What Does DevOps Culture Feel Like?

In this webinar we'll explore what is DevOps culture, why it's important, and how it differs from many typical organisational cultures and why. We'll see some simple things we can do to help nurture a DevOps culture within our organisations, and investigate some collaboration and team patterns which can help to change behaviour to encourage DevOps to flourish.

1. What Does DevOps Culture Feel Like? Matthew Skelton 25th October 2013 Hosted by UNICOM Seminars http://blog.unicom.co.uk/ @ matthewpskelton experiencedevops.org

2. Agenda Introduction DevOps Culture Common Experiences Team Topologies DevOps Culture in Practice Questions

3. Background Software systems since 1998 Books Software Operability Windows Package Management London Continuous Delivery meetup group - londoncd.org.uk Experience DevOps workshops

4. Introduction

5. DevOps Not Infrastructure Automation New word for SysAdmin Devs ‘doing’ Ops Ops ‘doing’ Dev ...

6. DevOps CAMS Culture Automation Measurement Sharing Set of practices for rapid, reliable software delivery

7. The ‘Culture Iceberg’ Gene Kim - http://slidesha.re/1a4pjSR

8. Culture “a set of shared mental assumptions that guide interpretation and action in organizations by defining appropriate behavior for various situations ” ( Ravasi & Shultz, 2006) http://www.jstor.org/stable/20159775

9. Common Experiences

10. Team Objectives

11. Defence vs Attack?

12. DevOps Culture Feels Like A sports team playing to win Multi-part objectives Score points Defend Success comes from the shared, joint objectives Optimising for only points or defence is not effective

13. In Sync?

14. In Sync

15. DevOps Culture Feels Like A band of musicians In time, in tune, ‘in the groove’  Different specialisms , one goal

16. Progress vs Maintenance

17. Progress vs Maintenance

18. DevOps Culture Feels Like A reliable vehicle Repairs done, journeys completed Optimising for either repairs or progress is not effective

19. Team Topologies

20. Topology shapes interactions

21. Topology shapes interactions

22. Further Reading http://wp.me/p22rdq-dx http://slidesha.re/1bl3DUS

23. DevOps Culture in Practice

24. THEM!

25. THEM!

26. Pairing – Devs and Ops

27. Version Control for All ™

28. First-Class Operability

29. Devs On Call

30. No More Budget Battles

31. Summary

32. DevOps Culture Feels Like A sports team playing to win Multi-part objective: score, prevent loss A band of musicians In time, in tune, ‘in the groove’ A reliable vehicle Repairs done, journeys completed

33. DevOps Culture Feels Like Never ‘them’ or ‘they’ ‘Us’ or ‘we’ instead Ops pairing with Devs on code Logging, monitoring, <operability> Ops using version control (!) Devs concerned with operability No ‘project code’ or budget conflicts

34. What’s Next?

35. The Phoenix Project

36. DevOpsDays Ghent Sydney Mountain View Hamburg ... Tokyo Tel Aviv Atlanta New York Portland Vancouver Barcelona devopsdays.org

37. DevOps Summit Amsterdam, November 2012 London, May 2013 Amsterdam, November 2013 Bangalore, December 2013 devopssummit.com

38. Experience DevOps A hands-on workshop for DevOps culture @ ExperDevOps Forthcoming dates: London: 29 October 2013 Amsterdam: 15 November 2013 experiencedevops.org

39. Questions & Discussion Matthew Skelton @ matthewpskelton experiencedevops.org UNICOM Seminars http://blog.unicom.co.uk/

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