How we use the Kata to tell the story of learning & evolution of ideas
Channel: Salt Lake City DevOps Days
Date: 2017-10-02

Often we struggle when testing and developing new technologies to tell the story of how we came to the solution we’ve landed upon and delivered. In cloud development we use a discovery technique which often involves testing new ideas to see if they solve the problem and bring the expected value we’ve intended to develop. This process often starts with an idea “a” that morphs and transforms into a product/technology “z”. Because of their position, executive leaders often don’t get this story which can lead to frustration and churn.
During this presentation I will dive into how we use the Kata to tell the story of learning and evolution of ideas to executive leaders. In this session you will learn …
• About new technology development and learning
• Telling the story of the evolution of ideas to leaders
• Common cloud development problems

About David Snider
David A. Snider

Sr. Director, Foundation Engineering

David Snider is Sr. Director of Service Optimization, Foundation Engineering for Optum Technology, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, a leading health care company, serving more than 75 million people worldwide. UnitedHealth Group’s family of companies touch nearly every aspect of health care, helping people live healthier lives.

As Sr. Director of Foundation Engineering, David is responsible for the architecture of all distributed systems, storage and network technologies. His primary focus for the last few years has been enabling UnitedHealth Group’s Cloud capabilities, with a focus on Optum Technology the base technologies as well as Infrastructure as a Service, hybrid cloud and containers.