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The best moments have certainly been when I've had the chance to interact and have discussions and talk live with the other attendees.

I love that the audience doesn't have to "queue up" to ask questions. Asynchronous question / answer via chat applications makes the experience much more inclusive and dynamic.

I attended a conference that made good use of breakout rooms to have small group discussion.

I'm ready for something beyond just "remote working" now !

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One of the big questions that I wanted to have a good answer for was: should we have live talks or pre-recorded talks — after two months of research, the answer we arrived at really surprised me.

The events look like it's software from 1997 or it's new and it crashes; too much distraction from the main content and people

For me, the worst part is that my kids at home distract me from the conference.

Worst: watching the first 5 seconds of my pre-recorded video repeat 10 times :-0

For me the best is the possibility to attend multiple sessions from the sofa

My favorite session was Scott Hanselman and Friends at Build, because he managed to include so many colleagues in so many settings. It was authentic. My least favorite have been several talking head webinars.

@SamGuckenheimer It doesn't surprise me that Scott Hanselman pulled off a great session. He's a terrific human.

Worst: watching people try to get their audio working for 5m — I've learned that the technical risks of live presentations are many. 😂

@RealGeneKim I feel like it's cool and important to have a "live window" and lots of pre-recorded sessions for async consumption we did tracks for Dockercon.com

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Worst: having the chat window live next to the video screen, very distracting. No way to pause or hide the stream.

@CraigCookIT That's what twitch does and youtube

It is also great that now more conferences have videos sharing the conference by default!

Best: being able to view/attend a lot more conferences than previously possible (due to travel & time needed). Worst: network congestion making video/audio very inconsistent / terrible to experience

I attended DevOpsDays-NYC which was probably the last live DOD before the lockdowns. Everyone was awesome about first-bumping (not shaking hands), etc. It felt a bit goofy, now we realize it probably saved many lives.

@dvellante @jefffrick @stu could add some commentary here

The best is the fact that it's much easier to tune in only for a session or two I care a lot about. Unfortunately that's also the worst. I find myself not learning totally new things in the same way.

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee

TODO lists for the win.

Ideal 2: focus, flow, joy.

Kanban, Prioritize, Sports, Sleep, Enjoy!

Focus, habits, workspace, schedule, balance

Disable all distractions.

Prioritise, limit WIP, focus, exercise

Buy my book??? :-) http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0596007833/tomontime-20

@yesthattom again?

Stack compatible tasks

Sleep, Eat Well, Exercise, Focus

focus, prioritise, finish, then distract

note to self: DON'T have 7 different places to track work.

⬆️Trust, ⬇️Fear, 🤔Why, ⬆️Commitment, ⬆️Accountability

give yourself time to reflect

one thing at a time

@jimmyrhead +100 to limiting WIP

The best compliment I get is when people say they loan my book out and the person won't return it. (so, yes, they buy many replacements)

plan, focus, breaks, sport+leisure and sleep well

Only deep work in the morning; I try to reserve mornings for writing.

fewer meetings, fewer interruptions, focus

Only deep work in the morning; I try to reserve mornings for writing:

Only deep work in the morning; I try to reserve mornings for writing: I'm going to try to read "Deep Work" soon! Recommended on a great podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013UWFM52/ref=dp-kindle...

@RealGeneKim So what are doing on this crowdchat?

Why not?

It worked for a 45-year old huge organization with lots of legacy software called Microsoft, so why not you? :)

What does DevOps mean to you?

DevOps is a toolbox and you should pick the tools that work for you. When people say "devops won't work here" they are thinking all-or-nothing. Every org has 1 painpoint that DevOps can recommend a remedy.

@DivineOps agree...It worked for a 165 year insurer!

I like to ask them what they've tried so far, maybe suggest a few things they haven't considered trying yet. I find it hard to believe that they can't benefit from some aspect of DevOps!

my response is "you will be out of business soon"

"It's actually you that won't work here ;-)"

Improvement is ot necessary, but then nor is survival.

Same as @jimmyrhead : Can you explain what Devops mean to you?

(snark) so... you don't think you can improve at delivering more value faster with more stability?

@jgallimore lol, I'm picturing he hard "no" some folks would answer that with.

I'd ask what they think of as DevOps -- and try to determine if the issue is more a hangup on terminology, or if they really can't work to iteratively improve how they use people, process, and tools to improve software engineering

@kmugrage them: no. me: roger. (sells that company's stock)

More seriously I tend to avoid any buzzwords and talk about how agile is blind development without the feedback loop that devops enables - engaging users and acting of feedback from real software....

@SamGuckenheimer Agree. If people aren't clear on their motivation to change, they are unlikely to make change work.

I actually rarely hear the "won't work here" anymore. It's much more common to hear "how come our competitor is so much better at this?!"

I hear there is a lot of unresolved trauma in that statement. Time to start asking coaching questions :)