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SUMMARY:October 2019 Meetup
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE: http://bit.ly/LCD-OCT\n\nBefore the event takes 
 place\, we need to provide the venue with everyone's names and email addre
 sses\, to which they will send QR codes to get through the gates. Without 
 a QR code\, you will sadly not be permitted entry.\n\nRSVP closes at 11am 
 on October 28th.\n\nJoin us for an evening of great discussions & talks an
 d beer & pizza.\n\nWe'll start off with the food and the drinks at 6.30pm.
 \n\nTalk 1: Testing Activities in DevOps: It’s more than a tools story b
 y Janet Gregory\, DragonFire Inc.\n\nAs teams transitioned to using agile 
 development principles and practices\, many struggled to figure out how te
 sting could “keep up” with frequent production deploys – every quart
 er\, or month\, or iteration or perhaps even weekly. Now many teams are mo
 ving towards continuous delivery\, deploying to production multiple times 
 a week or even multiple times a day. How can we possibly keep up with test
 ing activities so that we have confidence to release changes so often?\n\n
 A collaborative DevOps approach to building infrastructure to support cont
 inuous delivery and the ability to monitor and observe production use help
 s. However\, many people aren’t even familiar with a\nlot of the termino
 logy around this. And many don’t realize that testing is at the core of 
 DevOps and continuous delivery.\n\nIn this talk\, Janet Gregory will help 
 you understand the testing activities that are involved and how testers ca
 n contribute to successful continuous delivery and continuous deployment. 
 She shares some techniques that can help your team embrace a DevOps cultur
 e\, and learn how testers can help build bridges between “Dev”\, “Op
 s” and the business stakeholders. You’ll learn that there IS a “test
 ” in DevOps.\n\nJanet Gregory is an agile testing coach and process cons
 ultant with DragonFire Inc. She is the co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agil
 e Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction (LeanPub 2019)\, More Agile Test
 ing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley 2014)\,\nand Agi
 le Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley\
 , 2009)\, the Live Lessons Agile Testing Essentials video course\, and “
 Agile Testing for the Whole Team” 3-day training course.\n\nJanet specia
 lizes in showing agile teams how testing practices are necessary to develo
 p good quality products. She works with teams to transition to agile devel
 opment and teaches agile testing courses worldwide. She contributes articl
 es to publications and enjoys sharing\nher experiences at conferences and 
 user group meetings around the world. For more about Janet’s work and he
 r blog\, visit https://janetgregory.ca or https://agiletester.ca. You can 
 also follow her on twitter @janetgregoryca.\n\nTalk 2: How to be an Evil S
 cientist by Benedict Steele\, Armakuni\n\nHave you ever fancied turning yo
 ur co-workers into laboratory rats and have them scurry around a maze sear
 ching for food whilst you ring a bell and the office cat slavers at the mo
 uth?\n\nNo? Okay\, well we weren't going to tell you how to do that anyway
 !\n\nWhat we will share is how to embed a culture of ongoing experimentati
 on that enables your team to learn and adopt new technologies\, techniques
 \, and processes - whilst also achieving current objectives.\n\nNo animals
  were harmed in the creation of this talk.\n\nBen is a creative technology
  leader who balances lived experience with emerging best practice. With ov
 er fifteen years experience of working in the public and third sectors\, B
 en enjoy helping organisations of all sizes to adopt new methods\, techniq
 ues\, and ways of working.\n\nPrior to joining Armakuni\, Ben led the Digi
 tal Engineering and Digital Product Teams at Cancer Research UK. A little 
 bit before that\, he co-founded HomeMade Digital\, and worked with organis
 ations such as BBC Children In Need\, British Red Cross\, Royal Children
 ’s Hospital Foundation (Melbourne)\, Disasters Emergency Committee\, and
  many more.\n\nMeetup Retro - Please visit the following retro board:\nhtt
 p://bit.ly/LondonCD\n\nhttps://www.devopschat.co/meetings/october-2019-mee
 tup
URL:https://www.devopschat.co/meetings/october-2019-meetup
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