D1-5 Emanuel Kleindienst - Hacking Your Boss for DevOps - How to Convince Your Manager to Support DevOps

As a developer, you know you need to collaborate with the Ops-people to bring agility and DevOps to your project. But how do you explain this to your boss ? What are the other benefits your manager understands and can relate to ? Emanuel will show you different strategies to convince the bean counters in your company and brief you on the words and language they understand.

Transcript

1. Hi DevOpsDays 2017!
2. Topics: Who am I, who are you? Secrets... Management aspects Stereotypes How to hack your boss for Cloud
3. Emanuel Kleindienst, CHE & IRE CCO, Commercial guy | M.A.M., eMBA UCIrvine | Engaged to a Dr. med. International traveller | Fluent in German, English, Norwegian etc.
4. Who are you? Software Developer? | IT Professional? | Team Leader / Management Sales & Marketing?
5. Management considerations The two reasons: More revenue and Less costs
6. Social intelligence "To get from someone else what YOU want, you first have to give him / her what HE or SHE wants"
7. Collect and prepare your arguments Cost transparency | Low investment | Flexible Working | More security Less On-call | Less efforts with updates | Better protection against failures
8. Why DevOps? CI & CD | Agile | Brings Dev & Ops to one table | Much faster deployments | Much faster recovery | More flexible in any way
9. Repeat your message Not every day for sure! | But every other day... | And please be patient!
10. Are you afraid of the Cloud? Data protection | Encryption | Data location Who else is having access? T&C! | How to get your data back?
11. Your boss is an IT Manager Busy like hell | Lots of pressure | Long list of open projects | Suffering from delays | Long response times, months | Not open to new stuff
12. Your boss is a Product owner ROI | Fast time to market | Flexibility, e.g. interactive product website Short term view | Get to the customers as close as possible
13. Your boss is an Compliance manager Where are the data located | Security, regulations, rules, layers Reporting, job protection | Reactive, brake, usually saying NO...
14. Your boss is Head of SW development Project controlling | Open standards | Cost & time saving Fluctuation = documentation | Quality | Run everywhere
15. Who is your boss? Tell your story | How can we hack him / her? | Open discussion
16. Repeat your message Not every day for sure! | But every other day... | And please be patient!
17. Thank you! Questions?