PowerShell Summit 2025 - Delivering Care through Data with Trust, Understanding by Jennifer Stirrup

PowerShell and DevOps have become indispensable tools for managing and automating complex IT environments. However, as we harness the power of data to drive business intelligence and AI-driven insights, we must also address delivering value from the business impact of data. Delivering value means creating a culture that facilitates innovation and values trust, understanding, and care to create more innovative solutions and better outcomes for the business and the teams. We will discuss practical strategies for building trust between development and operations teams, promoting inclusive design practices, and leveraging data-driven insights to enhance data-driven initiatives. Join us as we delve into the intersection of DevOps and building trustworthy data landscapes to deliver value to your organization as well as being a trusted partner of the business teams. How can we build and maintain trust, understanding, and care in our data practices? Can PowerShell and DevOps principles be leveraged to create and build confidence in data management and analytics? This session will provide actionable insights for technical leaders and practitioners seeking to create a more effective DevOps environment with a focus on the following topics: Building Trust Through Transparency - Implementing PowerShell scripts and DevOps pipelines to ensure data lineage, versioning, and auditability, fostering trust in data-driven decision-making processes. Enhancing Understanding with Automated Documentation - Utilizing PowerShell to generate comprehensive, up-to-date documentation of the journey of data as it flows from the sources through to the users. Demonstrating Care with Ethical Data Handling - Incorporating privacy-preserving techniques and compliance checks into DevOps workflows, ensuring careful use of sensitive information. Delivering Value Through Intelligent Automation - consider how PowerShell can be used to integrate AI and machine learning models into DevOps pipelines, accelerating time-to-insight while maintaining data integrity. Making your Data Stewardship Work - discussing strategies to embed data governance principles into DevOps practices, creating a shared responsibility model for a data platform for all. Join us for practical insights into creating a data ecosystem that delivers business value and prioritizes trust, understanding, and care. This session will equip PowerShell and DevOps practitioners with the knowledge and tools to become data champions in their organizations, driving innovation while making data work for the organization. PowerShell Summit videos are recorded by our friends at Confreaks. Our recordings are made in a way that minimizes overhead for our speakers and interruptions to our live audience. These recordings are meant to preserve the presentations' information for posterity, and are not intended to be a substitute for attending the Summit in person. These recordings are not intended as professional video training products. We hope you find these videos useful. Follow Confreaks 👇 https://confreaks.com https://confreaks.bsky.social https://x.com/confreaks