Scuba and Ops - what can we learn from the underwater environment

The skills and techniques needed to explore wrecks, caves and other challenging underwater environments have lots to teach those of us from the ops persuasion.

This was presented at DevOps Days NYC on May 1, 2015. The full abstract is available here: http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-newyork/proposals/ScubaAndOps/

To watch the talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2mKslwJ-70

Transcript

1. S C U B A A N D O P S W H A T C A N W E L E A R N F R O M T H E U N D E R WA T E R E N V I R O N M E N T ?
2. T H E Y D O N ’ T A C T U A L LY M I X M O S T O F T H E T I M E , B U T …
3. I T TA K E S A T E A M N O T J U S T A S I N G L E 1 0 X E R
4. 2 0 H O U R S U N D E R WAT E R 5 0 + I N V O LV E D
5. S TA N D A R D I Z E D I F F E R E N C E S L E A D T O C O N F U S I O N
6. S TA N D A R D I Z E C O N F U S I O N L E A D S T O A N G E R
7. E G O H A S N O P L A C E U N D E R WAT E R ( O R I N T H E D ATA C E N T E R ) I T W I L L G E T Y O U K I L L E D
8. FA I L U R E H A P P E N S H O W Y O U D E A L W I T H I T I S T H E K E Y
9. P R A C T I C E S O I T ’ S A U T O M A T I C
10. P R A C T I C E W H E N D I D Y O U L A S T … .
11. FA I L U R E I S C O M P L E X R A R E LY A S I N G L E FA C T O R
12. C H E C K L I S T S S AV E L I V E S S E R I O U S LY
13. C H E C K L I S T S S AV E L I V E S S E R I O U S LY
14. M I N I M I Z E I M PA C T O F A S I N G L E P O I N T O F FA I L U R E
15. J U S T K E E P S W I M M I N G S A Y S A F R I E N D O F M I N E .
16. P E R S E V E R E Y O U M I G H T S U C K A T F I R S T
17. M A N Y D I V E S L AT E R I T TA K E S T I M E
18. I T ’ S N O T F O R E V E RY O N E A N D T H A T ’ S O K
19. C O M I N G T O G E T H E R I S A T H I N G O F B E A U T Y
20. T H A N K S F O R L I S T E N I N G @ D A R R O N / D A R R O N @ F R O E S E . O R G
21. G R E G M O S S F E L D T D A S E I N D E S I G N C A I T L I N R E G A N T H A N K S F O R T H E P H O T O G R A P H S