[2018.02 Meetup] [TALK #1] Cristina Rebelo - Women in DevOps

DevOps is all about collaboration and collaboration is all about diversity. Empathy, attention to detail, and other tipically feminine characteristics are essential to accelerate progress and remove roadblocks, getting more innovative, productive teams.

DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. How to help bring alignment to teams, expanding into other functional teams across the organization.

Cristina Moura Rebelo has more than 10 years of experience in complex project management. Cristina is passionate for project management, especially using agile approaches as a means to optimize time and resources. Currently she manages a team of 20+ developing Meo TV. With a degree in Management, a graduation at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and two project management certifications, blogger and writer, married and mother of two, she often participates as speaker/host in public interest events is often involved in various volunteer activities.

Transcript

1. Women in DevOps Why you need women in your team Cristina Moura Rebelo TV manager @IT, Altice Portugal
2. Page 2 Women do DevOps while multitasking
3. Page 3 DevOps – What is it? The purist definition of "DevOps" is actually an ideology - it is the concept of two or more units (teams) working together for a common success criteria
4. Page 4 Familiar?
5. Page 5 The Problem
6. Automation is key
7. Page 7 How? • Continuous Delivery ; • Test automation in all environments, using Behaviour Driven Development concepts and tools; • Deploy automation in all environments using release management tools – deploy status knowledge in each moment; • Configuration automation
8. Page 8 Effective Teams In a team with high psychological safety, teammates feel safe to take risks around their team members. They feel confident that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea. Source: https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-spent-years-studying-effective-teams-this-single-quality-contributed-most-to-their-success.html Listen first. Show empathy. Cognitive Emotional Be authentic. Trust makes way to commitment
9. Page 9 How? • Continuous Delivery ; • Test automation in all environments, using Behaviour Driven Development concepts and tools; • Deploy automation in all environments using release management tools – deploy status knowledge in each moment; • Configuration automation • Trust environment that ensures process feed with data collected in PRD environments
10. Page 10 Empathy: the essence of DevOps According to Cambridge psychopathology professor Simon Baron-Cohen, the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, wereas the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems (empathising-systemising theory)
11. Page 11 The secret weapon DevOps Build, Automate Process Empathyse Process
12. Page 12 Where do we stand 2015 = 5%. A third of respondents reported working on teams with no women at all.
13. Page 13 Where do we stand - education According to a study conducted in 14 countries, the probability for female students of graduating with a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and Doctor’s degree in science- related field are 18%, 8% and 2% respectively, while the percentages of male students are 37%, 18% and 6%.
14. Page 14 Facts to consider Diversity makes companies richer by McKinsey (19.01.2018) Gender diversity renders 21% higher than average profits. Ethnic diversity scales up to 33%. Companies in the bottom quartile for both gender and ethnic diversity are 29% more likely to experience below average profitability, and 7% more likely to experience below average value creation than their more diverse peers.
15. Page 15 Other considerations Technology is better for everyone when it is designed by everyone (tech companies — half of your market is female!). • Voice recognition • Face recognition You need women because Demand for tech workers is outstripping the pace at which schools can produce male STEM* graduates. STEM = Science, Technology, Engeneering, Maths Empathic Persuasive Meticulous Thorough Organized Resilient Context - driven Bridge builder
16. Page 16 Where to begin o De-stigmatize emotions – they are clearly important, so much that they have been addressed by important ecosystems like Cognitive Services. o Don’t overlook them, don’t exagerate them - Emotions, if not dealt with, may hinder objectivity o Be The Leader You Want To See - Be you. Own the leadership style that makes you you. o Although there are not much feminine role models, women please don’t try to behave like men o Offer to speak in schools and meetups, providing girls with female role models, and giving them experience with all different kinds of technology o Partner With Those Who Get it And Challenge Those Don't. Reshma Saujani Rosalind Radcliffe Nicole Forsgreen Jessica DeVita
17. Page 17 February 11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science For too long, discriminatory stereotypes have prevented women and girls from having equal access to education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). As a trained engineer and former teacher, I know that these stereotypes are flat wrong. They deny women and girls the chance to realize their potential – and deprive the world of the ingenuity and innovation of half the population. On this International Day, I urge commitment to end bias, greater investments in STEM education for all women and girls as well as opportunities for their careers and longer-term professional advancement so that all can benefit from their ground-breaking future contributions
18. Page 18 Q&A Facebook.com/doinconformismo Twitter: @crismr Linkedin.com/in/crismr The future isn't a place that we're going to go. It's a place that you get to create.