Moving Faster Without Fear: Customer Panel from Software Release Summit

The discussion panel at LaunchDarkly's Software Release Summit featured speakers Krista Sappington, VP of IT Application Manager at BOK Financial, and Aaron Kerwin, Director of Software Engineering at Datasite. They discussed their key business initiatives for 2023, including modernizing platforms and improving digital card capabilities at BOK Financial, and delivering software at high speed with low risk at Datasite. Both companies are looking to mature their release practices by tracking metrics that help them understand the impact of their deployments. The panel also touched on using feature management as a safety net for innovation, streamlining releases to reduce stress and prioritize speed, and unlocking more release strategies with LaunchDarkly. The discussion provided valuable insights into how feature management can improve developer experience and productivity, and offered advice for leaders looking to adopt such solutions. The panelists emphasized the importance of understanding current release and deployment processes, identifying pain points, and measuring improvements in production errors and outage times to show the value of changes made. The discussion highlighted the benefits of feature management tools like LaunchDarkly in improving software development and delivery practices.