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the need for culture and organizational structure change

Grappling with integrating legacy applications

the morale improvements.

that things worth doing are hardly ever easy.

Understanding how DevOps builds on top of Lean and Agile to facilitate variable speed IT is a key awareness in understanding how to structure a DevOps program

the need to have common terminology, goals, measurements between teams that didn't in the past. finding consensus is difficult.

Definitely culture.... mindsets of your people and how they work together need to be oriented to get value out of DevOps.

Culture is a key component - also reducing variance in practices create patterns which can be automated

Agree with Carmen. I've heard that DevOps doesn't require Agile.

I rewatched @ScottPrugh talking about the work he's done for a 30 yr old COBOL app and the surrounding tech platforms

successfully balancing security/governance with speed

@bgracely well said

Culture. You can't just rename your teams to DevOps teams and tell them they are 'doing Agile'. You have to live it and stick with it.

Most under appreciated (or overlooked?): Change in mindset

@carmendeardo interesting stuff!

@JanJoostBouwman agree - Agile is really the middle of the Delivery Value Stream - you have to address both the upstream planning and flow and downstream automation

Definition of work. Rigor across the board.

most execs just don't understand the notion of "fail fast"

@carmendeardo Really agree with this

Management actions created conditions for these problems & only rethinking management can fix it. Everything else is addressing symptoms.

Culture changes and getting teams to collaborate is much more difficult at scale than people recognize.

people are not keeping an open-mind about changing old habits -- leading to some comic effect instead of valuable change.

Anytime an org is "doing DevOps", it's undervalued because once you are doing it, it's so simple and "duh" that it seems easy. Before you are "doing DevOps", it seems epically impossible. DevOps, when done right, is inherently undervalued. Hi Gene!

Kata... vision turns into culture...

To take from the 2015 State of DevOps...HIGHER FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE..."both culture and IT performance predict organizational performance, so improvements in these areas lead to better outcomes — including higher financial performance"

that to succeed you need to very intentional in growing the culture

Hi, @jpschneider! :) Telling everyone about you on the #crowdchat call. :)

Hi, @jdotp! :) Telling everyone about you on the #crowdchat call. :)

start small, aim big!

That we were on a DevOps Journey :-) Most of us started with DevOps practices like continuous integration, Agile before we realized that this was just part of the story of optimizing the delivery value stream

FOCUS!

I wish I had spent less time on the tooling, and more time getting ready for the cultural changes required to lead a DevOps effort

@DOESsummDon't let your passion sound like arrogance ..

Don't fight stupid.... Make more Awesome!

don't get FIRED!

#DevOps spans far beyond just the Dev & Ops teams...and far beyond just IT too. Engage the ecosystem.

.@DevOpsDonald I'm a big fan. :)

"DevOps is about tools like Astronomy is about telescopes" (I think @cshl1)

@mcgonagle what culture change readiness strategies would you suggest?

@JerDoug Right? "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars!"

@damonedwards laying it down dude.. :)

@RealGeneKim don't foRget to vOte for me! I'm going to MAKE DEVOPS GREAT AGAIN! #devops

That it's going to be a while.

@tcrawford Agree - It should be called DevDesignQABizDevProfsMarketingSalesFinanceSecurityOps

We always talk about leveling up technical skills. This will require leveling up people skills: patience, understanding etc.

@therealnikhil Leadership needs to take a big part in this and enable collaboration across the roles. The best example the leaders can show is that collaboration matters.

Michael, for me personally it would be leadership skills, IT strategy skills, innovation skills, business development skills, sales skills, marketing skills. All of which I think would make me a more effective cultural change agent.

It’s important to uniquely morph sustainable users to holisticly grow cost effective results. This will help
assertively unleash backward-compatible technologies and completely streamline fungible networks. #REALTALK

that there is a "devops person" and a "devops team". Can't stand hearing these things anymore. Also put "devops tool" into that fire as well.

“CD is only for web companies.” Embedded software benefits from being kept in a “releasable state,” too!

One myth is that Two/Variable Speed IT is something you do differently rather than the fact is a product of implementing solid Continuos Delivery Practices

it is not the silver bullit and CD is NOT easy. It is hard work!

and it takes time

It's not for 'systems of record'

it's only for the unicorns

That CD is done using tool named "X". Looking at technology/tools vs. looking at process, and it is damn hard to explain the difference to some people.

Faulty thinking that #DevOps and #ContinuousDelivery are the same thing

@tddouglas Yes!

@damonedwards Ack! That would be a dilemma! How do you deal?

@damonedwards Bingo...

I hate 2 speed IT... It automatically puts people in a mindset that they don't need to change if they aren't in the 'digital speed' category

that infrastructure/architecture/cd can be improved/changed with absolutely zero monitoring. And then when monitoring is suggested, it is said that it is a low-priority, and "just fix it like this, don't install monitoring"...

@RossClanton Probably the most detrimental and demoralizing concept floating around right now

@Ben_Grinnell can you elaborate on that. many people think systems of record don't deal with frequently-changing-environments well.

that service virtualization will cure all of our problems

@RossClanton Totally agree.

It increases risk!

@RossClanton Bi-Modal IT = 1. Gives excuse for bad practices 2. faulty logic that speed must mean low quality

it's not about doing releases every five minutes, it's about having the system and confidence to successfully release when required

@RossClanton exactly - it's like a car that only has 2 speeds - who would buy that?

@RossClanton Arghhhh.... There is no 2 speed IT. This just exacerbates the problem... That's like saying there should be slow/bad parts of the factory and fast/lean parts.