GamifyDevOps

A3. What are key components of Games to enable mindset shift? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/26636
1. Experiential Learning 2. Apply Kolb Learning styles, 3.Getting the team to continually improve and see visibly the results 4. Enable continual feedback and collaboration for better result

A7 - North Star for Gamification of devops includes 1.Getting the entire organization involved in a fun way to learn, share & experiment via Gamification 2.Understand that Culture change is the most important aspect for devops adoption 3. Effective collaboration in a remote env

A6. Some of the key challenges in adopting to Gamification for devops includes 1.mindset change, 2. challenging the status quo 3. Thinking beyond tools and automation 4. Getting clarity on philosophy, science and then engineering of #DevOps 5. Going beyond conventional training

Some of the games you tried for DevOps @sureshgp @WSzepesi @MaciejJarosz5 @jlcastrot ?

The games I talked about are the ones we sell: Elevation of Privilege (and the variant OWASP Cornucopia), Squad Healthcheck (and the expanded variant Multi Team Software Delivery Assessment), and I briefly mentioned features of Planning Poker gameplay (focus on outlier)

A5.How do you recommend to model incentives? - We can provide points, badges, callout with special recognition. However the best one we have seen to work is when the team finally meets the business outcomes, it is very much satisfying and rewarding.

A2. 1. Understand the objectives of the devops practices we would like to achieve. 2. Learning outcomes, current experience & expertise of team mapped to desirable behaviours 3. Fail safe environment to reflect, improve and collaborate + performance dashboard reflecting progress

A4 Sriram's comment that the team needs to contribute to the game design rather than parachute in a non-aligned game is a great point. It makes me think that gamification is another process that needs to be learned as an individual, team and business in order to progress!

A1.What do you refer to as Gamification? - A simplistic way to get everyone involved engaged well, have a bit of competition, make learning fun and opportunity to experiment and learn as a fail safe environment. It inculcates improvement towards ABC (Attitude Behaviour & Culture)

A3. We also build a transfer of knowledge board based on what people observed, learnt and reflected. It is critical for the team to see how their learning curve improves outcomes. Here is a sample we received from participants as part of playing the online simulation of #DevOps