Making Transformation Real at CSAA (Ep. 64)

March 27, 2018 Jeff Kelly

This week, Jeff and Dormain chat with CSAA’s Kyle Campos, who is Technology Operations Manager for the auto insurer’s digital services organization. Kyle talks about the strategies he and his team took to transform CSAA’s approach to software development, offers advice to other would-be transformation leaders about how to get business buy-in, and explains why there are some things you just can’t learn until you’re running in production. There's also a Chris Rock reference or two, which is always a good thing.

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News & Resources

Don't miss Kyle at Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, April 18th to 20th. Register with code CFNA18PIV20 for a 25% discount.
Check out Kyle's presentation, Botton Up Enterprise Transformation, from Cloud Foundry Summit 2017 in Basel.
Read this Built to Adapt post about using speed to stay secure in a cloud-native world and CSAA's patching frequency.

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Jeff Kelly is a Director of Partner Marketing at Pivotal Software. Prior to joining Pivotal, Jeff was the lead industry analyst covering Big Data analytics at Wikibon. Before that, Jeff covered enterprise software as a reporter and editor at TechTarget. He received his B.A. in American studies from Providence College and his M.A. in journalism from Northeastern University.
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