Vivit Espresso Talks

Espresso Talks welcomes Don Jackson, Chief Technologist, Application Delivery Management at Micro Focus! He has over 20 years’ experience in lifecycle management (agile, iterative, and waterfall), functional automation, and performance engineering. In this episode we will be talking about this years Universe 2022 running March 22-23 (Americas & EMEA) and April 5-7 (APJ), sharing his insights in the ADM portfolio and what is coming down the ADM release train!

 

Micro Focus Introduces the ValueEdge platform. The ValueEdge platform delivers value stream management, from strategy to delivery. This flexible, cloud-based managed service powers the entire software product lifecycle. This AI-powered platform seamlessly works with existing commercial and open-source software development tools to align strategic business objectives with software resource investment. It optimizes production efficiency, mitigates risk, and maximizes ROI across an organization. A flexible design allows customers chose a single ValueEdge service or the entire platform that can be customized to meet any organization’s unique needs.

 

Find out more at: https://bit.ly/ValueEdge

Espresso Talks welcomes Anna Murray, Director of Product Management at ASG Technologies a Rocket company!  She is an energetic product manager with excellent cross-functional communication skills. Passionate about customer satisfaction. Able to conceive innovative solutions to satisfy customers while adhering to the corporate vision and deadlines. A pragmatic natural leader who is adaptive and team-oriented with a can-do attitude and the ability to quickly learn and apply new knowledge.

ASG Technologies Group, Inc. provides global organizations with a modern approach to Digital Transformation to succeed in the Information Economy. ASG is the only solutions provider for both Information Management and IT Systems.

Espresso Talks welcomes Yarden Naveh, VP of Customer Success & Support at Applitools!  He is an experienced Vice President of Customer Success with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in many programming languages including Java, JS, C# and more, Management, and Optimization. Strong Customer Success professional with a track record of building a successful CS department from the bottom up.

Applitools is on a mission to help Test Automation, DevOps and Development teams release and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps. It is the only commercial-grade, visual AI-based cloud engine that validates all the visual aspects of any Web, Mobile and Native app in a fully automated way. It supports Continuous Deployment in multi-device, multi-browser environments.

Espresso Talks welcomes Sarah Saunders, Managing Software Engineer from Capgemini. Winner of the Women in IT Excellence Award!  

Sarah is a Senior Developer at Capgemini. Designing and building performant, maintainable, cloud-native distributed systems in Java and C# with a DevOps mindset. Worked at all levels of the technology stack from shell scripting to agile coaching. Interested technologist, enjoys staying abreast of current trends.

She is also an amazing conference speaker and headlined in last years Vivit Virtual Community Days (VCD 2.0)!

Espresso Talks welcomes Bertold Kolics, Software Quality Manager at Mabl. He is an engineer at heart who enjoys solving both technical and non-technical problems. I am a true believer in servant leadership and work hard to create an atmosphere where engineers can strive and prosper.

I pay close attention to and rely on the engineers on the team as they often have insightful suggestions about improving the product and processes. I also act as the cheerleader of the team as engineers - in quality assurance in particular - have the tendency to assume the worst. Building a trusting relationship with the team is critical to my success. 

Mabl was a sponsor at Testing-Festival.com last month which is now available on-demand (https://bit.ly/3vV0f2i)

Espresso Talks welcomes Iwona Winiarska, Agile Coach from Automation Logic to our Women in Technology podcast series. 

Iwona (https://www.linkedin.com/in/iwonawiniarska/) is a passionate Agile Coach, Delivery and Management Consultant and Finalist of the Women in Tech Excellence Awards 2020.

Her professional background is 15 years of experience in technology. She has built products, digital services and delivered multi-national programmes across many continents.

Now she leads Digital Transformation programmes in the public and private sectors helping organisations and teams improve their ways of working, apply user-centred approach and achieve desired business outcomes through innovative technology solutions.

She manages senior stakeholder relationships helping them define and communicate strategic objectives and empowers teams to deliver value to the users/customers quickly and often.

In her free time, Iwona is a regular speaker at Agile & DevOps conferences, Agnostic Agile member and event organiser, trainer, and mentor within the Women in Tech Mentoring Programme.

Her talk on The Challenges of Human-Centred Design in the DevOps Environment featured at last year's Virtual Community Days (VCD 2.0) and is now available on-demand (https://youtu.be/vEx96V_bsts)

Espresso Talks welcomes Micro Focus Platinum Partner Whitlock and is joined by Kate Seamans, Director of Service Management previously Micro Focus / HPE AMS Practice Manager SMA.  

Kate has extensive experience in the IT Service Management industry, currently studying for her ITIL v4 course, always learning and sharing her extensive knowledge on Enterprise Service Management.

In this Women in Technology episode, we explore the paradigm of going from working for an enterprise-scale organization trying to implement ITSM, to her journey to Micro Focus who made the software to Whitlock been a strategic partner who now helps global customers implement ITSM.

Sponsored by: Whitlock

Founded in 2003, with the clear commitment to:

Our Position: Helping global enterprise IT identify, plan, and deliver Next-Generation IT Operations

Our workplace: Attracting, developing and retaining the most talented and caring professionals within our industry, and continually promoting their personal growth.

Our thinking: Differentiating ourselves with a valuing others approach that emphasizes effective listening, accountability, results, and, above all else, the highest ethical and professional standards.

Our performance: Our passion is performing as expected, and we have well-defined processes that address both elements of our passion, namely, the explicit understanding of your criteria for success, and the corresponding and requisite elements of a successful engagement.

Our operations: Managing our business in such a way that we continue to achieve superb and sustainable financial performance while adhering to the business-to-business requirements of our clients and partners.

Our attitude: “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” We exemplify affirmative thinking and enthusiasm knowing full well that without these we don’t stand a chance of realizing our goal (and frankly, neither do you).

Contact us: [email protected] or 919-941-1900

Espresso Talks welcomes Laveena Ramchandani, Consultant at Deloitte UK to our Women in Technology podcast series. Laveena is a senior tester with a comprehensive understanding of tools available for software testing and analysis. Currently, she is testing a data science-based model. In her words “data science” has always thrilled me to exceed and learn further about it. She finds the world of testing very interesting and enjoy exploring and learning new skills within it. She would like to share her knowledge and help those who attend the session take away something that could help them in their day to day testing exercises.

Her talk on Testing a Data Science Model featured at last year's Virtual Community Days (VCD 2.0) and is now available on-demand (https://youtu.be/a-QqrKQGF2g)

Espresso Talks welcomes CTO, Technology Leader, Business Agility Coach, Conference Chair & Keynote Speaker, Giles Lindsay. A UK leading practitioner in Scaled Agile Delivery, as well as a Certified Enterprise Agile Coach, speaking at Agile conferences globally and delivering huge numbers of projects of exceptional quality. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gileslindsay/)

In this episode, Giles talks about the celebration of the Agile turning 20 on 12th February 2021 and the exclusive Vivit sponsored event (Global Agile20Reflect Festival Event - An Agile Manifesto Futurespective | Meetup).

Make sure you register now at Agile20.org for the upcoming An Agile Manifesto Futurespective on February 12th from 5pm until 8pm GMT! The event is totally free and our incredible line-up includes...

For our Futurespective Panel Event:• Brian Marick• Ray Arell• Jurgen Appelo• Geoff Watts

For our 15 min TED style lightning talks:• Mark Lines• Jurgen Appelo• Geoff Watts• Brian Marick

For our closing Keynote:• Laura M. Powers

This event will allow attendees to voice their opinions, views, as well as their experiences of Agile Ways of Working over the last 20 years and they will also get the opportunity to discuss what the future holds for Agile moving forwards. It will also give attendees a chance to network and collaborate with others in a global agile community setting.

#WeSupportYou#EspressoTalks Rocky Pisto is our Vivit Engage Coodinator & LUG Leader ([email protected]) He has been a vivit member for over 20 years, sharing his wisdom on the change of landscape from OpenView, Mercury, HP, HPE and Microfocus. Check out this epictastical episode (linkedin.com/in/rockypistovppci/)