{"id":118,"date":"2017-04-27T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2017-04-27T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T17:53:58","slug":"agile-and-aws-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/agile-and-aws-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile and AWS: A Presentation at AWS Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-119\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mortaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-26-20.03.51.jpg?resize=429%2C241\" alt=\"Jon Hathaway and Alex Singh, presenters of Agile and AWS\" width=\"429\" height=\"241\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Wednesday night, I went\u00a0to a presentation on Agile and AWS\u00a0held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/AWS-LasVegas\/events\/236223578\/\">AWS Las Vegas<\/a>\u00a0at Innevation Center. The speakers were Jon Hathaway of <a href=\"https:\/\/hatech.io\/\">HATech<\/a>, and Alex Singh of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgagility.com\/\">OrgAgility<\/a>. The\u00a0presentation was\u00a0primarily a case\u00a0study of transitioning slot machine manufacturing giant IGT into having a lean, Agile DevOps team and company culture to support it. By\u00a0coaching the DevOps team in using Agile and AWS, they report that IGT reduced the time to upgrade slot machines on the floor from 18 months to 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a phenomenal reduction\u00a0in time, and I was very impressed with their results.<\/p>\n<h2>My One Takeaway<\/h2>\n<p>I took three pages of notes during the presentation. A lot of it was repeat information from my experiences with Agile, but\u00a0I always like to have one takeaway to share, and here&#8217;s the one I chose from last night:<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this particular DevOps team, each day was like a mini-iteration.<\/strong> They start the day with a standup, like most teams, but that standup plans the goals and tasks\u00a0for that day only. This keeps the team extremely flexible and able to solve problems. Multi-day tasks can be tackled, but\u00a0if they have a higher priority item come in, they can switch focus on that item for one day, then refocus on the next. This reduces the overhead from context-switching. Employees are already context-switching by going home at night, so\u00a0changing focus in the morning\u00a0doesn&#8217;t reduce more productivity.<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of other topics\u00a0and tons of information on using Agile and AWS, so much so that I felt almost like we were\u00a0cramming a 2-day session on Agile into 90 minutes! But it was a\u00a0very solid talk and both Alex and Jon were highly receptive to questions\u00a0from the attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night, I went\u00a0to a presentation on Agile and AWS\u00a0held by AWS Las Vegas\u00a0at Innevation Center. The speakers were Jon Hathaway of HATech, and Alex Singh of OrgAgility. The\u00a0presentation was\u00a0primarily a case\u00a0study of transitioning slot machine manufacturing giant IGT into having a lean, Agile DevOps team and company culture to support it. By\u00a0coaching the DevOps &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/agile-and-aws-presentation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[8,13,14],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8CvWE-1U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}