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#DOES20DOES20DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020
DevOps Enterprise Summit
The anti-patterns you hear about high performance that make you shake your head are...?
Duena Blomstrom
"We just need to change the process"
Jeffrey Fredrick
"we need to get 10x developers"
Duena Blomstrom
"We just need to do SCRUM "properly" again"
Liam Gulliver
"We just need to ship X times a day"
Matt K. Parker
Anti-pattern: "Maximize velocity." Related: "Compare velocity from team to team". (The right pattern in this context: "Minimize volatility").
Jeffrey Fredrick
"we just had the wrong person in the role"
Duena Blomstrom
"We don't have time/money for the people thing"
Jeffrey Fredrick
"we should adopt the Spotify model"
Duena Blomstrom
"This would be better if we just changed cloud provider"
Liam Gulliver
"We need 'full stack' developers so they can take responsibility of every part of the cycle"
Duena Blomstrom
"Management likes this Agile thing, it's the developers that won't play ball"
Dave Mangot
we do daily standups (aka status reports) so "We're Agile!"
Jon Moore
"Why were your estimates wrong?"
Duena Blomstrom
"DevOps may be nice but doesn't work for OUR stuff"
Gene Kim
"You read too many books" 😂
Liam Gulliver
"Let's just do DevOps"
Duena Blomstrom
"We DO make our people feel heard, we do yearly employee surveys!"
Duena Blomstrom
You're gonna love this one @RealGeneKim #OverheardInEuropeanBank "Now I gotta read about Unicorns?!?"
Dave Mangot
We'll add on monitoring later
DevOps Enterprise Summit
What are the underrated learning moments that initiate change for teams but no one talks about?

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Jon Moore
I think it can be awkward to acknowledge how a crisis or failure can provide motivation for change that didn't exist in a non-crisis state.
Matt K. Parker
Books. People have literally been changed overnight by reading a book. It's one of the safest way to entertain new or contrarian ideas.
Ross Clanton
never waste a good crisis. This pandemic is creating a ton of opportunities for learning and 'change' moments.
Dave Mangot
I always called myself an "opportunistic leader". When I saw an opportunity, I'd take it. Like @jon_moore said, " crisis or failure can provide motivation for change". Always look for opportunity in crisis.
Ross Clanton
Read the Phoenix Project... Oh wait! Everyone talks about it after they read it 😺
Jeffrey Fredrick
@realMattKParker books are underrated! Maybe reading groups generally.
Gene Kim
Speaking of bad societal outcomes caused by Twitter, this is the amazing Netflix documentary: “Social Dilemma”

https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224

Halfway thru it with @notoriousmvk!
https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224
The Social Dilemma | Netflix Official Site
The Social Dilemma | Netflix Official Site
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
Jeffrey Fredrick
In the #crowdchat learned from @DuenaBlomstrom about the Yale course The Science of Well-Being : https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well...
DevOps Enterprise Summit
Which DevOps “buzzword” do you dislike the most? Why?
Ross Clanton
I think DevOps has become the biggest DevOps buzzword at this point. It seems to mean anything and everything the person using it wants it to mean.
Jon Moore
How about "DevOps" itself? Leaves many disciplines out. But also still hearkens to "Dev" and "Ops" as separable activities, when the reality is that we are "evolving production."
Duena Blomstrom
Is that bad in itself though @RossClanton
Matt K. Parker
@RossClanton What does DevOps mean to people here?
Ross Clanton
@realMattKParker my favorite definition is still how Adam Jacob described it... "It's a cultural and professional movement". Although that's still not very specific though 🤔
Gene Kim
Learning about the free Yale course on "The Science of Well-Being", available for free on Coursera! Thx @DuenaBlomstrom

https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well...
https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being?utm_source=gg&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=01-BrandedSearch-US&utm_content=01-BrandedSearch-US&campaignid=380484307&adgroupid=102187343498&device=c&keyword=&matchtype=b&network=g&devicemodel=&adpostion=&creativeid=433079694377&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKC2yP-O7AIVeT2tBh2f8wJqEAAYASAAEgKn2_D_BwE
The Science of Well-Being
The Science of Well-Being
Offered by Yale University. In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happin...
DevOps Enterprise Summit
How do you prove/show the ROI of transformation work to finance teams? How do you get them on board?
Gene Kim
@jon_moore has the most amazing story about how they were able to able to enlist finance to enable technology teams to do amazing things!!!
Matt K. Parker
I honestly don't know.
Jon Moore
I don't find myself convincing Finance; it's usually convincing the people who own the budget, in reality. But Finance can be excellent thought partners--enlist their expertise to HELP you and make sure your business case holds water.
Jon Moore
If your transformation proposal is a "PR" against your company's operating code, then have Finance be the code reviewers.
Ross Clanton
In our case Finance felt IT was drunk and disorderly with our money. As they saw how product based funding can give full financial transparency in to how the money was actually being spent, they were ready to lead our change to a new product based funding model.
Ben Grinnell
I've just demonstrated a five fold increase in build progress in 6 months during Covid through better collaboration and ways of working. Now they are on board! Never really managed to do it ahead of having and example to show though
Dave Mangot
Finance can be like Security, the place where people say No. With the right finance team, like the right security team, we can apply DevOps principles to show Finance how they can empower the business to succeed.
Gene Kim
I've always found it super interesting to watch how CEOs interact with their CFOs — at a distance, it looks like the CFO is there to "keep us from doing stupid things."
Gene Kim
Fascinating discussion going on here in the #crowdchat conference call, describing all the novel ways to get people to complain about problems they encounter in their daily work!

@DuenaBlomstrom: warm up exercise: "what really bugged me last week," "if I were boss, I would.."
Gene Kim
..."the one thing that would make me look for another job is..."
Gene Kim
What a great way to get people primed to talk about problems, and overcome the habits of keeping it to themselves (either out of habit, fear of retribution/offending people/etc.)

She says that these warm-up exercises helped people get in the habit of complaining!
Jon Moore
I wonder if you have to be careful about soliciting more complaints than you have bandwidth to fix?
Duena Blomstrom
@jon_moore I like the honesty firehose :) Here's the video/article on How To Organise a Team B!tch Fest
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-organise-team-b...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-organise-team-btch-fest-duena-blomstrom?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_content%3Bs4WdlXt%2FSASI5ucChl3e6g%3D%3D&licu=urn%3Ali%3Acontrol%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_content-article_description
How To Organise a Team B!tch Fest
How To Organise a Team B!tch Fest
As promised yesterday, in this video, we’re going into a few practical suggestions on how to organise a team emotional blockers’ removal session aka a “B!tch Fest” from a logistical point of view. https://youtu.
DevOps Enterprise Summit
An new element of Virtual #DOES20 this year is the Slack channel for chatting with speakers and attendees. Is this trend for events / #remotework going to continue forever?
Jeffrey Fredrick
adding a Slack channel to connect speakers and attendees show how remoteness has added some affordances, not just taken them away. I wouldn't want to give up live events, and I wouldn't want to give up the channel of live interaction.
Ben Grinnell
If I could watch the talks I'm interested in and ask the questions they throw up I'd need a six day conference so its great but needs amazing focus/time management
Ross Clanton
I have no idea but I'm excited to try it out this year. It will be kinda cool to interact with folks live in slack while my talk is live.
Dave Mangot
having worked with distributed teams since 2001, beyond excited to see more people discovering #remotework can work. Done right, it's incredibly powerful. It will be interesting to see the balance when things are "normal". Distributed teams still need in-person time.
Gene Kim
I'm honestly wondering how all this will affect physical conferences when they finally return! I hope some of these amazing dynamics will be brought there! cc @RossClanton