Stop Hiring Devops Experts (And Start Growing Them) - PuppetConf 2013

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"Stop Hiring Devops Experts (And Start Growing Them)" by Jez Humble, Principal, ThoughtWorks. Presentation Overview: Everyone is putting "devops" on their LinkedIn profile, and everyone is trying to hire them. In this talk, Jez will argue this is not a recruitment problem but an organizations failure. This talk discusses how to grow great people and great organizations, and how the two problems are connected. Speaker Bio: Jez Humble is a Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He has worked as a software developer, product manager, consultant and trainer across a wide variety of domains and technologies. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices.

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@jezhumblepuppetconf, 23 august 2013

stop hiring devops experts(and start growing them)

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hiring a devop

http://gun.io/blog/how-to-hire-devops/

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“the game has changed”

Andrew Shafer | @littleidea | “There Is No Talent Shortage” | http://slidesha.re/14TV4fdFriday, August 23, 13

Michael Sahota | @MichaelSahota | http://bit.ly/13Btc5cFriday, August 23, 13

you can’t hire in cultural change

http://www.cutestpaw.com/images/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/Friday, August 23, 13

experimentation / improvisation

we grow systems and knowledge

20% time, pairing

how well do we cultivate knowledge?

role of management?

cultivation culture

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creating a “devops team”

training

buying tools

hiring people

not very e!ective

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fragile

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resilient

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scjody/4628723629/Friday, August 23, 13

antifragile

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antifragile

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

“From life's school of war: what does not kill me makes me stronger.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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game days

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simian army

http://diannemarsh.comFriday, August 23, 13

establish a sense of urgency

"a majority of employees, perhaps 75 percent of management overall, and virtually all of the top executives need to believe that considerable change is absolutely essential”

John P. Kotter, Leading Change, p51Friday, August 23, 13

what does devops mean?

“when confronted with the question, ‘Are you a DevOps?’ I answered the only way I knew how. Someone was asking me not whether I was quali"ed to "ll a role, but whether I believed in a movement. Whether #ow was of the utmost importance. Whether communication was more important than silos. ‘Of course not, are you an Agile?’”

Dave Mangot | @davemangot | http://bit.ly/16YHqu3Friday, August 23, 13

resources

DLOQ: http://www.partnersforlearning.com/questions2.asp

Sahota, An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-adoption-transformation

Game Days: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371297

Google DiRT: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516

Net!ix culture: http://slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

BOOKS

Schneider, The Reengineering Alternative

Kotter, Leading Change

Taleb, Antifragile

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