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Use Fast Feedback to Accelerate Business Agility w/ David Grabel Software engineers get feedback from their development environment and automated test suites in real-time. Errors can be fixed and verified in minutes. However, when organizations extend Agile beyond technology, feedback from stakeholders takes days and the 'feedback frenzies' can drag on for weeks or even months. Completing a story within a sprint seems impossible. It is time for 'the business' to dramatically reduce lead time and stop getting blamed for delays. This talk will show you how to quickly create a value stream mapping with your team. This map will expose needless delays and help you find ways to shorten cycle time to minutes, reducing overall lead time by 80% or more. It will include a way to overlay feedback loops on the value stream map, which can help you find the source of significant delays. You will also hear how creative teams are adapting mob programming techniques into their work in ways that build feedback into their processes in order to accelerate delivery from business teams. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies.

Toyota Kata - What is it. Where Might it Fit. and Why? Future solutions are getting less and less likely to be ones we've used before. And even if we can draw on 'experience', it may represent the lowest form of innovation which may not be good enough; we are limiting ourselves to only what we know now.Agile is about mindset, not about process. Mindset can support agile behaviors or can hinder them. Improvement exercises involve multiple people or groups working on different parts of the puzzle; how they understand customer needs and how they collaborate to create a cohesive whole can greatly influence success. So the most important question becomes, 'How might we develop an Agile mindset?'The connection between Agile and Toyota Kata is intriguing. When you look into why, it's actually quite plain and simple. Further, when you have an understanding of Toyota Kata, how it came about and why, then its potential value to those adopting Agile shines through even more so. You will recognize the potential of the 2 unintentionally hidden managerial routines at Toyota from which 'Toyota Kata' was born."One of the best, compact introductions to Toyota Kata that I've seen!" (Quote by Mike Rother, author of 'Toyota Kata', following a presentation by Oscar in Austin TX in Feb 2020.) In this session you will: See the connection between Agile and Toyota Kata and their common ancestry See why the most success in the future will come to those who can rapidly adapt and innovate Understand that a concept or model alone generally won't change behaviors (and why), but a practice routine will Understand the 2 'Kata' patterns and get a feel for how you can start your application of them, one in particular

Scaling with Simplicity - How to Eliminate Complexity in Large Agile Programs As agile thought leaders debate if agile at scale is really "agile" many of us who work in the trenches understand that scaling is sometimes necessary. We work in legacy environments and on complex codebases that require coordination. Our organizations may be working towards independent teams and a microservices architecture, but even the migrations required to get there demand scaling. This talk will help participants reduce complexity in scaled organizations and simplify their program framework. Attendees will receive actionable recommendations to help them execute more efficiently starting today. With a heavy focus on eliminating dependencies and effective planning, the presentation will help attendees bring simplicity to even the most complex scaled programs. Interspersed through the presentation will be real-life examples of successes and failures so attendees can understand how to put ideas into action. Attendees will also receive tips on influencing leadership to adopt these recommendations, empowering them to drive sustainable change. Key takeaways: How to simplify a program's operating model Tips for eliminating dependencies and managing through dependencies that can't be cut How to overcome two problems no amount of planning can solve for: bad requirements and unstable priorities Strategies to reduce the impact of prioritization changes How to influence the change necessary to build a better managed program

Big Agile: It's Not Just For Small Projects Anymore One of the stereotypes of Agile approaches is that they only work for small projects. However, over the last several years, Agile techniques are now being applied to increasingly larger and more complex environments. From the largest telecom in Europe to the largest chip-maker in the world, large organizations are changing the way they do work. But how is this possible? How does self-organization work for a thousand people? How do programs run without plans? How can a massive solution go to market in a matter of weeks? In this illuminating session, we will explore both a common, repeatable approach and case studies from the real world. Come learn both recent trends and actionable tips for growing out of small Agile to big Agile. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.

Creating Your Organization's Business Agility Strategy Optimally, your organization's business strategy and business agility strategy are completely coupled together, one seamlessly supporting the other. Practically, what many organizations experience today is a tug-of-war between their business strategy and this thing called 'business agility.' Or, a lack of business agility strategy altogether, leaving the business strategy more susceptible, and even fragile, when unforeseen changes inevitably occur. We need a way to think about business agility, coupled with business strategy, so that we can live into the reality of harnessing change for good. This session will expose you to a recently published body of work, Domains of Business Agility, which serves as a model for creating business agility strategy. Think of it as a skeleton, or a thinking tool. Used this way, the model allows leaders to answer the question, 'How much business agility do we need in various parts of our organization as a seamless support to our overall business strategy?' In this session, Lyssa Adkins, author of Coaching Agile Teams and Agile/Leadership Coach, leads you through the key steps for creating such a business agility/business strategy. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs.

Bridging the Gap with Agile Learn how a large cloud-computing enterprise used Flawless ExecutionSM, a remarkably scalable agile business framework, across diverse business teams including their Marketing Team, Legal Team, C-Suite and even the Sales Group functional teams that are notorious for avoiding agile methodologies. As part of a major merger, the company sought to unite two sales teams that were not strategically aligned and didn't have a customer-focused mindset. Just as agile methodologies help developers keep the customer at the forefront of the conversation, this sales organization used the agile techniques and practices of Flawless ExecutionSM, to align around the customer's needs, scale best practices, and shift the culture to a more customer-centric mindset. Result: after an abysmal first half in 2016, the team rallied together after implementing Flawless Execution as their process of record over the summer and beat their sales forecast by 17% in Q4. This had an impact on morale for the 22,000-person company and even increased the stock price by 10%. This and other IILLearning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topicsmay qualify for othercontinuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Somelimitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities andassociated policies.

Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for Cloud Solutions Architects  DevOps Engineers  Individuals using Google Cloud Platform who deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions Overview At course completion, you will have attained knowledge of: Fundamentals of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Google Cloud Storage Google Compute Engine Google Cloud SQL Load Balancing (LB) Google Cloud Monitoring Auto-Scaling Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) Cloud CDN and DNS Cloud VPN Google Cloud Deployment Manager Google Container Engine Cloud Run Cloud Bigtable Cloud Datastore Cloud BigQuery Cloud DataFlow Cloud DataProc Cloud Pub/Sub In this course you will attain a deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and design patterns on developing applications on GCP. This course will prepare you for the Google Cloud Architect Associate Certification Exam. Fundamentals of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Overview Regions and Zones Review of major GCP services Google Cloud Storage Fundamental APIs Consistency Cloud Storage Namespace Buckets and Objects Bucket and Object Naming Guidelines Encryption Object Versioning Object Lifecycle Management Access Control Access Control Lists Signed URL Multipart upload Resumable upload Understanding Pricing for Cloud Storage Offline Media Import/Export Architecture case study of common Use Cases of Google Cloud Storage Hands-on: Cloud Storage Lab; Creating Buckets, objects, and managing access control Google Compute Engine Compute Engine Architecture VM Instances types Persistence Disks Images Generating Custom Images IP Addresses Static IPs Ephemeral Access Control Options IAM Service Account Monitoring Instances with Google Cloud Monitoring Compute Engine Networks and Firewalls Hands-on: Hosting an Application on Compute Engine Google Cloud SQL Core advantages of Cloud SQL Cloud SQL database instance types Access Control High availability options Failover Read replica Backup options On Demand Automated Understanding Pricing of Cloud SQL Load Balancing (LB) Fundamentals of a Load Balancer Network Load balancing HTTPS Load balancing Cross region Load balancing Content Load balancing Target proxies SSL Load Balancing Internal Load Balancing Network Load Balancing Understanding Pricing for Load Balancer Google Cloud Monitoring Architecture of Cloud Monitoring Supported metrics Stackdriver Monitoring APIs Auto-Scaling Overview of Autoscaling Auto-scaling Fundamentals Instance groups Templates Policies Decisions Hands-on: Deploying a scale application on GCP using Autoscaling, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Load Balancers. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network Salient features of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network Infrastructure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Networking Fundamentals Subnetworks Firewall Internal DNS Network Routes Hands-on: Hosting Secure Applications in Google Cloud VPC Networks Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) Introduction User and Service Accounts IAM Roles Policy Hands-on: Managing Users, Policies and Granting Roles using Service Accounts Cloud CDN and DNS What is CDN Google Cloud CDN Cloud CDN Concepts Some of the Cloud CDN Edge locations Cloud DNS Cloud DNS Terminologies Supported Record Types Hands-on: Moving an Existing Domain Name to Cloud DNS Cloud VPN Cloud VPN overview Types of Cloud VPN Specifications Maintenance and Availability Google Cloud Deployment Manager Deployment Manager Deployment Manager Fundamentals Runtime Configurator Quotas Hands-on: Generating and Creating Cloud Deployment Manager Template Google Container Engine Google Container Engine Overview Docker Overview Kubernetes Terminologies Replication Controller Deployment Price and Quotas Hands-on: Deploying WordPress Cluster using Container Engine Cloud Run Overview of Cloud Run Deploy a Prebuilt Sample container Cloud Bigtable Overview of Cloud Bigtable Access Control Performance Locations Cloud Datastore Overview of Cloud Datastore Limits Storage Size Multitenancy Benefits of Multitenancy Encryption Locations Cloud BigQuery BigQuery Overview Interacting with BigQuery Datasets, Tables, and Views Partitioned Tables Query Plan Explanation Hands-on: Getting Started with BigQuery Cloud DataFlow Overview Programming Model DataFlow SDK 1.x for java Cloud Dataflow SDK 2.x Security and Permissions Advanced Access Control Cloud DataProc Overview Clusters Versioning Cloud Pub/Sub Overview of Cloud Pub/Sub Pub/Sub Concepts and Message Flow Data Model Cleanup of All Services Hands-on: Cloud Pub/Sub Lab with Background Cloud Function Additional course details: Nexus Humans Google Cloud Engineer Associate Certification Bootcamp training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Google Cloud Engineer Associate Certification Bootcamp course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

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