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Settlers of DevOps - Boston 2017

Rob Cummings
September 18, 2017

Settlers of DevOps - Boston 2017

Rob Cummings

September 18, 2017
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  1. Settlers of DevOps Down with the Tyranny of Architecture Governance

    Rob Cummings Solution Principal, Slalom @opsrob
  2. Bi-Modal IT Governed by Enterprise Architecture May not have line

    of site to customer Mode 1 Systems of Record Mode 2 Systems of Innovation All the cool things, maybe
  3. “A system is more than the sum of its parts.

    It may exhibit adaptive, dynamic, goal-seeking, self- preserving, and sometimes evolutionary behavior.” -- Donella H. Meadows. “Thinking in Systems.”
  4. Traits of Pioneers - Live outside of “standards” and ITIL

    - Fail, lots - What they build usually isn’t trusted - (nor should it be) - Comfortable going with gut-feel
  5. Traits of Settlers - Make prototypes real - Build trust

    throughout the org - They adopt each other's ideas, with customization - (beginning of an ecosystem) - Continuous improvement
  6. Traits of Town Planners - Focus on what is common

    and well defined - Industrialize, scale - Operational efficiency - Build the services Pioneers rely on for future experimentation - Metric driven
  7. - Small group of pioneers - Sponsorship and common vision

    from the top - Got to near MVP state - Ultimately not adopted Continuous Delivery Pilot
  8. - Adopted much of the ideas and code - Shipped

    into production, made it their own - Followed by a number of other teams that adopted and some customized - Now we have a proliferation “problem” App Team - Settlers
  9. - Built a commodity pipeline and platform for the org

    to adopt - Intent is to allow pioneers and settlers to innovate on the next thing. Enter the Town Planners