Visualizing Self - Exploring Your Personal Metrics

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Imagine a future in which you can more easily log, measure, and visualize work in ways that allows you to make decisions about how you improve, and choose work. Let's work together to change the culture around performance reviews by talking about the work we do, share metrics that expose the value of our work, and communicate about our work through visualizations.

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Visualizing SELF Jennifer Davis

@sigje

•  Blue – Work. •  Green – Done. •  Yellow + Red – Not work.

Did  anyone  hear  me?  

• Lines of code? • Bugs closed?  

http://www.axosoft.com/blog/2012/08/23/measure-agile-metrics-that-work

the culture around how we work, communicate about our work, and the work we do.

•  Common language to describe our work.

•  Mechanisms to measure our work.

•  Tools to visualize our work.

•  Personal •  Job satisfaction •  Control

•  Team •  Relationships •  Elimination of traditional

support heroics

•  Company •  Evaluation •  Feedback

WHY VISUALIZATIONS?

#hugops

• Reversing perception of ops – BOFH • Language – Culture Shift

HUGOPS BOFH

??? Top down Performance

visualization

visualization

Common Language

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypic/

Who are you?

OPS DEV QE

Roles

Ops

Dev QA

Along with product management, legal, finance, ..

Work Bugzilla Barriers

Who are you?

Leonard John Matthews - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mythoto/

Talent

Skills Enjoyable Tasks

Talent

Skills Enjoyable Tasks

% of time spent on easy skilled tasks that we don’t enjoy..

Talent

Skills Enjoyable

Tasks

Reality of knowing self … enjoyable work. … our skills. … our talent.

Talent

Skills Enjoyable Tasks

Finding the work we enjoy.

Work

• Work = lots of tasks. • Task can be skill/level specific.

Discrete measureable tasks.

Failing Gracefully

puppet

ruby

SKILLS

perl

nosql

operability security

mysql

unix

TCP/IP

bash

CHEF

YOU  WORK  

Company != Identity && Role != You

Measure • Work • Skills

Honesty

Start small …

COUNTS LATENCY

Accounting …

How much time? On what? Value?

Close out work you aren’t investing in.

Choose work.

Say no. Say YES And.

Make a goal.

.. “WIP” 5 tasks/week

.. “DONE” 9 tasks/WEEK.

.. 1 new job

.. Mentored 7 women speakers, 3 accepted to Grace hopper conference. .. Switchover 8 hrs to 1 hr. .. 3 bosses/6 months.

Share.

VISUALIZE • Reuse • Tools

Showing vs Saying

Team

Manager Customer

Tools • Build APIs. • Build for interoperability.

White House Web API standards https://github.com/WhiteHouse/api-standards

•  YUI •  HTML •  Chart •  Avg, SUM function

•  Common language to describe our work.

•  Mechanisms to measure our work.

•  Tools to visualize our work.

the culture around how we work, communicate about our work, and the work we do.

I’m an Engineer. I work at Yahoo! I am on the Grid Service Engineering team. We’re Hiring!

Thank you for your time and feedback!

QUESTIONS? • Email: sigje@yahoo.com • Twitter: @sigje

References: •  Maynard Webb – “The Worksheet” - http://maynardwebb.com/rebooting-work/the-worksheet •  Maynard Webb – “The Framework” - http://maynardwebb.com/rebooting-work/framework •  Leonard John Matthews – “Cogs” http://www.flickr.com/photos/mythoto/ •  AXOSOFT – “Streetlight effect”

http://www.axosoft.com/blog/2012/08/23/measure-agile-metrics-that-work •  Joan M. Mas – “Communication” - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypic/ •  Matt – “Barriers” - http://www.flickr.com/photos/drift-words/ •  Kate Matsudaira – “Leveling Up – Taking your engineering and operations” -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxEmiMJVq4 •  Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi – “Happiness and Productivity” -

http://ftp.iza.org/dp4645.pdf •  Rescuetime - http://www.rescuetime.com •  YUI – “Chart Module” - http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/guides/ •  Mandi Walls – “Challenges To Cultural Change” -

http://www.slideshare.net/lnxchk/challenges-to-cultural-change

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