Velocity 15 Minute Booth Session - Building a Performance Team - Dave Murphy

This document provides an overview of Innovative Integration, including that they are a privately held IT solutions company with over 284 collective years of experience in IT. They focus on core competencies like virtualization, application delivery, messaging/collaboration, and managed services. Their services are designed to help align IT with business goals and they strive to become a trusted advisor to their clients. The document discusses their organizational structure, core partners, competencies, and branded managed services offerings.

This document introduces LeadingEdge, an IT services company established in 1999 with headquarters in Ashford, Surrey. It provides a range of IT services including strategy, delivery, and support. LeadingEdge aims to listen to customers' business needs and support their goals through innovative IT solutions. It prides itself on taking ownership of any customer problems and going above and beyond to help. LeadingEdge works with customers across various industries such as retail, medical, sports, leisure, legal, accounting, and creative. The document outlines LeadingEdge's broad range of IT services covering areas like strategy, support, delivery, infrastructure, telecoms, hosting, and software development.

The document discusses the benefits of collaboration in software asset management. It describes how the University Software Licensing Community collaborates to reduce costs and optimize software investments. Members include over 100 people from 40+ universities across Australia and New Zealand. Through collaboration, the community has negotiated software contracts, developed best practices, and established tools and annual meetings for information sharing. Working as a group allows members to leverage their combined expertise, avoid being divided by vendors, and achieve results greater than any one member could alone.

Tom Lounibos, Founder and CEO, SOASTA talks about their use of AWS to power website testing at the AWS Start-Up Event Seattle 2009.

Catchpoint Systems provides a monitoring as a service platform to help companies discover performance problems before customers are impacted. Their approach involves measuring key metrics, analyzing the data to identify issues, and optimizing performance. Catchpoint claims their solution can triage and troubleshoot problems in minutes, identify 99% of issues before customers are affected, and find major release problems in seconds. They aim to help companies catch performance problems early, optimize websites to run faster, and lower IT operation costs.

There is a digital transformation underway powered, in part, by the adoption of mobile. In this shifting landscape of increasingly fickle and distracted consumers, maintaining competitive advantage is more important than ever. Competitive positioning is a relative art, defined differently for every business. But what's absolute is the science of digital customer experience and human behavior. A 500 millisecond delay results in significant user frustration A 250 millisecond difference in user experience between competitors is all it takes to create advantage (or loss) The reality is that faster pages drive higher engagement, but getting there takes comparative vigilance and constant feedback to development and digital teams. So what signals should you watch to stay ahead? How can you create meaningful comparisons to other web and mobile experiences? Watch the webcast for ideas you can use to out-maneuver your digital competitors with front-end performance intelligence.

This document discusses the "dark side" of Lambda expressions in Java 8. It notes that while Lambda expressions allow for more concise code, they can make debugging more difficult since the bytecode generated no longer closely matches the source code written. This is due to the JVM remaining oblivious to Lambda expressions. The distance between source code and bytecode is even greater for languages like Scala, JavaScript, and Nashorn, leading to longer, harder to understand call stacks when exceptions occur.

VP of APM, Aruna Ravichandran of CA Technologies walks you through what Application Performance Management really is and discusses some of the major benefits of using the software. Learn more about APM solutions from CA Technologies at http://www.ca.com/apm

This document compares the application performance monitoring (APM) tools AppDynamics and New Relic. It discusses their supported languages and environments, key features for backend, frontend, and mobile monitoring, how each tool helps users solve errors, pricing differences, and concludes that AppDynamics is better for on-premise use while New Relic caters more to startups and smaller businesses.

Dynatrace is an APM solution that provides deep visibility into application performance across complex, distributed environments. It uses PurePath technology to capture timing and code-level context for all transactions end-to-end. This allows Dynatrace to identify performance issues and their root causes faster than other tools. Dynatrace can monitor Apache Tomcat servers and provide metrics on JVM performance, database queries, requests, and more. It helps diagnose common issues like inefficient database access, microservice problems, and coding issues.

A few years ago everyone wanted to know how to convince their executives to go agile. Today, executives are asking their teams how they'll make the transformation. We have made significant progress changing the hearts and minds of senior leadership, but executives now demand a greater level of assurance that the plan is actually going to work. Executives are tired of being told to trust the team and that everything will be okay. Executives want to know how agile is going to help make things better. Mike Cottmeyer begins by discussing the elements of an agile transformation business case and how to identify a meaningful value proposition for change. Next, he considers how to assess the organization and build an agile transformation strategy and roadmap that encourage an iterative and incremental approach to change. Finally, Mike explores the metrics and controls that help you know if you're on the right track. Explore the change management and engagement techniques necessary to make sure you are building meaningful organizational support as you engage the enterprise.

The document discusses strategies for building a SAFe implementation, including defining the enterprise vision, creating an incremental rollout strategy, building a guiding coalition of leaders, organizing around value streams, executing the rollout incrementally, and addressing mindset and culture changes. It provides guidance on establishing a transformation team, training stakeholders, advocating for the changes, and focusing initially on the most important mindset issues.