Keynote: What It's Like to Bring DevOps to a Software Factory in Central America

The speaker shares his experience of bringing DevOps to a Software Factory Company in Central America amidst challenges such as limited budget, resistance to change, and lack of English proficiency. The company's digital transformation journey involved implementing automation, cloud adoption, and agile methodologies, which led to a significant reduction in development and testing time. The speaker emphasizes the importance of team transformation and investment in training to cope with methodology adoption. He also highlights the need for documentation and an elite team to help with technology adoption. The speaker concludes by stressing the importance of doing things the right way and the absence of a silver bullet in digital transformation.

• Central American companies face challenges such as limited budget, resistance to change, and lack of English proficiency in implementing digital transformation
• DevOps culture involves implementing automation, cloud adoption, and agile methodologies
• DevOps implementation led to a significant reduction in development and testing time
• Team transformation and investment in training are crucial for methodology adoption
• Documentation and an elite team are necessary for technology adoption
• Doing things the right way is important in digital transformation
• There is no silver bullet in digital transformation

The speaker shares his experience of helping a Software Factory Company in Central America with its Cloud adoption. He learned a lot while helping the team implement QA tools on the pipeline, which required training for the QA Engineers to adopt technology. The documentation was crucial as it helped the elite team to get in touch with the platform and perform configuration tasks on production environments. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of doing things the right way and the absence of a silver bullet in digital transformation.

In 2020, lots of companies around the world realized that most of their technology and methodologies were already obsolete. 10 years ago, that started a race inside those companies to keep alive the business while designing, building, and improving online platforms.This opened a big necessity of the misnamed "DevOps," a being that handles the knowledge to deploy anything to the Cloud with "Dockers" (or at least that's what most of the people think it is).In this talk, Alvin will share his experience helping a Software Factory Company to reach the goal of a DevOps Culture.