Welcome!

Welcome!Thank You For Being

Here.

Why Are We Here?

Can It Be Done?

Absolutely.

Inputs Outputs

½x 2x

1980s

(4x productivity difference)

Inputs Outputs

1/8000x

1/12x

30x

2x( > 100x productivity difference)

2010s

Should It Be Done?

Absolutely.

Mutually Exothermic Interactions

● Adrian Cockcroft

● Damon Edwards

● Dominica DeGrandis

● John Esser

Thank You, Programming Committee!

● Elisabeth Hendrickson

● Jez Humble

● Rohit Jainendra

● John Willis

Electric CloudWelcome

Thank You, Electric Cloud

Customers

Thank You, Platinum Sponsors!

Thank You, Gold Sponsors!

● Schedule Change: Start @ 8:20AM Wed

● Breaks in Exhibit Hall

○ Please visit our sponsors

● Twitter: #DOES14 @electric-cloud @realgenekim

● Livestreaming & recording

● Don’t be bandwidth hog

○ Don’t livestream onsite

○ Avoid huge downloads

Few Housekeeping Items

● Listen

● Share

● Respect

● Speak Up

Code of Conduct

Back to Gene for Speaker

Intros

To Process/

Leftovers

Why are we here?● Gratitude: I’m so grateful that you’re all here. We’re here for a reason

● We all make jokes about unicorns and horses; they’re the same.

o The more I heard, the more I felt that these stories of transformation is

as heroic as anything you’d hear from Google, etc.

o Can we? yes.

● Should we do it? Yes, the business value

● Inexorability: five years from now, there will be a community that

continually is fixated on how to create high performing tech orgs

o it’s not about DevOps is important

o It’s not just about code and technical practices; it’s not just about

dollars and profit; I think there’s another reason that brings most of us

to the table

o Must we? Are we obligated to?

● This stuff is ever more important

Welcome!

And Thank You For Being Here!

Why Are We Here?

Why are we here?

● How large, complex orgs transform from low > high is not well-understood

● 18 months ago, I was talking with Erez Nir, CTO, Mitchell (who is here)

o Lamenting is that all the stories we hear about are the unicorns?

o What are enterprise organizations doing?

● What do we do when there’s already technology support?

o This isn’t a problem of unicorns vs. horses

● What leaders are going to look for is fuel: fuel is in the discontent in this monster that we’ve

created; century of command/control birthed during Taylorism;

● Injustice that is being ameliorated

● It isn’t just Nathan, you have your own stories that match his. And that’s why this matters.

o As a profession, we’ve created a system of work that has created far from ideal outcomes

o Better for the business, better for people;

o That’s why this matters.

Why are we here?

● Accelearte the rate of adoption

● Increase the likelihood of those transofmration succeeding

o where every conversation you have over the enxt 3 days are about goals about tings

important to you, and that you’re the help you need.

o I’ve asked every speaker to say, “XXX”

o You’re surrouned by 500 people of the best people int he game; that you’ll have 3 days of

interactions w/people who have the same goals are, and you’re getting the help you need

to get from here to there.

● Technology case - Can it be done?

○ How are enterprising transforming? I don’t know. I kept asking

○ The more I heard, the more I felt that these stories of transformation is as heroic as

anything you’d hear from Google, etc.

● Business case - Should we do this?

○ We love talking CI/CD, but often how to describe to the business case to others is more

elusive.

○ I am also certain that these stories you’ll hear today & in the next 3 days, you’ll hear how

people leading these transfortions KNEW where the org needed to go, and did everything

they could to get the org there, often putting themselves in jeopardy

○ Survey of practice results

○ cust sat, organization wins in the marketplace

○ b/c we’re having our asses handed to us

● Human case - Why does it matter?

○ Nathen Shimek

○ One of the biggest surprises and most rewarding things about the Phoenix Project is

hearing the why?

● In manufacturing, everyone knows that inventory levels and cycle time matter.

● 3-5 years from now, everyone will know about the business impact of those measures on the IT

value stream

● 4x the productivity

● as you hear about these amazing transformations, you’ll be increasing convinced that you can

make the business case when you go home,

● Urgency: in the 3-5 years,

How can we make it so?

On Horses and Unicorns

● They are doing business much like we were

Thank Program Committee and EC

● They are doing business much like we were

Our goals and aspirations?

Ice Breaker questions

● what are you working on that looking for help?

Code of Conduct

The Human Cost

● Nathan Shimek statement

Thank you

Tue Closing:

Gene hosts and does intro to Axelos for 3m on stage

Tue Closing:

There are no such thing as nameless, faceless bureaucracies. Runs on its own, full of people trying to

do the right thing.

They’re all trying to do the right thing.

Of course, we all know that there is no better example of an organization that inspires innovation and

freedom than the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security.