Automating for Cultural Impact

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1. Automating for Cultural Impact Julian Cuevas
2. $/home/users/juliancuevas/ • Lead DevOps Engineer @ YellowPepper • Obsessed Automator • Tinkerer • CKAD • Kubernetes Junkie • Cloud Native Advocate
3. “Culture Can’t be Automated” Most texts about culture focus on getting buy-in from management, setting examples and changing attitudes in teams, no texts mention automation or any form of technical solution for it.
4. Why Automate? If I know my tools help me, I’ll be more willing to shift my worldview If I have a short feedback loop, I’ll be constantly improving my work If my processes are clear and trustworthy, I can consider new possibilities SECURE FAST AND RELIABLE ACCESSIBLE
5. —SOMEONE FAMOUS “Don’t Let the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good”
6. Automation Blockers Don’t Know What to Automate Who Should Automate Best Tool for the Job
7. Benefits Less Headaches Adaptability Faster Work
8. The What Anything that makes people’s lives easier Anything that gives people more insight into their work/product Everything from excel spreadsheet calculations to environment healthchecks USER EXPERIENCE INFORMATION REPETITIVE TASKS
9. The How Use whatever tool you want to make a machine do it STEP 2 Find a task that is repetitive and/or dull, bonus points if task has high impact STEP 1 Test and deploy your automation STEP 3
10. THANKS! Questions? jcuevas@yellowpepper.com +57 310 551 4204