What Happens Without Traction?

What if you're not the CTO and you want to improve your quality, performance and stability.
This is my story of working within low buy-in, legacy, siloed organizations to break down barriers, blur borders and eliminate constraints. I’ll also tie in material from ‘Driving Technical Change’ and ‘Building a DevOps Culture’

We’ll cover:
- tribes and guilds vs teams
- winning trust and building confidence
- simple risk and roi
- low impact tools

Transcript

1. What happens without
   traction?
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2. So, nobody is coming to you
   saying: Ok, we're doing the
   DevOps now.
   That's probably for the best.
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3. Change vs. Stability
   Sharing
   Measurement
   Easy Wins
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4. Local change + holistic view
   is powerful
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5. Change vs. Stability
   Don't get burned.
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6. DevOps is here
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7. Some orgs just don't see themselves
   as software companies yet
   That's ok.
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8. Is your company ready?
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9. How do you fight inertia?
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10. This is knowledge work
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11. Know thy audience
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    Book: Driving Technical Change
    

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12. Know thyself
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13. Beware DevOps
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14. Sharing and Measurement
    The tricks of the trade
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15. Sharing
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16. Team exercises
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17. Measurement
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18. Value stream mapping
    Change Stabilization Validation Release
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19. Find your gaps
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20. Find your gaps
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21. Low cost, high ROI
    The tools of the trade
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22. Whiteboard / Post-it notes - map your value stream, try out kanban or just for visualization
    
    Slack - no installation, no money to build your guild
    
    StriderCD - npm installable CI server
    
    Vagrant - test infrastructure hypotheses, give staff a simple starting point
    
    Ansible - validate infrastructure, know your systems - agentless, use your own account
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23. Gitlab - you don't have to use public SaaS to have nice version control
    
    Trello - shared backlog, scratchpad, kanban, full on ticket tracking insanity
    
    Appear.in - 1to1 video calls without an app
    
    Boot2Docker - rapidly spin up Gitlab, ELK etc with *barely* any trouble
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24. Gitlab - you don't have to use public SaaS to have nice version control
    
    Trello - shared backlog, scratchpad, kanban, full on ticket tracking insanity
    
    Appear.in - 1to1 video calls without an app
    
    Boot2Docker - rapidly spin up Gitlab, ELK etc with *barely* any trouble
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25. Change something
    hypothesize, share, measure, share, implement, share, measure, share, repeat
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26. Questions?
    j.mp/talkresources
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