My aim is to provide a speedrun overview of DevOps, taking you through the most important principles and concepts behind the movement, while trying to lift the curtain on some cultural changes that are bound to come your way. I've noticed that a lot of people seek the latest and greatest, cutting edge stuff but have their teams struggle with the fundamentals, hence a talk about those fundamentals.

We'll talk about the Three Ways (from the Phoenix Project) as our base for further techniques & technologies, discuss common misconceptions & challenges you'll face when trying to implement it, and see if we can define some improvements you can start making the next day.

Focus is on (not limited to):
1) Flow. Taking concepts from Lean, reducing batch sizes & handoffs, limiting WIP, gaining knowledge about the flow of info through VSMs.
2) Feedback. Create & amplify loops through many forms of testing, reviewing, collaborating; shifting left cumbersome activities, seeing problems as they occur and building an ever safer system to work in.
3) Continuous Learning & Experimentation. Improving daily work is more important than daily work itself (Toyota), implementing a blameless culture and doing effective post-incident analysis, looking into resilience engineering and more.

Also a bit on the importance of defining DevOps for your own context and why that is necessary (and difficult), and some spicy stories from the field to liven it all up!

Needs very little in terms of setup; slides/projector is optional.
Session takes about 30-45 mins, depending on audience interactivity (and if this is wished in the first place). Can easily extend with a few topics like CI/CD, engineering culture, bit of leadership. Or, if interactivity is key, can also let the audience decide on a few follow-up topics; I want my talks to be very flexible in that regard.

Target audience is anyone in- or outside of IT, that has heard of the term DevOps before but would like a primer on what it's about, without too much company context or 'this is how we do it here'.