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#DOES20DOES20DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020
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#DOES20DOES20DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020
DevOps Enterprise Summit
From your perspective, what is one thing you want to know immediately when joining a new team?
Ben Grinnell
aims, names and faces
Elisabeth Hendrickson
What's the set of things that happen from idea through deploy and how long does each stage in that value stream take?
Elisabeth Hendrickson
@Ben_Grinnell Oh good point! Yes, I want to know all the people first. Process second. (I was assuming I'd met everyone before actually joining the team.)
Marcello Marrocos โˆž
how is the coffee around here? By the way, what are the painful points of the xyz system?
Arun N
do they work remote :)
Dave Stanke
Can I bribe you with beer? How about cookies?
Matt K. Parker
I want to know how my teammates are feeling.
Chris
How the team collaborates and how we get feedback on the things we work on.
Dave Mangot
What do you look like when you feel stressed or anxious? (so I know how to help)
Paula Thrasher
I like to understand the mission, and how people connect with it (or not). Good teams have mission passion.
Matt K. Parker
@paula_thrasher I like to know that to... before I join a team. I want to join teams that have a mission that motivates _me_.
Paula Thrasher
@mrmarrocos The benefit for remote work is consistently good coffee!
Marcello Marrocos โˆž
@mrmarrocos Or maybe "tell me where it hurts..."
Jonathan Smart
who is on the team. Why are they are on the team. What are the team outcomes. How is the team reflecting and improving.
Paula Thrasher
@realMattKParker I had someone pose the question once - do you make stuff, or do you make paper (or powerpoint)? I aspire in life to only answer that I make stuff.
Roman Pickl
what they would like to change if they could change only one thing
Matt K. Parker
@paula_thrasher Awesome! Totally agree. I'd only add that I aspire to make the stuff that matters.
Siddharth
how open they are thought of moving ahead with open ears & mind. that defined their culture & how can I survive thereafter #devops #does20
DevOps Enterprise Summit
What is your favorite (or least favorite) jargon in the IT space? Why?
Paula Thrasher
I hate the term software factory. its insulting both to software engineers and to factories.
Arun N
"Lets put Resources on it", its people not resources!
Jonathan Smart
@paula_thrasher Totally. Emergent Determinism.
Chris
Calling people resources. They are people.
Dave Stanke
I'm currently feeling grumpy about "modern applications"... it implies that everything which doesn't adhere completely to today's trends--I mean, best practices--is an "ancient application."
Stephen
"capacity" It's not like it's a bucket with a certain number of hours. Focus, mix of activities, etc all matters when it comes to productivity and happiness.
Chris
@davidstanke Micro services has taken on a whole new meaning too unfortunately.
Matt K. Parker
Most favorite: Maker. We are makers; we bring new products into the world through collaboration and creativity, through learning, caring, and safety.
Paula Thrasher
I hate the term Hybrid cloud when used to mean "keep our data center but run one small app on AWS"
Jonathan Smart
Least favourite: Velocity. Say/Do Ratio. Maturity Model. Resources.

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Paula Thrasher
favorite term is Technical Debt. Its overused, but its so real. SO REAL.
Dave Stanke
@mickfeech Yeah, every customer I speak to has a huge monolith, and then "a handful of microservices that do some auxiliary things." So it's neither here nor there, and everyone's disappointed by it. :-(
Dave Mangot
@paula_thrasher Perfectly said. Look over here in this dark corner, we're agile we're cloud! (or whatever)
Marcello Marrocos โˆž
@paula_thrasher agree! All tech is debt, as learned from @davidstanke at devopsdays nyc! ;)
Jonathan Smart
Favourite: Outcomes. Autonomy. Multi-disciplinary. Emergence.
Jonathan Smart
Better Value Sooner Safer Happier
Jonathan Smart
Elephant Carpaccio
Matt K. Parker
Least favorite: Velocity. Never has a good idea been more abused and misused.
Chris
Favorite: Empathy (although we don't talk about it as often as we should).
Paula Thrasher
@davidstanke Hybrid: To do two things badly
Jonathan Smart
+: Psychological Safety
Dave Stanke
@jonsmart YES -- Supporting psychological safety is *proven* to make teams more effective. And I'm pretty sure it makes us better humans.
Dave Mangot
Favorite: Kaizen. It's never hard to get people to agree that we can always get better.
Johan Tegler
Favorite: learning, fast feedback
Siddharth
most favourite is. If you can't search over #google you can be good IT engineer :D #devops #does20
Gene Kim
Speaking of the low transaction cost of scheduling Zoom meeting: How much of your day is double- or triple-booked? Discuss!
Matt K. Parker
There's what's in the calendar... and then there's the children sitting next to you zoombombing your every meeting.
Ben Grinnell
About 50% - I have 1st choice and backup choices for quite a few hours
Kate Chapman ๐Ÿฅ
Only about once every week or two. We have public calendars in our org and a culture of generally not booking over top of things.
Gene Kim
(I was relating to people here: this week, I have an oddly high number of 2x or 3x overbooking... and finding which timeslot to use for urgent meeting was surprisingly difficult. (thank goodness @apitrevolution could help me out!))
Stephen
Too much of it! You know it's bad when you have to start blocking off time for lunch.
Elisabeth Hendrickson
@stephenmagill Oh, I always block off time for lunch, even when not necessary.
Paula Thrasher
Good time to plug Making Work Visible https://itrevolution.com/book/making-work-visible/
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Chris
Quite a lot unfortunately. It's been getting better the last month or so though.
Jonathan Smart
@stephenmagill Likewise, I always block out lunch
Dave Mangot
TFW you come to the realization the the way you generate work is not to write code or fix things but to enable others to do so by attending meetings.
Chris
@jonsmart I do too and still meetings end up during that time period :(
Paula Thrasher
My peak disaster was about three years ago in a role where I was regularly triple booked. I am much more calendar protective now. Its life changing.
Gene Kim
@davemangot ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
Arun N
if people really want you on the meeting then they need to respect the calendar. Its a representation of your time and commitment
Jonathan Smart
Judicious use of the Decline button
Chris
Fun game trying to get them rescheduled in a timely fashion too.
Matt K. Parker
Not only is it hard for you... it's hard for the people trying to get on your calendar. Your job is to support those people, and they struggle to get a minute of your time. There must be a better way.

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Paula Thrasher
@davemangot Agree on this point. As a leader I think you need to go to meetings so your team doesn't have to (so they can get things done)
Marcello Marrocos โˆž
I'd say that 25%. Some recurrent meetings contributes a lot for that!
Chris
@jonsmart One thing I've told my team though, don't accept a meeting with no agenda.
Paula Thrasher
@mickfeech Agree with agenda mandatory. I'll go further. Invites need to include a meeting purpose, agenda and clarify if its informational, decision making, updates. Make meetings count (so you have less wasted time)
Dave Mangot
@paula_thrasher Agenda's yes, but also room for flexibility/socializing. Working remote can be very isolating and meetings that are "strictly business" can be pretty draining. Still need time to be a team, as people.