Session Title
When Culture Blocks the Flow: Overcoming Organizational Barriers to DevSecOps
Abstract
The successful adoption of DevSecOps goes beyond tooling and automation; it requires an organizational culture that encourages experimentation, fosters trust, and breaks down silos between teams. Unfortunately, many large organizations face cultural barriers that block the flow of critical information, undermining collaboration and hindering the effectiveness of DevSecOps. In this session, you’ll learn about a set of facilitation tools ("Fear in the Workplace" and "Safety in the Workplace") that can help you identify the signs of a toxic culture, and create space for open conversations about the "elephant in the room." We’ll introduce practical strategies for building psychological safety across individuals, teams, and leadership—key practices that can drive the cultural shift necessary for DevSecOps success. Unlocking the flow of information is essential for DevSecOps to thrive. This session will provide you with the tools and techniques to create the cultural transformation needed to unlock the full potential of your DevSecOps initiatives.
Bio
Dana Pylayeva is a Certified Enterprise Coach, who excels at navigating complexity, creating learning communities, infusing playfulness, and unleashing innovation in teams and organizations she coaches.
She brings a unique blend of exceptional facilitation skills, her diverse technical background (as a former Java Developer, a DBA Manager, an Application Architect), her 20 + years of Agile/ DevOps coaching experience (with clients in US, UK, Canada, India, Japan, and Ireland) as well as a strong professional coaching mindset (rooted in Co-Active and ORSC).
Dana’s coaching range includes individuals, teams, leadership as well as a Business Agility transformation coaching across a diverse span of industries: legal publishing, automotive, digital marketing, retail, FinTech, music streaming, non-profits etc.
Business games designer, author of “DevOps with Lego and Chocolate” and “Fear in the Workplace” games, Dana is an international speaker (80 conferences in 18 countries), organizer of several local meetups in NYC as well as the conference chair at Agile2024 conference.