D2-I1 Alex Lichtenberger - DevOps and Holacracy

Ignite Talk

Having the right cultural environment is key for DevOps success. In this short ignite talk, I would like to give some inspiration what it means to work together in a devops environment and the typical challenges:

Away from tradtitional management (command & control)
Towards Devops leadership: The coach, asking the right question, creating the right environment and the self-organizing team, with a strong improvement culture towards a common vision

Transcript

1. DevOps and Holacracy Alex Lichtenberger, Pontine
2. DevOps: getting faster & better, through Collaboration Biz - Dev - Ops
3. So we do all this and everything is fine?
4. Culture eats strategy for breakfast Peter Drucker
5. People don’t resist change…
6. …people resist being changed
7. People typically don’t resist their own ideas
8. Traditional Management * Tell the team * Knows the improvements * Monitors & corrects * Short term focus * Execute * Report Manager Team Members
9. DevOps Management Leadership needed! * At the workplace * Asks Questions * Remove Impediments * Strategic Focus * Standard Work * Measure Results * Retrospect & Improve * Crosstraining Team Members Leader
10. Goal: Self-organized (autonomous) & aligned teams * At the workplace * Asks Questions * Remove Impediments * Strategic Focus * Standard Work * Measure Results * Retrospect & Improve * Crosstraining Team Members Leader
11. High alignment is not sufficient… Source Source: Spotify
12. High alignment & high autonomy needed! Source: Spotify
13. What about this one? … DevOps & Agile reality? Source: Spotify
14. The leaders job: Communicate the vision / what problem needs to be solved and why Get out of the way & facilitate
15. The team’s job: Collaborate along the 3 ways, continually improve towards the vision
16. Only works if…
17. The right people needed..
18. Works nice on team level – how to scale on enterprise level? …… Lean tier Board system
19. Holacracy / DevOps Leadership is the secret sauce of sucessful DevOps Transformation If the sauce is wrong, the whole meal get’s ruined!
20. a_lichtenberger www.pontine.ch www.devops.ch - DevOps authors wanted!