What the Dev?

In partnership with the DevOps Enterprise Summit, we spoke with Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, about how organizations can diagnose the health of their value stream. This has become an especially important subject now as the pandemic has emphasized the need for quick and effective value stream management.Kersten will be a keynote speaker on October 14th at the DevOps Enterprise Summit. Be sure to sign up for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas between October 13th -15th for expert talks and three full days of immersive learning!

In today's episode, Matt Martin, the CEO of Clockwise shares his insights on the moves that actually increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, along with tips on how to best incorporate diversity training, engage leadership, and measure your progress.

We spoke to John Allspaw, the principal and founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, a consulting company that helps organizations deal with data incidents, to talk about the growing concept of resilience engineering.In a nutshell, reverse engineering is concerned with adverse external events that can lead to system failure. It tests how much an organization can withstand stress and other challenging factors to continue performing its core functions and avoid loss of data.Be sure to check out Allspaw's talk at the DevOps Enterprise SummitLas Vegas on October 13th to learn more! 

In today's episode we spoke with Kevin Brennan, author of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, and Bob Galen, the president and principle agile coach at RGalen Consulting, about Agile and project management.

Peter Wang, CEO of Anaconda, talks about why data science is gaining so much attention lately, tools necessary for businesses to be successful, and how Python plays a role in all of it.

The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. We talk to Deb Goodkin, executive director of the foundation, about how the foundation got started and where it is going as well as some new resources for developers to take advantage of. 

In this week’s episode we’re speaking with Ensono’s VP of Product Management, Lin Classon (@lin_IRL), about how the representation of women speakers have improved over the years, what issues they face at in-person and in virtual conferences, and what work is still to be done.2020 Speak Up report: https://www.ensono.com/resources/speak-2020-redesigning-tech-conferences-women-mind 

In this week's episode, we talked about the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT) that measures fairness in large-scale AI applications with Senior Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Shriram Vasudevan and Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Cyrus Diciccio. 

In this week's episode, we spoke to Sandeep Sood, the CEO of Kunai, about the growth of embedded finance and its potential for major disruption. Sood's take is "if you're not a fintech company today, you're going to become one." Listen in to find out why!

In this week's episode we talk to Steve Pereira, the founder and CEO of Visible, about the importance for value stream mapping, how to get started, how to take it beyond 101, and what to look out for along the way. You can also listen to Pereira's Virtual VSM DevCon talk on value stream mapping here, register for next year's Virtual VSM DevCon conference on March 10, 2021, or continue the conversation on our Slack community.