Presentation: Tweet"Even Faster: How Rugged DevOps & SW Supply Chains Attack Developer Waste"

With continuous development, we write less code and consume more re-usable open source code. We are getting faster and more efficient. But this innovation also accelerates complexity and complexity is the enemy of quality. Poor quality creates unplanned/unscheduled work. Re-work creates a drag on development speed. It’s a continuous loop.

Couple this complexity with the fact that this past year was open season on open source. Heartbleed, Bash Bug, Shellshock… For many it took days, weeks, even months to determine if they were impacted, where they were impacted and then make the appropriate fixes. That’s a lot of unplanned work. And those are just the vulnerabilities that made the headlines.

The good news: other industries have figured this out with supply chain management. Applying supply chain approaches to software raises the bar on continuous goals.

A few of the patterns we can take from the rigor of things like the Deming and Toyota Supply Chain:

• Scrutinize the number and quality of your "suppliers" - and highest quality parts from those suppliers
• Improve traceability and visibility
• Ensure prompt agile responses when things go wrong

Josh will show that you can deliver applications on-time (even faster), on-budget (even more efficiently) and with a natural byproduct of higher quality and less risk by embracing supply chain principles as you embrace micro-services, containers, and continuous everything...

Prerequisite attendee experience level: beginner, but it is helpful to know a bit about application security and why it tends to cause cost and friction for Development and Operations.