T. Alexander Lystad
Director of Cloud and Engineering at Visma
Oslo, Norway
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T. Alexander Lystad has worked on modernizing software development, delivery and operations in Visma since 2012. He enjoys speaking at conferences, and is a long-time contributor to lichess.org.
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It doesn't take much to be above average: The critical shortcomings of small software companies
Small software companies may have personal and sensitive data on millions of users and process millions of euros worth of transactions, but many have appaling application security. In this talk, I'll mention some of the common shortcomings we come across and what can be done to address them.
Based on analysis of hundreds of acquisition targets, vendors, customers and partners, it is clear that most small software companies are underinvesting in security to the detriment their future and customers. Based on our analysis, the danger zone seems to be <40 FTEs, <5 MEUR revenue. The good news is that major improvements in security can be made without the need for huge investments.
Measuring Software Delivery and Operational Performance to improve commercial outcomes
In this talk, I show why and how we measure Software Delivery and Operational Performance across ~100 development teams in Visma. We use these metrics to motivate and track improvements in engineering performance and commercial results.
Visma is a group of 200+ software companies which operate quite independently. With access to this unique dataset about financial results and engineering performance, we can try to understand which engineering practices matter for commercial results. In this talk, I'll share how we measure engineering performance as well as some of the exciting results from our research.
T. Alexander Lystad
Director of Cloud and Engineering at Visma
Oslo, Norway
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