- Moderator: Emmet Keeffe – Founder/Insight Partners
- Jennifer Sepull, the former CIO of USAA, Kimberly Clark, Honda
- Andy Walter – Proctor & Gamble
Jennifer starts off by asking the audience (of testers), “How many of you think your CIOs care about testing?” About 5 people replied in the affirmative. She goes on to ensure the audience that they do.
A key takeaway here is that speed and agility is important, not necessarily cost.
“I don’t care about the cost savings. What I want is the agility”
Here are some additional highlights:
- Digital and cybersecurity are major topics in the boardroom, and disruption is affecting even large companies like P&G.
- Continuous testing and DevOps are crucial to accelerating software delivery and breaking down barriers to innovation.
- Digital capabilities can enable companies to acquire or divest a company or brand in months, not years.
- The end-to-end process of application development and testing is critical to connecting with consumers and driving innovation.
- There is a need to focus not just on process and cloud services but also on cost savings and accelerating sales.
- Agile processes and public cloud services like AWS and Azure are becoming more prevalent in organizations.
Here is the full video: