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Company Culture hacking for
competitive advantage
David Lutz@dlutzy
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Competitive advantage?
There’s more to company culture than...
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hack1
Infrastructure as code
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"Infrastructure as code" is pretty clear. Treat your infrastructure as code. Programmable. Testable. Deployable. - lusis
Remove all that error-prone, hand-crafted, manual, boring old-school sysadmin stuff! - me
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Infrastructure as code:
● Aligns Dev and Ops processes● Builds transparency and trust
● Brings Dev and Ops closer together
Pull request for a firewall change anyone?
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hack2
Build interdepartmental empathy
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So you want root access on production eh?
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hack2.1 Build interdepartmental empathy
Induction for new starters
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hack2.2 Build interdepartmental empathy
Cross Skilling
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Sysadmin at the end of a week on call
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hack2.3 Build interdepartmental empathy
Devs on call
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Developer at the end of a week on call
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hack2.4 Build interdepartmental empathy
Doublejacking with Support
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hack2.5 Build interdepartmental empathy
Embedded engineer
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hack3
Extracurricular hacks
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hack3.1 Extracurricular hacks
Food hack.
On Premises barista?
Do you Eat lunchtogether?
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hack3.2 Extracurricular hacks
Company sports
So, how about that local sports team. Eh?
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hack3.3 Extracurricular hacks
Company band
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hack4
Hack days
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hack5
Flexible working conditions
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hack5.1 Flexible working conditions
The 9-5 job is dead. Long live flexible working conditions.
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Sysadmin on call at 9am standup
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hack6
Accommodate people’s working styles. Hack your seating.
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hack6.1 Accommodate people's working styles
The Desktop is dead. Long live the laptop.
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hack6.2 Accommodate people's working styles
The wired LAN is dead. Long live wifi.
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hack7
Open Source is a culture hack
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hack8
Career development hack
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hack9
Metrics hack
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hack10
Measure happiness
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Niko Niko Charts
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More subtle ways of measurement. Who's wearing the companyshirt?
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hack11
Celebrate success
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/3023061528/ via Allspaw :-)
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hack12
Team structure hack
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1 Infrastructure as code hack2 Build interdepartmental empathy3 Extracurricular hacks4 Hack days5 Hack your working conditions6 Accommodate different working styles7 Open Source is a culture hack8 Hack your career9 Metrics hack10 Measure happiness11 Celebrate Success12 Hack your team structure Questions? Comments? @dlutzy