How do you combine risk-averse infrastructure, architecture, production support and shared services personnel, together with an agile pod of application developers, QA, product owners and business analysts, into a highly functional DevOps team? Learn how a Release Management team created a vital bridge to enable and optimize DevOps through frequent collaboration; targeted automation; continuous; real-time feedback; release orchestration and detailed metrics. This talk will show you how they opened the valve on their DevOps pipeline and ensured a strong, fast flow of software from planning to production..and how you can too.

With over 20 years of IT experience, including 14 at Lincoln Financial Group, Kevin has managed application development, production support and maintenance and release management teams. Kevin is currently responsible for outlining the enterprise release management practice with consistent processes and standard tools in support of Lincoln’s DevOps transformation.

Lisa K. Wells is the Vice President of Product Marketing at XebiaLabs. Leveraging more than 25 years of experience in software, Lisa is laser-focused on creating value in the software development pipeline, crafting go-to-market plans, honing company messaging, and spearheading general cat-herding activities. After starting her career as an Applications Engineer, she moved to the "Dark Side" – product marketing – where she developed a passion for helping companies effectively build, market, and sell technology that provides life-changing value to customers. Over the last 12 years, Lisa has been at the forefront of building winning product strategies and messaging for some of the world’s leading software tooling companies, working with SmartBear and CloudBees before joining XebiaLabs in 2015.