Sponsored by Datical
April 24, 2018
1 PM ET
What is the best way to measure DevOps performance? There are many ways that people have tried to measure productivity in software delivery in the past -- what works and what doesn’t? In this webinar, Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Robert Reeves will present some lessons learned about measuring software delivery and why it’s important. The webinar will also highlight the key factors driving DevOps performance and offer a preview to some of the challenges on the horizon.
Nicole Forsgren, PhD, CEO and Chief Scientist DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
Nicole Forsgren is Co-founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA). She is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and she is an Academic Partner at Clemson University and Florida International University.
Robert Reeves, Co-founder & CTO, Datical
Robert Reeves is the Chief Technical Officer at Datical. He has over 17 years of experience in the software industry and has been instrumental in creating a variety of marketing leading DevOps solutions over the past 15 years. Prior to co-founding Datical, Robert was a director at the Austin Technology Incubator where he provided real world entrepreneurial expertise to member companies. In 2005 Robert co-founded Phurnace Software where he invented and created their flagship product, Phurnace Deliver. Today Robert advocates for Datical’s customers and spreads the word about how Datical is leading the way for modernization and improvement of the database release process to remove this as a barrier to delivering new application innovation.