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How to thwart your devops transformation with c...

How to thwart your devops transformation with counterinsurgency doctrine

This session is a journey to the dark side.

The situation: You find yourself trying to halt the momentum building around a DevOps movement by a bunch of young upstarts in your organization. This emerging culture threatens the ways of working that have become standard (and comfortable) while building your career.

Your mission is to stop this DevOps transformation in its tracks.

Using the U.S. Army's Field Manual on Counterinsurgency, this session dives into the strategies and tactics used by the U.S. military to stop insurgencies and will teach attendees how to identify the other side's motivations so attendees can help advance a DevOps agenda within their organization.

Lindsay Holmwood

September 23, 2020
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  1. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 3 The situation: A bunch

    of young upstarts are trying to “do devops” at your job.
  2. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 4 The situation: This threatens

    what you know and love about your job.
  3. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 5 The situation: You need

    to stop this devops transformation in its tracks.
  4. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 11 “[Success requires the status

    quo] be accepted as legitimate by most of that uncommitted middle, which also includes passive supporters of both sides”
 – 1-108, FM 3-24
  5. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 12 “it is usually not

    enough for counterinsurgents to get 51 percent of popular support; a solid majority is often essential”
 – 1-109, FM 3-24
  6. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 14 1. Understand the Environment

    2. Insurgents Must Be Isolated from Their Cause and Support 3. Use the Appropriate Level of Force 4. Sometimes Doing Nothing is the Best Reaction
  7. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 16 What is the 


    environment?
 culture + groups + narratives + values
  8. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 27 If you can, 


    stop cloud adoption before it happens
  9. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 28 Slow it down to

    the point it’s no more effective than doing things on-prem
  10. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 30 Co-opt language: “We are

    already doing continuous delivery”
  11. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 32 Push as many changes

    as possible through
 change advisory boards
  12. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 34 Use your intelligence
 


    The smarter you are, the better you are able to rationalize behavior to meet your goals.
  13. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 35 2. Insurgents Must 


    Be Isolated 
 from their 
 Cause and Support
  14. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 36 “It is easier to

    separate an insurgency from its resources and let it die than to kill every insurgent.” – 1-128, FM 3-24
  15. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 37 “Eventually, the people marginalize

    and stigmatize insurgents to the point that the insurgency’s claim to legitimacy is destroyed.”
 – 1-130, FM 3-24
  16. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 41 3. Use the 


    Appropriate 
 Level of Force
  17. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 42 “An operation that kills

    five insurgents is counterproductive if collateral damage leads to the recruitment of fifty more insurgents.” – 1-141, FM 3-24
  18. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 44 “Who wields force is

    also important.”
 – 1-143, FM 3-24
  19. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 48 “[Success requires the status

    quo] be accepted as legitimate by most of that uncommitted middle, which also includes passive supporters of both sides”
 – 1-108, FM 3-24
  20. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 49 4. Sometimes 
 Doing

    Nothing 
 is the 
 Best Reaction
  21. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 50 “Often insurgents carry out

    a terrorist act or guerrilla raid with the primary purpose of enticing counterinsurgents to overreact” – 1-152, FM 3-24
  22. © 2020 All Rights Reserved. 54 Think of this as

    red teaming for organizational change
  23. Want to learn more? Lindsay Holmwood @auxesis • Army Field

    Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency • OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual • Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal