Shipping faster is a common goal in modern delivery teams, but speed without a strong delivery system often backfires as rework, production incidents, delayed releases, and loss of trust.
This session explains how Agile delivery and DevOps automation are meant to work together: Agile strengthens the value stream (prioritization, flow, feedback, learning), while DevOps strengthens the delivery stream (build, test, release, operate, recover).
When these two drift apart, Agile pushing for speed while DevOps becomes “just CI/CD tooling”, teams fall into predictable pitfalls: large batches, weak Definition of Done, “green pipeline” confidence without meaningful quality signals, release without observability, and risky deployments with no safe rollback path.
Key Takeaways:
1. A clear model to align Agile value-stream thinking with DevOps delivery automation
2. The most common pitfalls that cause “fast delivery” to become “fragile delivery”
3. A practical checklist for attendees to improve release readiness and reduce delivery risk
4. A view of how DevOps process automation streamlines delivery
5. a realistic product-delivery case study, participants will map where speed pressure breaks flow, identify the anti-patterns across the end-to-end stream (idea → code → release → run), and collaboratively redesign a safer delivery approach.
- Date:31/01/2026
- Time:10:20
- Event:When Speed Backfires: Risks, Anti patterns and Pitfalls in Devops & CI/CD @Chennai
