Driving enterprise-level software delivery with speed and agility requires continually taking on new objectives with new challenges. Nationwide has been on a multi-year transformation from Agile to DevOps, requiring new levels of integration that focus on business, development and operational alignment. In this session, Chuck Ward, Nationwide, shares his experiences with change and the mindset that can optimize the delivery pipeline. Nationwide is embracing industry best practices in Lean, Agile, and DevOps to help enable multi-speed IT delivery. Dibbe Edwards, IBM, will expand on Chuck's perspective and talk about market trends driving her business and how DevOps transformation and hybrid development are critical elements to success.

Speakers: Chuck Ward has over 15 years of IT experience with a focus on software development practices across multiple business domains. He has led technology implementations and business capability improvements including new product introductions, infrastructure replacements, policy administration changes, health and wellness client implementations, large scale transformational programs, and enterprise wide process changes that all focused on value based delivery for customers. In his current role, he leads a software development professional team with a focus on delivery effectiveness through Agile practice adoption, Lean concepts, and a culture of Continuous Improvement. Software Development Services.

Dibbe Edwards, Vice President of IBM Watson IoT Continuous Engineering Offering Manager and Delivery, is responsible for the executive leadership of IBM’s Continuous Engineering and DevOps strategies. Dibbe owns the portfolio covering the full product lifecycle management including reporting, SaaS-based offerings, quality and requirements management, systems development, architecture management and integration through open software. Dibbe is leveraging her development expertise to drive IBM’s DevOps transformation through continuous software delivery activities and on-going transparent development in jazz.net.