Classical Talk

From stuck to smooth sailing with Delivery Flow Engineering

Traditional top-down organizations, typical in highly regulated fields like Air Traffic Management, are not well prepared for fast growth, it can lead to much slower progress and even stop value creation. Spreading knowledge and information in this situation is often dependent on few key people, creating information silos, resulting in an increasing amount of sync meetings and long, cumbersome decision making processes. This overhead results in deceleration of continuous improvement, slowing down ideation and raising a feeling of stagnation on the organizational level. This talk is showcasing how we made our first steps into re-engineered our delivery flow to reclaim our time and sanity while reducing waste. We will show the practical usage of Value Stream Mapping to identify waste, the introduction of Management Decision Records (MDRs) to ensure decisions actually stick, and transform the organisation to focus on end 2 end value creation. If you are struggling with high mental load, a rigid development organisation and endless decision making processes this session provides insights to get back to continuous value creation and organisational growth.

Raffael Šala
TechTalk GmbH, Austria

Biography

I worked as a Test Automation Architect and DevOps Consultant for multiple years. During my past projects my focus shifted from a pure Test Automation Architect view to a wider DevOps perspective and how to incorporate quality insurance into DevOps. With growing expertise I noticed, that it is not enough tackling topics on team level and became more and more interested in improving the whole Delivery Flow of organizations.
I believe that, for an organization, in order to achieve great success in adopting the habit of continuous improvement and establishing a generative culture a two-pronged approach is necessary both bottom-up and top-down.

Raffael Šala, Speaker 2026
Emanuel Gabl
Frequentis AG, Austria

Biography

Emanuel Gabl, Speaker 2026