This talk is inspired by the book ‘The Confidence Code’ by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.

What is confidence and how do you know you have it?   While confidence is partly influenced by genetics, it is not a fixed psychological state.  However, you won’t discover it thinking positive thoughts or by simply squaring your shoulders and faking it.  It requires work and choices: less focus on people pleasing and perfectionism and more action, risk taking and fast failures.  This is why it can seem harder for women because these behaviors aren’t typically the ‘norm’ for women but generally come naturally for men.

In this talk we will explore the roots of confidence and the gender gap between men and women.  To ground the learnings, we will also hear interview summaries from four great and diverse women in agile: 

 Lyssa Adkins, Esther Derby, Ellen Grove, and Kat Conner

As organizations begin to work on numerous services and components many are faced with a new set of challenges.  Adding to these challenges is the ever increasing remote and distributed workforce.  This places a significant operational and tooling overhead on standard development teams. Each team needs its own pipeline, monitoring-alerting, on-call staff, etc.  It is not enough for teams to be agile in coding and systems, teams need to understand how a change can affect a distributed system.  With new service frameworks focusing on community pipelines, enhanced collaboration, and team ownership, sanity can exist.  Pipeline as a Service can help force organizations transformation into Community DevOps.

In this session we will discuss how Community DevOps can enable teams to mange the complexity of modern development from ideation to production.  We will discuss how pipeline as a service provides the right balance of ownership from a single team to an enterprise, the technical components and how to avoid common pitfalls.