What Happens Without Traction?

What if you're not the CTO and you want to improve your quality, performance and stability.
This is my story of working within low buy-in, legacy, siloed organizations to break down barriers, blur borders and eliminate constraints. I’ll also tie in material from ‘Driving Technical Change’ and ‘Building a DevOps Culture’

We’ll cover:
- tribes and guilds vs teams
- winning trust and building confidence
- simple risk and roi
- low impact tools

Transcript

1. What happens without traction? @steveElsewhere
2. So, nobody is coming to you saying: Ok, we're doing the DevOps now. That's probably for the best. @steveElsewhere
3. Change vs. Stability Sharing Measurement Easy Wins @steveElsewhere
4. Local change + holistic view is powerful @steveElsewhere
5. Change vs. Stability Don't get burned. @steveElsewhere
6. DevOps is here @steveElsewhere
7. Some orgs just don't see themselves as software companies yet That's ok. @steveElsewhere
8. Is your company ready? @steveElsewhere
9. How do you fight inertia? @steveElsewhere
10. This is knowledge work @steveElsewhere
11. Know thy audience @steveElsewhere Book: Driving Technical Change
12. Know thyself @steveElsewhere
13. Beware DevOps @steveElsewhere
14. Sharing and Measurement The tricks of the trade @steveElsewhere
15. Sharing @steveElsewhere
16. Team exercises @steveElsewhere
17. Measurement @steveElsewhere
18. Value stream mapping Change Stabilization Validation Release @steveElsewhere
19. Find your gaps @steveElsewhere
20. Find your gaps @steveElsewhere
21. Low cost, high ROI The tools of the trade @steveElsewhere
22. Whiteboard / Post-it notes - map your value stream, try out kanban or just for visualization Slack - no installation, no money to build your guild StriderCD - npm installable CI server Vagrant - test infrastructure hypotheses, give staff a simple starting point Ansible - validate infrastructure, know your systems - agentless, use your own account @steveElsewhere
23. Gitlab - you don't have to use public SaaS to have nice version control Trello - shared backlog, scratchpad, kanban, full on ticket tracking insanity Appear.in - 1to1 video calls without an app Boot2Docker - rapidly spin up Gitlab, ELK etc with *barely* any trouble @steveElsewhere
24. Gitlab - you don't have to use public SaaS to have nice version control Trello - shared backlog, scratchpad, kanban, full on ticket tracking insanity Appear.in - 1to1 video calls without an app Boot2Docker - rapidly spin up Gitlab, ELK etc with *barely* any trouble @steveElsewhere
25. Change something hypothesize, share, measure, share, implement, share, measure, share, repeat @steveElsewhere
26. Questions? j.mp/talkresources @steveElsewhere