I will be returning to DevOpsCon Berlin to give a talk about Improving Agile Development and Operations with Gamification. Join me in Berlin on June 17 at the DevOps Transformation Day.

Gamify it until you make it: Improving Agile Development and Operations with Gamification

So many challenges, so little time. While we’re busy developing software and keeping it operational, we also need to sharpen the saw, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people.

In this presentation, Ben Linders will show how playing games with the DevOps coaching cards can help to explore your current development and deployment (DevOps) practices and decide as a team what to improve or experiment with.

The games that we play are based on an engagement model. Instead of imposing change, the games enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs.

By playing games, you can learn from each other. Teams can use games, exercises, and coaching cards to discuss values, principles, and practices, and share their experiences and learnings.

Different game formats can be used to share experiences on DevOps principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. This presentation provides an overview of playing formats and will inspire you to come up with your own formats.

DevOpsCon Berlin

DevOpsCon is the Conference for CI/CD, the Kubernetes Ecosystem, and Agile & Lean Business.

Because we want to ensure that the lively exchange of knowledge and ideas so typical of DevOpsCon Berlin continues to work well, we were one of the first in the conference industry to develop our hybrid concept.

You can choose to attend the conference either on site or online from your home or office. In order to be accessible to all participants, all DevOpsCon tracks will be streamed live. Using professional video technology, all lectures and workshops will be broadcast live. And that’s not all: You can also get in touch with our speakers and expo partners, even if you won’t be there!