Sonal Premi
Business Analyst by day, but mostly storyteller at all times
Melbourne, Australia
Sonal is a Business Analyst, with experience spanning software development, testing, and more recently over 13 years as a Business Analyst. The core of her experience has been in understanding key business drivers and needs, to shape solutions that address business challenges. Her experience delivering technology solutions is supported by a Master’s degree in Cyber Security and an MBA.
Sonal loves to explore problems, experiment with various approaches and solutions, and challenge and shape the technology culture. She’s passionate about all things agility, technology transformation, and outcomes that benefit end users.
When not saving the world one problem at a time, she spends her time learning new skills, mentoring people, travelling and drinking copious amounts of tea.
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What binge watching Aircrash Investigations has taught me about Agile
The agile manifesto speaks to the values and behaviours that enable people to work together, and enable them to respond to change effectively, in a dynamic and changing context. At the core of the manifesto, value is placed upon "individuals and interactions", "responding to change", "working software", and "customer collaboration".
What started as a healthy curiosity for the series "Aircrash Investigations" in my teenage years, over time progressed into me spending an inordinate amount of time binge-watching anything related to a discussion of air incidents and accidents. In the more recent years, as I have been watching more of the (many) videos, the parallels between how aviation professionals approach an incident to effectively aviate, and how we software development professionals approach effective software development, become more and more apparent.
In this session I'd like to take a few air incidents as case studies, along with certain examples from the projects I've been part of in the last 17 years of my tech career, and talk through the behaviours that enable pilots and software developers alike to respond to a changing context. Let's talk about human behaviours, leadership, and being on top of the ‘working-effectively-together-to-respond-to-change’ game!
Security fails at the seams: Using Domain Modelling to test a hypothesis
As analysts, engineers, and delivery folk, consulting to clients with areas of a lot of uncertainty, there is often a need to justify our "why": why are we investing time and energy building bespoke engineering solutions; what value would the business derive to motivated to pay for this?
In one of my recent projects, within the area of security and risk controls automation, this question of "why" came up multiple times, to justify the value to the business, to justify how the program of work was shaped, and equally importantly, to aid prioritisation of the program of work.
In this presentation, I explore how heuristics can be used for problem solving. If we started with a hypothesis, and then modelled our use cases using various heuristics to test the hypothesis, can we arrive at sufficient clarity to solve our prioritisation problem? At this point, you and George Box are likely to say, "but Sonal, all models are wrong". Yes, I agree, but humour me.
I'd like to share a story about experiments with DDD, Bounded Context and problem solving, and uncover the utility of getting creative with domain modelling. I hope to demonstrate value of modelling for reducing ambiguity, and its ability to shape and prioritise a program of work.
Domain-Driven Design Europe 2023 Sessionize Event
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