“…high performing organizations ship code
30 times faster (and complete these
deployments 8,000 times faster), have 50%
fewer failed deployments, and restore
service 12 times faster than their peers.”
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The key in such a transition to
continuous delivery is to expect
things to get worse before you’ll be
able to make them better.
– Matthias Marschal
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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
- Correlli Barnett, paraphrasing
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
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Simple, Complicated, Complex
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“The key to the Toyota Way and what makes
Toyota stand out is not any of the individual
elements…But what is important is having all
the elements together as a system.”
- TAICHI OHNO
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Semi-Autonomous Teams
■ Aligned by shared
understanding
■ Cross-functional and
balanced
■ Make “Good Enough”
decisions, quickly
■ High-bandwidth
communication
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Experimental Mindset:
■ Expect failure! (80%)
■ Retrospectives are where
the learning happens
■ Experiment everywhere:
■ Feature Flags
■ Blue/Green Deploys
■ MVP definitions
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In times of profound change, the
learners inherit the earth, while
the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with
a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
侘寂
wabi sabi
"In bonsai and in haiku, you prune and trim what is
nonessential in an attempt to shorten the distance between
the observer and the observed.”
Richard Powell, Wabi-Sabi Simple
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Recap
■ Systems are Complex
■ Semi-Autonomous Teams
■ Experimental Mindset
■ Continuous Learning
■ Tomorrow’s Skillset
■ Wabi Sabi Technology
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"Culture does not change because we
desire to change it. Culture changes
when the organization is transformed;
the culture reflects the realities of
people working together every day.”
- Frances Hesselbein
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References
Interested in learning more about cloud native development,
responsible autonomy and complex systems, or how to manage
the cultural aspects of your digital transformation?
● http://www.conversationagent.com/2015/11/simple-complicated-and-complex-
problems.html
● https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/writing/1993-ericsson.pdf
● https://www.army.mil/article/106872/understanding_mission_command
● https://www.mobs-lab.org/
● http://cloudfactor.io
● https://pivotal.io