Culture shock DevOps meetup Wellington 27 Sep 2016
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The document discusses how culture is integral to understanding DevOps, emphasizing that responsibility lies in enabling business through behavior change rather than directly altering culture. It highlights the challenges related to culture such as blame, trust issues, and resistance to change, alongside the importance of high-performance teams and generalist skills. Ultimately, it asserts that culture change begins with individual actions and attitudes.
Culture shock DevOps meetup Wellington 27 Sep 2016
- 2. If culture isn’t the first part of explaining DevOps, you’ve missed the point -John Willis Responsibility of DevOps is to enable the Business; DevOps is culture change, you cannot directly change culture but the behaviours; change in behaviour becomes culture.
- 3. • Production outage is always operations team issue • Logging Issue vs Fixing Issues • What is the charge code? • My resource is key resource and is always busy • I will do when time permits • I do not trust • It is always their fault • Why I need to change? • I know how to do my work • My work important than yours • Threat, if I automate I might not get $$$
- 4. What is wrong with my culture? A culture is defined as the organisation’s pattern of response to the problems and opportunities it encounters. - Ron Westrum
- 5. High-Performance When you put great people together they do great things. - Jody Mulkey
- 6. High-Performance Considering your ability to have a greater impact on an organisation beyond your own job title
- 7. High-Performance Understanding that your job is more than a job, and that you work more than a mere checklist
- 8. Attitude for Learning Ego is force field of learning
- 9. Generalizing Specialist Robert A. Heinlein said it best: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - See more at: http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/generalizingSpecialists.htm#sthash.gQtNyFwO.dpuf
- 10. Culture Change Starts with you