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Gail Ferreira

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Gail is the Agile Practice Leader for Matrix Resources, for the Agile San Francisco Center of Excellence. Gail began her career in 1995 delivering professional services for strategy, leadership, management, enterprise portal, content management, business intelligence, and analytics for a variety of technology clients. Working in a variety of technology and business leadership roles, she has helped organizations define strategy, perform business analysis, lead application development teams, and govern program management using traditional, Lean and Agile methodologies. As an Agile Coach, she holds CSM, CSPO, and CSP certifications from the Scrum Alliance, and the Scaled Agile Academy as a SAFe Program Consultant.

Company
MATRIX
Job Function
Consulting
Job Title
Agile Practice Leader
Industry
Agile Consulting
Interests
Agile
Configuration Management
DevOps
IT Operations
Leadership
Lean
Mobile
Performance Testing
Plan-driven Development
Project Management
Country
United States

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two ropes tied together DevOps Meets IoT for Increased Performance and Productivity

Organizational leaders should consider an integrated hardware and software delivery approach combining technology from the Internet of Things and the DevOps ability to accelerate delivery. Because the IoT blends a number of standalone end systems, it can benefit from the DevOps approach of taking a comprehensive, end-to-end systems view.

cross out waste Use Lean Thinking to Accelerate DevOps Performance for Agile Teams

Leaders in agile organizations should consider adding lean techniques to their DevOps practices. Lean thinking can accelerate DevOps delivery by providing a set of processes and principles to help create more beneficial products, save money, boost productivity, reduce waste, and map to value.

Flow chart for an organization Realizing Value by Establishing an Agile Project Management OfficeSome believe that an overarching organizational and governance model to structure operations in agile environments is needed. An agile project management organization can act as an aggregator and evaluator of agile project data metrics to help leaders track performance for improved value delivery.