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Metaphors, Monitoring and Metrics

About this event

We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule

18:00: Doors open

18:30 – 19:15: Tom Hoyland - Metaphors, Monitoring and Metrics: How a Platform Team changed the way they communicated to change they way they delivered products and services

19:15: Socialising

Speaker

Tom Hoyland (@thatagile)

With a background in engineering, product development and service transformation, Tom gets under the bonnet of products, teams, and organisations to understand what makes them tick and how they could be better.

Tom is an Expert Agile and DevOps practitioner, Coach and Mentor at Sky Betting & Gaming and That Agile.

Previously Tom has led Agile and Digital Transformations, building teams, growing capabilities and promoting cultures that reduce the lead time to business impact at the UK Home Office and across UK Police Forces.

Talk

Tired of ‘Waterfall’ vs ‘Agile’? Fed up with simplistic plans for complex work? Are you an Agile Coach stuck on the reporting treadmill? In this talk, we’ll show you how a platform team wrapped up concepts from DevOps, complexity, metaphors and Clean Language into a tidy package to change the way they worked - challenging their biases, considering brain chemistry, and finding new opportunities for scaling along the way (no… it’s not SAFe).

In this talk, you’ll see how we took a Platform Team on a journey to change how they understood risk, managed complexity, and overcame their biases when building new products, services and platforms.

You’ll see how the team challenged the language they used to communicate progress and risks, incorporating DevOps concepts to reduce ambiguity, increase transparency, and changed the way decisions were made.

We’ll reveal how we stopped Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads and Agile Coaches from becoming relays for information, by using concepts such as Clean Feedback to reduce the distance between what people thought was happening and what the ground truth was, with a few bots thrown in there for good measure!

You’ll hear about memory, the crucial details we leave on the editing room floor, and how we overcame this with a pinch of technology and team games to re-remember events, counter biases and increase creativity.

Like metaphors? We’ll cover them too - exploring the role they play in how we think about work, what we believe is possible, what might happen next, and how our models of the world constrain the way we work - with some excellent drawings from kids and grown-ups!

And we’ll show you some of the games we played with our teams to counter biases, with concepts such as Red Teaming and Reverse Thinking, increasing creativity and leveraging neurodiversity within our teams - Small patterns scaled up - and not a mention of SAFe in sight!

https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/september-2022/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-september-2022-tickets-391135154777

Thu 8th Sep 2022 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops @ Sky Betting and Gaming

Our event is generously hosted by Sky Betting and Gaming, with a talk starting at 18:30.

We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/sheffield-devops-april-2022-meetup/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-april-2022-tickets-308563219897

Thu 14th Apr 2022 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 14th Apr 2022 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/code-of-conduct/

March meetup

About this event
Our event is generously hosted by The Floow, with the talk starting at 18:30. As this is our first event back in a while, we're taking it a little easier with one talk and then some time to catch up with each other.

We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule
18:00: Doors open

18:30 – 19:15: Bartosz Debski (The Floow) Talk Title TBC

19:15: Socialising

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2022-tickets-265776232867

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2022-tickets-265776232867

Thu 10th Mar 2022 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 10th Mar 2022 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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The next Sheffield Devops event takes place at Kelham Island Musem on Thursday 12 March 2020 at 6pm.

Our event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open

6:30 - 7:15: Dave Porter (CTO at Tutorful)

"Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit"

7:15 - 7:30: Break

7:30 - 8:15: James Cutts (Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT)

"Building a new government service: devops in a small multidisciplinary team"


About the Speakers

Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit

See code examples and learn about tools you can use to automate infrastructure in AWS. In this talk, Dave describes how Tutorful are building the infrastructure for an online classroom using Typescript and Cloud Development Kit to automate deployment in AWS.
Dave Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at Tutorful. Coding since childhood, a Computer Science degree, and 20 years building distributed risk calculation systems and leading global teams at investment banks in London and Singapore, Dave is now helping to shape the technology at Tutorful.

Tutorful is a Sheffield based EdTech startup. It is the UK's largest online marketplace for finding a tutor for in-person or online private tuition. Tutorful makes it easy to find and have lessons with a trusted high-quality tutor.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/porterde/
https://tutorful.co.uk
The Trusted Way To Find A Private Tutor - Tutorful
With 100% satisfaction guaranteed and over 9000 tutors, Tutorful is the UK's leading place to find hand-picked, private tutors for any subject, any age, anywhere.

Building a new government service: devops in a small multidisciplinary team

Hive IT has been working with the Department for Education on delivering a new service for the dissemination of statistics through discovery, alpha and into a soon to launch public beta.

In this talk we’ll look at the challenges, successes and lessons learnt from developing a new service with a small team, and how adopting some of the devops principles has enabled fast iterations in response to user research and feedback.

Working for somebody else means you don’t always have full autonomy over your toolsets, we’ll look at how technology choices have been influenced, informed and changed over the course of development. Expect a lot of Azure from databases to devops, why you don't need to have Kubernetes and how to compromise between the perfect solution and the one that’s good enough to get the job done.

James Cutts, Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT
https://hiveit.co.uk/our-team/james-cutts/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2020-tickets-98388854713?aff=opentechcalendar

Sheffield Devops - March 2020

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place at Kelham Island Musem on Thursday 12 March 2020 at 6pm.

Our event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open

6:30 - 7:15: Dave Porter (CTO at Tutorful)

"Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit"

7:15 - 7:30: Break

7:30 - 8:15: James Cutts (Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT)

"Cool devops talk - TBC"


About the Speakers

Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit

See code examples and learn about tools you can use to automate infrastructure in AWS. In this talk, Dave describes how Tutorful are building the infrastructure for an online classroom using Typescript and Cloud Development Kit to automate deployment in AWS.
Dave Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at Tutorful. Coding since childhood, a Computer Science degree, and 20 years building distributed risk calculation systems and leading global teams at investment banks in London and Singapore, Dave is now helping to shape the technology at Tutorful.

Tutorful is a Sheffield based EdTech startup. It is the UK's largest online marketplace for finding a tutor for in-person or online private tuition. Tutorful makes it easy to find and have lessons with a trusted high-quality tutor.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/porterde/
https://tutorful.co.uk
The Trusted Way To Find A Private Tutor - Tutorful
With 100% satisfaction guaranteed and over 9000 tutors, Tutorful is the UK's leading place to find hand-picked, private tutors for any subject, any age, anywhere.

Cool devops talk - TBC

James Cutts, Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT
https://hiveit.co.uk/our-team/james-cutts/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2020-tickets-98388854713

Thu 12th Mar 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 12th Mar 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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www.sheffielddevops.org.uk

Sheffield Devops - February 2020

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place at the Ministry of Justice Sheffield Digital Studio on Thursday 13 February 2020 at 6pm.

Our event is generously hosted by the MoJ in their Digital Studio, and food/drinks provided by our regular sponsors Affecto Recruitment, and the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open

6:30 - 7:15: How the MoJ are enabling Digital Transformation using Kubernetes and Cloud Platform - Mike Willis

7:15 - 7:30: Break

7:30 - 8:15: Importance of great culture in engineering teams and how to grow it - Steve Wilson

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-february-2020-tickets-92687718461

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-february-2020-tickets-92687718461

Thu 13th Feb 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 13th Feb 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/code-of-conduct/

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The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 13 June 2019 at 6pm, at Ambulo cafe housed downstairs in the Millenium Gallery (Arundle Gate entrance).

Schedule
6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: James & Paul Ridgway - Running Ruby and Rails, purely serverless on AWS
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Andy Burgin - Kubernetes Transformation - A Case of History Repeating

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-june-2019-tickets-63058747411

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-june-2019-tickets-63058747411

Thu 16th May 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 16th May 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 14th March 2019, and this month we're celebrating International Women's Day 2019.

Our event is generously hosted by Sky Betting & Gaming, with refreshments provided on arrival and the first talk starting at 6:30pm. Please use the rear entrance of the Electric Works where someone will be present to sign you in.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Pauline Narvas - The importance of diverse teams in the technical workforce
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Claire Agutter - VeriSM: A service management approach for the digital age

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-celebrating-international-womens-day-2019-tickets-57871837223

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Sheffield Devops - May 2019 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 13th September and is generously sponsored and hosted by CMS, with food and beers, wines and soft drinks provided on arrival.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Paul from Nginx - a High Performance Web Server, Staic Cache and Reverse Proxy
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Martin W - Microsoft's Devops Journey

Thu 9th May 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 9th May 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

Sheffield Devops - April 2019 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 13th September and is generously sponsored and hosted by CMS, with food and beers, wines and soft drinks provided on arrival.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Paul from Nginx - a High Performance Web Server, Staic Cache and Reverse Proxy
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Martin W - Microsoft's Devops Journey

Thu 11th Apr 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 11th Apr 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

Sheffield Devops - June 2019 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 13th September and is generously sponsored and hosted by CMS, with food and beers, wines and soft drinks provided on arrival.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Paul from Nginx - a High Performance Web Server, Staic Cache and Reverse Proxy
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Martin W - Microsoft's Devops Journey

Thu 13th Jun 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 13th Jun 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

Sheffield Devops - March 2019 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 13th September and is generously sponsored and hosted by CMS, with food and beers, wines and soft drinks provided on arrival.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Paul from Nginx - a High Performance Web Server, Staic Cache and Reverse Proxy
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Martin W - Microsoft's Devops Journey

Thu 14th Mar 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 14th Mar 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

Sheffield Devops - January 2019 Meetup

Sheffield Devops - January 2098 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 13th September and is generously sponsored and hosted by CMS, with food and beers, wines and soft drinks provided on arrival.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Paul from Nginx - a High Performance Web Server, Staic Cache and Reverse Proxy
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Martin W - Microsoft's Devops Journey

http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-january-2019-meetup-tickets-53975221340

Thu 10th Jan 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 10th Jan 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 8th November - we’re in Kollider this month and kindly sponsored by Egress.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: James Ridgway - Immutable Servers: Building a deployment pipeline and deploying to EC2 Spot Instances
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Scott Storey - DevSecOps

About the Speakers

James Ridgway from The Floow - Immutable Servers: Building a deployment pipeline and deploying to EC2 Spot Instances

AWS Spot Instances offer “compute at up to 90% off” on the basis that the instance can be taken away with only two minutes warning! This talk will look at what it takes to implement an immutable servers pattern and a deployment pipeline using Packer, Terraform and Jenkins for running projects on EC2 Spot Instances.

Scott Storey is an Application Security Architect at Egress will be discussing the world of DevSecOps.

Venue

Kollider, 5th Floor, Barkers Pool House, Burgess Street, Sheffield, S1 2HF

Sponsors

Egress helps enterprises protect unstructured data to meet compliance requirements and drive business productivity. The company’s AI-powered platform enables users to control and secure the data they share.

https://www.egress.com/

More Info

If you’d like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.Look forward to seeing you there!

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Sheffield Devops - November 2018 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 8th November - we’re in the Electric Works Conference Room, kindly sponsored by Egress.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: James Ridgway - Immutable Servers: Building a deployment pipeline and deploying to EC2 Spot Instances
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Scott Storey - DevSecOps
Please note that entrance will be through the rear door. We’ll be around to let you in :-)

About the Speakers

James Ridgway from The Floow - Immutable Servers: Building a deployment pipeline and deploying to EC2 Spot Instances

AWS Spot Instances offer “compute at up to 90% off” on the basis that the instance can be taken away with only two minutes warning! This talk will look at what it takes to implement an immutable servers pattern and a deployment pipeline using Packer, Terraform and Jenkins for running projects on EC2 Spot Instances.

Scott Storey is an Application Security Architect at Egress will be discussing the world of DevSecOps.

Venue

Electric Works (please use the rear entrance), Sheffield Digital Campus, Sheffield S1 2BJ

Sponsors

Egress helps enterprises protect unstructured data to meet compliance requirements and drive business productivity. The company’s AI-powered platform enables users to control and secure the data they share.

https://www.egress.com/

More Info

If you’d like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.Look forward to seeing you there!

http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-november-2018-meetup-tickets-52107897123

Thu 8th Nov 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 8th Nov 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

Sheffield DevOps January Meetup

The first Sheffield Devops Meetup of 2017 is taking place on Thursday the 12th January 2017. We'll be at back at Nabarro LLP from 6:30pm onwards for an evening of devops discussion with refreshments provided on arrival.

http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-january-meetup-tickets-30503457663?aff=erellivmlt

Thu 12th Jan 2017 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 12th Jan 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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