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CloudOps Summit 2012, Frankfurt, 20.9.2012 Track 3 - Cloud Skills by Chris Boos (@boosc) from @arago_ag http://cloudops.de/sprecher/#chrisboos Find the video of this talk at http://youtu.be/S2u3MdFzAA4
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Work 2.0 giving and taking
Chris Boos (@boosc) arago AG – the Automa?on Experts
The Image of Work 2.0
Everyone if doing whatever they want, whenever they want and all that is
happening in a fantas?c environment at exorbitant pay-‐grades
If you are feeling tense at Google… you can go and get a massage…..
At W.L. Gore the staff elect their CEO to avoid the Peter Principle…
A movie suggested to us that being able to hold your drink will get you a good engineering job at facebook…
And as a CEO of a hot startup in Berlin you spend your day in a coffee shop chaQng….
Why Are We Talking about Work 2.0
Modern day work is mostly cogni?ve. Working models crea?ng favorable condi?ons for physical work do not
necessarily work for thes requirements
Jobs with great perspec?ve, jobs that developed countries have to offer need brains, not bodies!
Unfortunately brains and bodies are not always connected… And we no longer just need the bodies, so we have to aWract the brains…
To avoid misunderstanding:
We need brains, because we need results. Thus the brains we want to aWract need to produce results…
The 1st law of behavioral physics tells us: Brains do not create results upon request
Conclusion:
It is an economic necessity to create environments to increase the likelihood of good results from brains
Fantas?c, Isn’t It?
Only if you actually produce results and only if you enjoy what you are doing. Otherwise you will break!
1. No waterfall plan 2. You have as
much free ?me as you like
3. You choose your work
4. There are lots of services to make you feel warm and fuzzy
1. You cannot hide
behind procedures, you are responsible for your results
2. No results means you are out
3. Noone tells you what to do
4. No geQng used to things
Besides the Fun, What Does Work 2.0 Mean for Teams?
People have to work at high energy levels and they have to work together, rely on each other and get things done.
Since you cannot accomplish much by yourself and all your colleagues are as free as you are, you will have to make yourself fully transparent to your team
You will be compared and measured every step of the way, because that is the only way create a just load distribu?on within a team
Unless you want to work double without any recogni?on or reward, you will have to speak up about lazy or incompetent colleagues
Your problems are your problems.
And unless you show some selflessness and help your colleagues at your own expense from ?me to ?me you will have to solve your problems yourself
You will have to deliver – at your own expense (i.e. ?me) or your colleagues will diss you because you slow them down and make the team look bad. If you want help, you will have to give help.
Confused Yet? Is Work 2.0 Good or Bad Now?
As everything in life the new way of working has upsides and downsides. You have to be aware of them and for yourself the upsides
have to outweigh the downsides.
Good, if you… 1. are curious 2. are passionate 3. consider work
part of your life 4. can mo?vate
yourself 5. love success 6. want to be beWer
than others 7. s?ll want to wok
in a team
Not good, if you… 1. you are working
to fund your life 2. have a job you
do not like 3. like to hide
behind processes or bosses
4. are trying to produce something only you like and others don’t
From a global perspec?ve you will have to admit: 1. The giant
compensa?on we get in developed countries are only jus?fiable, if we do outstanding and new stuff
2. Me too stuff can be produced elsewhere at half the cost
Stop whining how unfair companies are who move jobs to cheaper places.
You do the same thing when shopping – every day!
But when this is your cup of tea, you are
lucky…
By design you are constantly improving
By default you know what you are doing and why you are doing it And you can realte to your work!
You can really choose what you do, how much you do and when you do it
You work in a team of helpful people
You are not surrounded by idiots
Your junior colleagues want to learn from you, they do not want your job
An Example
Work 2.0 in arago’s product development team, an evolu?onary
process in full swing
Only 2 job descrip?ons: 1. Senior
2. Junior
Senior:
-‐ Can take responsibility for project / idea delivery
-‐ Con submit own projects and ieads
-‐ Must work = do tasks
-‐ Must share knowledge
Junior:
-‐ Must work = do tasks
-‐ Must share knowledge
Market of ideas:
-‐ There is pool of ideas that need implemen?ng.
-‐ 10% of all ideas come from the seniors with no regard for the roadmap.
-‐ Seniors apply for ideas and haggle for their teams
Market of tasks:
-‐ Within a team there is a market of tasks that need comple?on.
-‐ You pick what you want and can do.
-‐ Your colleagues will rely on you.
We have open sourced this tool suite. Check it out at: hWps://github.com/arago/rike
Rewards:
-‐ Get your own ideas implemented by the coolest team you can imagine
-‐ Go to cool conferences (we do no normal IT training, because we are all able to read books!)
Housekeeping:
-‐ If no one wants to work with you, you are out. The team gets to decide.
-‐ If you badmouth people behind their backs, you are out.
Conclusions
You have endured only 42 slides… Do you want the big picture?
Working 2.0 is not for everyone…
If it is not for you, you are kind of unlucky, because your job is likely to be moved to a place where whatever you
do can be produced cheaper.
That is if you are not selling local services.
But if Working 2.0 is for you, you gain beyond and measure, because you will do your work as a happy person.
Thank you for your ?me
Chris Boos (@boosc) arago AG – the Automa?on Experts