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Presentation Topic: "Introducing Required Workflows in GitHub Actions to Standardize CI/CD Best Practices" Image Description: The image on the slide depicts a developer standing in front of a giant repository, which is connected to multiple pipelines that represent the various stages of the CI/CD process. The pipelines are shown flowing smoothly and efficiently, with minimal errors and bottlenecks. The developer is holding a clipboard with a checklist of required workflows, indicating that they have successfully enforced the organization-wide standards across all repositories. Slide Title: "Streamlining CI/CD Best Practices with Required Workflows in GitHub Actions" Speaker Notes Commentary: [Opening Slide] Speaker Notes: Hello everyone, today we are excited to introduce you to the latest feature in GitHub Actions, required workflows. As DevOps teams are striving for faster, more reliable, and efficient software delivery, standardization of the CI/CD process has become crucial. In this session, we'll explore how required workflows can help you achieve this goal by streamlining best practices across all repositories within an organization. [Image Description Slide] Speaker Notes: Our image captures the essence of the efficient and effective CI/CD process that required workflows enable. The developer standing in front of the giant repository represents the DevOps team or the build system administrator who oversees the entire process. The pipelines flowing smoothly and efficiently represent the standardization of best practices that required workflows enforce. And the clipboard in the developer's hand signifies the checklist of required workflows that have been successfully enforced across all repositories. [Slide Title] Speaker Notes: Let's delve deeper into how required workflows can revolutionize your CI/CD process by streamlining best practices across all repositories within an organization. Our slide title, "Streamlining CI/CD Best Practices with Required Workflows in GitHub Actions," captures the essence of the benefits that required workflows offer to organizations. [Main Presentation] Speaker Notes: With required workflows, DevOps teams can define and enforce standard CI/CD practices across many source code repositories within an organization without needing to configure each repository individually. This approach helps organizations to reduce duplication and errors, and thus speeds up the software delivery process. Required workflows allow DevOps teams to define mandated workflows to run during the lifecycle of a repository's pipeline. Individual development teams at the repository level will be able to see what required workflows have been applied to their repository, what actions that workflow performs, and whom to contact if they have questions. By imposing required workflows, DevOps teams or build system administrators can ensure that all code meets an enterprise's quality standards, improve security, and maintain compliance. This can be achieved by enforcing consistent code syntax conventions, ensuring that unit test coverage meets a minimum level before deployments, and invoking external vulnerability scoring or dynamic analysis tools beyond CodeQL or Dependabot. In addition, required workflows can help ensure that code is continuously deployed in a standard way, enabling DevOps teams to leverage their security and deployment standards, defined by reusable workflows, to protect their most critical software assets, without spending hours configuring hundreds of repositories by hand, and without distracting software developers who are busy writing code. With required workflows, DevOps teams can also ensure that CI/CD configurations are auditable and reportable, enabling organizations to demonstrate compliance and quickly troubleshoot problems. And for the repository owners or individual developers, required workflows help them to understand what mandatory workflows have been applied to their repository, by whom, and whom to contact for more information. [Closing Slide] Speaker Notes: Thank you for joining us today as we explored the exciting potential of required workflows in GitHub Actions. By streamlining CI/CD best practices across all repositories within an organization, required workflows can help you achieve faster, more reliable, and efficient software delivery. With the help of required workflows, let's shape the future of software delivery together.