You
• Development
• Operations
• Interested/involved in DevOps
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Your Boss
• Manages several people
• Product owner
• Responsible for costs & risks
• Trying to cover his/her ass
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What prevents change?
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Fear.
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Your Boss’s Fears
• Is DevOps more expensive?
• Is DevOps slower?
• Is the talent pool smaller?
• What if it doesn’t deliver?
• It sounds more complex!
• It doesn’t sound Agile™!
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Division of Labour
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Division of Labour
• Developers are good at Development
• Ops staff are good at Operations
• Now we need people who know both!?
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How do you fight fear?
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Pathos + Ethos + Logos
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Pathos
• “Never waste a good crisis”
• When stuff breaks, be:
1. The guy/girl who fixes it
2. The guy/girl saying “I told you so”
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Lean Transition
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Lean Transition
• Q: How do you implement DevOps?
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Lean Transition
• Q: How do you implement DevOps?
• A: One fuck-up at a time.
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Ethos
• Trust
• Good faith
• Experience
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Logos
• Facts + numbers
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Numbers
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Numbers
• Monitor, measure, profile: before and after
• How much time do I/we spend SSH-ing?
• How much time do I/we spend writing shell
scripts?
• How often do things fail?
• How badly do they fail?
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Hiring
• How easy is hiring Chef/Puppet/DevOps
specialists compared to normal sysadmins?
• Do DevOps specialists earn more money
than sysadmins? How much more?
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Big Circle
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Small Triangle
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Summary
• DevOps is a journey, not a destination
• Understand your boss’s position
• Fight fear with:
• Pathos (pain)
• Ethos (trust)
• Logos (logic)
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And one more thing…
• You’re in the small triangle
• If your boss really doesn’t listen, QUIT.
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