which is not addressing their different nature, thus causing costly delivery delays.

This talk explores this Dual Nature of work and the difficulties arising from addressing both types by a single team. The lecture presents experience with Coaching different types of Shared Services Teams.

It shows ways how their specific needs can be addressed at various agile maturity levels, including areas such as Governance, Capacity Optimisation, Supplier Reliability and Support Mix Optimisation.

Most organizations and teams talk about DevOps practices. Most of them might find it difficult on how to get it started. If you are a Microsoft shop, this would be a good session for you and your team. In this session, we will demonstrate different DevOps practices using Visual Studio Team Services & Docker