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(upbeat music)

[Rob Slaughter] Welcome to 'Introduction to DevSecOps for Managers'.


I'm one of your co-hosts, Rob Slaughter. And with me is Bryan Finster.
[Bryan Finster] Yeah, and hi Rob. I'm Bryan Finster. I'm a Value Stream Architect
for Defense Unicorns.
I've got a lot of experience with how do we improve the flow of delivery both at
the technical level and also at the organizational level of software.
[Rob Slaughter] Yeah. And as mentioned, I'm Rob Slaughter. My background is with
the Department of Defense.
I'm one of the co-founders of Platform One and a number of the Department of
Defense software factories.
Currently the CEO of a small company called Defense Unicorns and work also on the
Department of Navy side with a software factory known as Project Blue.
So, Bryan, do you want to maybe tell us a little bit more about your background and
how you became sort of passionate about doing a series on Intro to DevSecOps?
[Bryan Finster] Yeah, sure. So my background, I've been a developer for nearly 30
years and with large enterprises.
I've worked for Walmart. I've worked on Sun Microsystems, I've worked on many large
enterprises.
I currently work with Platform One as well on their delivery platform.
The reason, you know, I've seen in my career that moving towards a continuous
delivery workflow and a DevOps working model has really made better outcomes
for everybody, the end user, the organization, the bottom line and the people doing
the work, everything improves.
And so I'm incredibly passionate about how do we improve the efficiency,
effectiveness, sustainability of what we do so that everybody can live better
lives.
And so anything I can do to help, and I've found that a lot of the times setting
the context is the very first thing we need to do, is make sure we're all on the
same page.
It's really easy to be confused by terms like DevOps, which are, get overloaded all
the time unless they're used to it.
So if we can give people a background of some high level things to think about and
demystify some of these terms and simplify things, I think it'll all work out
better.
[Rob Slaughter] Yeah, for me, you know, I think what really motivates me and what
made me passionate about doing, you know, this course and series was that the most
important systems
to the planet, your financial systems, your energy systems, your defense and
aerospace systems, struggle to deliver software.
And a lot of it has to do with the security, necessities, requirements and
compliance, things that are assumed or expected in those environments.
And so a lot of my background and professional career has been focused on helping
those systems deliver more efficiently.
And it doesn't always scale well just having conversation after conversation.
And so the, the opportunity to partner with the Linux Foundation was something
that, you know, once in a lifetime thing, you know, truly an honor,
and really our intent is that this is, you know, an introduction. It's not intended
to be all inclusive.
It's intended to inform one of the things, you know, I think we really, really,
really wanted to stress throughout this entire series is that it's not always just
tech choices.
People focus too much on this technology versus that technology and they miss that
there's, you know, an entire organizational stack, not just tech stack,
but your entire organization, from how you hire people to your culture, to your
processes, to how you treat, you know, say for example, platform is product.
There's a lot of things that you can do as an organization to either get this right
or wrong.
And we wanted to introduce the concepts to you so quite honestly, you knew what to
focus on because if you focus on the wrong things, then the odds that you're
successful go down.
[Bryan Finster] Yeah, I've seen it repeatedly, people doing it well because they
focus on the whole value stream
versus we're going to throw tools at it and it never works out well.
[Rob Slaughter] Yep. So a high level of some of the chapters that we're going to go
over, you know, this is the course introduction.
Chapter two, we're going to talk a little bit about what is DevSecOps and why it's
important.
Chapter three, we're going to do an entire chapter on "Tech like I'm 10," which is
just really us introducing tech concepts at a low level that you can, you know,
really grasp and ideally not be afraid of it.
We have chapter four which is focused on value stream management.
Chapter five, which is focused on platform as product.
[Bryan Finster] Yeah, and then in chapter six, we're going to talk about the basics
of continuous delivery, how you effectively use that platform.
Chapter seven, we're going to be talking about culture and how important the
establishing the right culture is to delivery outcomes ultimately.
And then chapter eight, we're going to be talking about metrics and how to measure
effectively, and how to prevent measuring in ways that causes problems.
And then the chapter nine is agile contracting, where we talk about how to do that
in a more nimble way that allows better outcomes in the end.
[Rob Slaughter] Yep, so we welcome you on this journey. We hope this is the start.
At the end of these videos we'll tag up with you again and we'll discuss what do
you do at the end of this course?
[Bryan Finster] I'm hoping they get some value from it, Rob.
[Rob Slaughter] Yep. Take care, guys. Enjoy the videos.

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