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# 3 Key Steps for Optimizing DevOps Workflows


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 13:30–14:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 4 (500)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/962-3-key-steps-for-optimizing-devops-workflows)

## Description

While many organizations have DevOps teams, few have mastered the balancing act of shipping software quickly, with strong security and functionality. Dan Tao leads the engineering organization at Atlassian responsible for developer-focused experiences including Compass, Bitbucket Cloud and the Open DevOps solution in Jira Software. 

In this session, he’ll share key learnings from Atlassian’s DevOps processes, including how we reduce risk through our delivery process and he’ll share guidance on 3 key areas for listeners to optimize their DevOps workflows to minimize toil and ship secure and functional software, faster.

## Speaker

### [Dan Tao](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@dan-tao)

Head of Engineering for DevOps, Atlassian 


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- [Bridging the gap between design and development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/452-bridging-the-gap) — Jade Jiang, Noga Mann
- [How Can My Software Development Be 'Secure by Design'?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/295-how-can-my-software) — Christoph Niehoff
- [Everything as Code: A Dozen As-Code Concepts beyond Infrastructure or Configuration as Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/102-everything-as-code-a) — Jose Javier Alonso Moya
- [Roadmapping and Collaboration Best Practices to know you're building the right thing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/415-roadmapping-and) — Shilpa Airi