Carmen DeArdo

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Bio

Currently am the Senior Strategist, VSM Consulting at Tasktop, was the former leader of DevOps transformation at Nationwide Insurance which won the DevOps.com 2016 DevOps Transformation of the Year. I have presented at all DevOps Enterprises Summits and numerous other conferences including the keynote at the inaugural DevOpsDays Ohio. While I love to speak, I find that by speaking I actually learn more from the feedback that I get from others. I am a Deming advocate having worked at Bell Labs and regularly blog on linkedIn and DevOps.com on topics relating to value stream architecture, accelerating delivery and culture.

Named as one of the top 100 DevOps Leaders and one of the 25 must follow enterprise DevOps leaders by Tech Beacon.  

Co-authored “DevOps Case Studies” and “Expanding Pockets of Greatness” published by IT Revolution.

My talk with Nicole Bryan - Project to Product: Practical Realities at a Large Scale Enterprise - was was one of the finalists for 2018 DevOps Presentation of the Year ( https://devops.com/devops-dozen-2018-finalists-announced/ )

My Talks

Applying Dickens To DevOps

This talk will focus on the ebbs and flows and highs/lows of a DevOps journey using Dickens' Tale of Two Cities as a backdrop. It will provide a realistic message that is hopeful and positive, of ...

Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT and Business

If you've ever worked on an enterprise "digital transformation" project, you've probably seen the usual pitfalls: delayed timelines, expanding budgets, and difficulty delivering continuous customer...

Utilizing DevOps Practices to Architect your Delivery Pipeline for Speed

At the summit of the DevOps journey is the ability for teams to deliver more frequently to be more responsive to their business. This requires that teams understand their delivery value stream bo...