Twin Cities Software Symposium
March 6 - 8, 2020
Solving Software Delivery Pain: What Hurts and Why it Matters
Friday - Mar 6 3:15 PM CST - JEFFERSON
There is pain inherent in development - monoliths, confusing deployment processes, conflict between dev/ops/business.
IT is hard and the pace of change now makes it even more difficult. Join Josh and Laine as they talk about how focusing on solving this pain can help in a lot of surprising ways - kickstarting DevOps, speeding up product delivery, and even enabling the business as a whole.
Laine Minor
IT & Human Architect
Josh Smith
Enterprise Architect
About Josh Smith
Josh has been in in IT for 15 years, as a developer, lead dev, tech lead, architect, and enterprise architect. He's worked on big teams, small teams, and been on a team of one. In the process of all of this, he's learned a ton, and he loves to mentor and share that information.
He also loves strategy – laying out plans and figuring out dependencies, which order to do things in. Included in this is a deep love of the complicated business + people + culture + tech (especially tech that makes people's lives easier) of IT strategy.