Sometimes you check in your new feature, it rolls smoothly into production and you’re as happy as a clam.
But sometimes you just can’t get your feature into production, banging your head against the wall in frustration.
Yet sometimes still, you wish that bug hadn’t made it into production, muttering as your colleague from support gets an earful on the phone.

ALM, CI/CD, testing and operations are all part of what makes developers efficient and fast. And yet, developing an entertainment app will obviously be faster than developing software for a nuclear reactor - for good reasons.
What makes the entertainment app fast to develop for? What makes the nuclear reactor software so hard and slow?
We will analyze the differences and compare the challenges as they ramp up across the spectrum of projects between these two.

Following this session, you should have an improved understanding of, and a toolbox to improve upon, developer velocity. You should have a better idea on what makes it easier or harder to achieve and what may work when facing a challenging environment.

Presented at AllDayDevOps 2022