Speaking
If you are interested in inviting me to speak at your event, please contact me .
Here are some of my favorite talks and podcasts:
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Episode 81, Transformational Leadership
Previous Events
2019
DevOps Enterprise Summit London Crowdchat (#DOES19),
Apr 16, 8am PT
DevOpsDays Seattle, Seattle, WA
April 23-24
Flow 101 workshop at large bank, Wash DC
May 7-8
CHEFCONF, Seattle, WA
May 21
Keynote: DevOpsDays Toronto, Toronto, CA
May 29-30
Internal speakership at large bank, New York, NY
Jun 3
DevOps Enterprise Summit, London, UK
Jun 25-27
Agile 2019, Wash DC
Aug 7-8
Experience Agile conference, Lisbon, PT
Sep 30 – Oct 1
Internal speakership at CSG, Chicago, IL
Apr 10
Flow 101 workshop for Sales org, Wash DC
Apr 3 – 4
Webinar, Value Stream Management vs. Value Stream Mapping: What you need to know
Mar 26
Lean Coffee facilitation at large telecom, Seattle, WA
Mar 12
Flow 101 workshops at large retailer, Seattle, WA
Jan 28 – Feb 1
Keynote: DevOpsDays NYC, New York, NY
Jan 24-25
Keynote: Internal DevOpsDays at PNC, Pittsburgh, PA
Jan 8
2018
Tasktop Connect, Washington DC
Dec 6
Agile Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Nov 16
Internal Ticketmaster event, Phoenix, AZ
Nov 15
DevOps Enterprise Summit, Las Vegas, NV
Oct 22-24
Verizon Tech Days, NJ
Oct 11
Internal BECU event, Seattle, WA
Sep 26
Agile18, San Diego, CA
Aug 6-9
DevOps Metrics101 deck
DevOps Enterprise Summit, London, UK
Jun 25-26
video
DevOpsCon, Berlin, DE
May 28-30
Agile & Beyond, Detroit, MI
May 16-18
GOTO Chicago 2018, Chicago, IL
April 26, 2018
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Episode 86, Human Factors
Apr 3, 2018
Lean Agile US, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Feb 26 – 27, 2018
Internal Nationwide Insurance onsite, Columbus, OH
Feb 6-8, 2018
Private Kanban for ITOps workshop, San Antonio, TX
Jan 18 – 19, 2018
Agile Austin, Austin, TX
Jan 17, 2018
Cloud Austin, Austin, TX
Jan 16, 2018
RunAsRadio, the IT podcast
Jan 3, 2018
Making Work Visible
2017
DevOps.com Interview, DevOpsTV, San Francisco, CA
Nov 14, 2017
DevOps Enterprise Summit, San Francisco, CA
The Balanced Calendar: How to Optimize your Time
Nov 14, 2017
Presentation deck
Discovering Dark Debt in your Culture, DevOps.com Webinar
Nov 3, 2017
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Episode 81, Transformational Leadership
Oct 24, 2017
Lean Agile Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct 4 – 6, 2017
3 Lean exercises for a DevOps Win
Internal Expedia event, Bellevue, WA
Aug 23, 2017
Agile 2017, Orlando, FL
Aug 7 – 11, 2017
Time Theft – How Hidden & Unplanned Work Commit the Perfect Crime (not recorded)
Internal Salesforce event, San Francisco, CA
Aug 2, 2017
DOES17: Live video chat with Gene Kim
July 6, 2017
DOES17: Learning from Leaders and Their Careers in Tech
DEVOPS Enterprise Summit, London, UK
June 5-6, 2017
Making Work Visible – How to Unmask Capacity Killing WIP
DevOpsDays Austin, Austin, TX
May 4-5, 2017
The Art of Lean Performance
DevOpsDays Seattle, Seattle, WA
April 26-27, 2017
Open Space facilitator and Speaker Wrangler
LEAN AGILE US, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Feb 26-27, 2017
Time Theft – How Hidden & Unplanned Work Commit the Perfect Crime
2016
DEVOPS Enterprise Summit, San Francisco, CA
Nov 7-9, 2016
Time Theft – How Hidden & Unplanned Work Commit the Perfect Crime
LEAN AGILE SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct 5-7, 2016
Getting Executive Buy-in for Architecture Changes
Dominica Degrades: Aligning technology & Business Teams from Lean Agile Scotland on Vimeo.
Agile 2016, Atlanta, GA
July 24-29, 2016
The Misaligned Middle – Getting IT Managers On Board with Change
Devopsdays Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA
June 24-25, 2016
From Divided to United – Aligning Technology & Business Teams
Devopsdays Seattle, Seattle, WA
June 12-13, 2016
Why Weekends Matter
Mile High Agile, Denver, CO
April 4, 2016
From Divided to United – Aligning Technical & Business Teams
Solutions IQ Interview, Denver, CO
April 3, 2016
It’s Time for Alignment
LeanKit Webinar
March 27, 2016
From Divided to United — Aligning Technical and Business Teams
2015
Lean Kanban Central Europe, Munich, Germany
November 16-17, 2015
How Kanban helps Operations teams become more Predictable
20 by 20 with Dominica DeGrandis, Pawel Brodzinski, Chet Richards, Nadja Schnetzler, Karl Scotland at LKCE15 from Lean Kanban Central Europe on Vimeo.
DEVOPS Enterprise Summit, San Francisco, CA,
October 20, 2015
Interview – Ideas for becoming more predictable
DEVOPS Enterprise Summit, San Francisco, CA,
October 19-21, 2015
The Shape of Uncertainty
Interview at Agile 2015, Washington DC
August 5, 2015
Interview – Dealing with a World of Uncertainty
Agile 2015, Washington DC
August 3-7, 2015
The Shape of Uncertainty (not recorded)
Agile Israel, Tel Aviv, ISR
June 9, 2015
Handling Shifting Priorities using a Lean Flow Approach
ALM Forum, Seattle, WA
May 18-22, 2015
The Shape of Uncertainty (not recorded)
LEANUX, New York, NY
April 15, 2015
Kanban for DevOps and the Value of Lean Flow
“In a world of conflicting priorities, uninterrupted focus is priceless” – Dominica DeGrandis from William Evans on Vimeo.
2014
DEVOPS Enterprise Summit, San Francisco, CA,
October 21-23, 2014
How we used Kanban in Operations to get things Done
Devopsdays Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA
June 27-28, 2014
Why don’t we just say No?
2013
FlowCon, San Francisco, CA
Nov 1 , 2013
Balancing Dev Agility with your IT Ops Mission using Kanban
DevOpsDays, Austin, TX
Nov 1 , 2013
Who is the Enemy – Us or Motionless?
Who is the Enemy – Us or Motionlessness? – Dominica DeGrandis from info@devopsdays.org on Vimeo.
2012
Lean Kanban Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands
Oct 25-26 , 2012
Emergent Patterns for Kanban Systems in IT Operations
Lean Kanban Central Europe, Vienna, Austria
Oct 22-23 , 2012
Emergent Patterns for Kanban Systems in IT Operations
Lean Kanban France, Paris, France
Oct 18-19 , 2012
Emergent Patterns for Kanban Systems in IT Operations
Lean Systems & Software, Boston, MA
May 18-19 , 2012
Emergent Patterns for Kanban Systems in IT Operations
Business 901 Podcast
May Sep, 2012
Uniting Development and Operations
2011
Devopsdays Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
June 17-18, 2011
Keep your promises with Predictability (Ignite Talk at 19:22 min in)
First ever Kanban for DevOps Class, Mountain View, CA
September, 2011
First Impressions with Damon Edwards, John Willis, Gene Kim, Luke Kanies
Kanban and DevOps from dev2ops.org on Vimeo.