Las Vegas 2022

Agile/DevOps Transformation at QRG (Using Team Topologies, Improvement Kata, and Dojos at scale)

Nagesh Kapalavayi of Qurate Retail Group joins John Ediger of DXC Technology to discuss how patterns such as Team Topologies, Dojos, and Improvement Kata (among others) have helped propel QRG's DevOps/Agile transformation journey.This journey describes not only how to take advantage of these leading practices and patterns but also describes key ingredients of the secret sauce for getting outcomes from DevOps/Agile transformationsLeveraging Gene Kim’s original three ways of DevOps (fast flow, feedback loops, and continuous improvement), the leadership team is embracing these principles broadly across QRG's product and technology organization to increase speed, agility and value.Nagesh and John will show the top ten transformation themes and dive into a handful of these, discussing highlights and learnings so they may be leveraged by other organizations for their transformation journeys.

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John Ediger

DevOps/Agile Transformation Leader and Distinguished Technologist, DXC Technology

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Nagesh Kapalavayi

Director, DevOps Engineering & LACE, Qurate Retail Group (QRG)

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Alison Vernamonti

Enterprise Agile Coach, QRG