Nathen Harvey
- keynote - Keynotes - Day 2
Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Software Development
Generative AI is not just augmenting software development; it's fundamentally reshaping it. While the pressure to adopt is immense, realizing tangible benefits at scale within large organizations presents significant challenges.
DORA is the largest and longest running research program of its kind, that seeks to understand the capabilities that drive software delivery and operations performance.
The 2024 DORA research provided crucial early insights into gen AI's impact, revealing increased developer productivity and flow but also highlighting surprising pitfalls like decreased time on valuable work, potential negative impacts on delivery performance, and critical trust deficits.
This session moves beyond the initial findings to provide technology leaders with an updated, data-driven perspective, incorporating DORA's latest research and findings. We'll dissect the nuances of developer adoption, the paradoxes surrounding perceived value, and the organizational capabilities essential for success. Learn practical, actionable strategies grounded in DORA principles – and validated by fresh data – to foster trust, effectively scale adoption, measure true impact, and guide your teams through this critical technological shift, ensuring your AI transformation delivers sustainable value.
About Nathen Harvey
Nathen Harvey leads the DORA team at Google Cloud, where he guides organizations in optimizing their software delivery. He leverages DORA's extensive research to help teams enhance developer experience and improve the speed, stability, and efficiency of their software delivery. Nathen is also dedicated to fostering the growth of technical communities, such as the DORA Community of Practice He has co-authored several influential DORA reports and contributed to the O'Reilly book, "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know."