Tuesday, May 22, 2018

** 5/22 DevOps Game moved to 9/17/2018 **

NY SPIN List member,

Important news:

We and Dana Pylayeva have moved her DevOps Game from 5/22 to Monday, 9/17/2018.  

Same time and location:

When: Mon, 9/17/2018, 5:30 to 7:45 pm. 

Where: ThoughtWorks, 99 Madison Ave, between 29th and 30th Streets, 15th Floor

Get details and signup early for limited seating:
   https://nyspin201809.eventbrite.com/?aff=NL

With appreciation,

-Your NY SPIN Board


Thursday, May 17, 2018

5/22 DevOps Game is postponed until the Fall

List member,

We and Dana Pylayeva are postponing our 5/22 meeting until the Fall.

We are inviting each of you to send us suggestions over the next six weeks (during the rest of May and all of June) for planning the next season of monthly meetings. 

What speakers would you like to return next year?  Which thought leader or teachers would be worth inviting back or inviting for the first time? 

The new season will start in September.  Let's get it planned and buttoned up over the summer.

-NY SPIN Board (Richard Kuper, Marc Fiedler, and Bill Greenbaum)

Monday, May 14, 2018

5/22, 5:30-7:45 pm in NYC: Dana Pylayeva's DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game

Organizational change could cause fear, bring havoc and face strong resistance.  What if there were a way to ease into the change and help your teams (and your management) grasp the value of DevOps adoption?  

Join this workshop and experience a way to learn the benefits of DevOps culture through a simulation game. Use role cards, avatars, LEGO and chocolate to visualize bottlenecks in the value delivery flow as well as build empathy for different roles involved in the process.

You will learn to expand the boundaries of individual roles, acquire T-shaped skills and expand the Development team circle to include Operations and Security. We will simulate building and patching environments and protect them from Hackers’ attacks. Through the game, we will transition to continuous value delivery, shorten feedback loop and accelerate the response to the ever-changing market demands.

Details and signup: https://nyspin201805.eventbrite.com?/aff=AL

Brief Bio: Dana is an Agile Coach, trainer, author and international speaker with over 17 years of diverse IT experience. Keen interest in DevOps culture and experience in Gamification all come together in Dana's game and book “Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game”.

Dana is passionate about collaboration and helping teams improve. She is a certified Training from the Back of the Room trainer, Open Space and Retrospectives facilitator, CSM, CSP, CSPO, Certified LeSS Practitioner and the founder of Big Apple Scrum Day conference. Last month, she delivered a keynote to Agile Games 2018 in Boston.  Dana currently works at Hudson's Bay Company.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Organizational change could cause fear, bring havoc, and face strong resistance. What if there was a way to ease into the change and help your teams (and your management) grasp the value of DevOps adoption?

Join this workshop and experience a way to learn about the benefits of DevOps culture through a simulation game. Use role cards, avatars, LEGO and chocolate to visualize bottlenecks in the value delivery flow as well as build empathy for different roles involved in the process. You will learn to expand the boundaries of individual roles, acquire T-shaped skills and expand the Development team circle to include Operations and Security.

We will simulate building and patching environments and protect them from Hackers’ attacks. We will transition to continuous value delivery, shorten feedback loop and accelerate the response to the ever-changing market demands.

SPACE IN THIS AMAZING WORKSHOP IS LIMITED.

More details: meetup.com/nyspin/events/250089106/