devops is dead
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DEVOPS IS DEADLong live DevOps!
SOME GROUND RULES
I’m no expert - this is just my perspective on things
(I am very skeptical of people who call themselves an expert at anything)
No death by Powerpoint
(or Keynote in this case)
Feel free to ask questions while I’m speaking
(Just don’t be rude about it)
I tend to swear like a drunken sailor quite often
(I’ll try to keep that out of this talk)
WHO AM I?
18 Year technology career so far
Unix/Linux/xBSD/Windows System Admin for over 14 years
Managed technology teams since 2009
Geek (SciFi Fan, Tolkien nerd, Gamer, etc)
Husband & Dog Person
Photographer (All these are my photos)
http://www.tomhealyphotography.com
Native Oregonian
Obsessed with Music
DEVOPS IS AN APPROACH, NOT A TITLE
A STORY IN THREE PARTS
My History
1. Building a collaborative team
2. Integrating Operations into an Agile software world
3. Changing the culture to adopt DevOps
BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE TEAMMy early days before DevOps had a name
PART 1: 2005 - 2010
I was never a DevOps engineer, I was a system administrator who wasn’t an a-hole to the users
I loved collaborating with various teams and trying to help improve the business processes
I wanted to work with others who wanted to work together to solve problems
I carried those principals into my first technical management job
INTEGRATING OPS INTO AN AGILE SOFTWARE WORLDMy first attempt to formalize something around DevOps
PART II: 2011 - 2014
Team of one. Then a Small team . Then a Medium team
Manual deployments by windows drag and drop to power shell automation
Building my first “DevOps” team (Ops, Release Management, QA, Development)
Giving my team DevOps titles and myself the title of Manager of Devops and why I’m ok with contradicting my very own point
CHANGING THE CULTUREThe blossoming teams at Jama
PART III: 2015 AND BEYOND
Triaging the department
Establishing the processes
Exposing the work
Adopting Scrum, planning for the unplanned
Integrating the team inward and outward
Getting rid of the name
Drive towards collaboration
Culture fit is MORE important that technology skills
You can teach tech, you can teach personality - no a-holes
Don’t call one team in your organization DevOps if you can avoid it
MOVING FORWARD
QUESTIONS?