DevOps - The Culture is a Lie
A presentation at DevOpsDays Nashville 2019 in in Nashville, TN, USA by Paul Czarkowski
The Culture is a Lie Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the toxic culture. Paul Czarkowski @pczarkowski © Copyright 2018 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved. Version 1.0
The Culture is a Lie Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the toxic culture. Paul Czarkowski @pczarkowski © Copyright 2018 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved. Version 1.0
Paul Czarkowski
Vysichka
Culture Automation Lean Measurement Sharing
Culture
Culture is driven by behavior Behavior is driven by incentive Incentive is driven by leadership
Leaders were put in place by the existing culture.
STORY TIME
EA
https://dilbert.com/strip/2009-10-09
https://dilbert.com/strip/2009-10-09
https://dilbert.com/strip/2009-10-09
DevOps Team
Anyways…
Meritocracy
Meritocracy
Meritocracy is the opposite of Diversity
“Every selection of one is a rejection of many.” - Michael Dunlop Young
Culture
Culture
I died on the culture hill
I died on the culture hill Twice.
Don’t die on hills.
Give up?
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.
And wisdom to know the difference.
“Change your job, or change your job” Some Famous Devop
“Accept your job, or change your job” - Me
“The grass is NOT Greener on the Other side”
Every Company Is a tirefire.
I L I T e g n l a o h r C nt Co
I L I T e g n l a o h r C nt Co I G A E L M U R C S E f Sa
L I T E L s p O v e I D I G E A n R a M S e b U n g R a n l C a K S o h C ntr n E a f o e a C L S
YOU ARE HERE
“Don’t fight stupid, Make more awesome!” - Jesse Robbins https://www.slideshare.net/jesserobbins/devops-change/
Culture Automation Lean Measurement Sharing
Empathy Automation Lean Measurement Sharing
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.” ― Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
EMPATHY
LEAN
LEAN != Agile
Kanban
Kanban
https://www.digite.com/kanban/kanban-board/
https://www.digite.com/kanban/kanban-board/
https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/12/24/productivity-depression-kanban-emoji/
“The secret to multi-tasking: do one thing at a time“ - Jérôme Petazzoni
https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/12/24/productivity-depression-kanban-emoji/
https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/12/24/productivity-depression-kanban-emoji/
https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/12/24/productivity-depression-kanban-emoji/
https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/12/24/productivity-depression-kanban-emoji/
https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/12/24/productivity-depression-kanban-emoji/
https://jpetazzo.github.io/2017/12/24/productivity-depression-kanban-emoji/
https://falconfastening.com/lean-learning/supply-chain/inventory-management-thru-valuestream-mapping-1-of-6-vsm/
AUTOMATION
#!/bin/bash for server in $(cat hostnames.txt); do ssh root@$server rm -rf / done
The Goal of Automation is to reduce toil.
The more you automate, the more time you have To automate.
Automation: Adding Value Toil: Costing Money
Sharing
Measurement
Culture Empathy Automation Lean Measurement Sharing
STORY TIME
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Source: @petecheslock
Source: @petecheslock
● ● ● ● Implements STIG controls via Ansible playbooks Opensource project started at Rackspace Plays well with existing config management Easily override problematic controls
● ● ● ● Extends RSPEC for Compliance testing Similar to Serverspec, but better. Easy to go from serverspec to inspec Inspec-STIG is all of STIG already written into inspec tests.
Transforming How The World Builds Software Paul Czarkowski @pczarkowski © Copyright 2018 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.
Paul Helping you sleep at night Paul Czarkowski @pczarkowski © Copyright 2018 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.
We’ve been focusing on the wrong part of CALMS. Sure you can set incentives, you can reorganize and adopt SCRUM, but rarely does one achieve a devops culture through business led “digital transformation”. Pulling from his personal experience in guerilla devops tactics, Paul will talk about the concrete steps that you as a practitioner can utilize.
While others fritter away at “culture,” you can tackle the practical portion of CALMS (Automation, Measurement, and Sharing) to start immediately improving your daily work, your team’s, and, ultimately, your entire organization. Before you know it, you’ll layed the foundation for actually having a devops culture. Sure, “culture” is important, but we’ve been fixated on it so long that we’ve sidelined the things that make devops life possible, and better. Paul will fill in those gaps and finally give you something to do other than fight yet another organization culture war.
for free. You
can too.
