Has “DevOps” jumped the shark? Some say yes; others say 2014 will be the year DevOps dons its Fonz-esque leather jacket. Whichever you believe, the marketing feeding frenzy has begun and the dilution of the “DevOps” concept to include everything (and simultaneously mean nothing) is palpable. This talk deconstructs the meta-elements of DevOps that made it resonate so strongly with so many and allowed those familiar DevOps poster children—Netflix, Etsy, and others—to deploy the methodology with such success in their businesses. We’ll go beyond DevOps’ classical CAMS (culture, automation, metrics, and sharing) definition to discover what exactly what made DevOps relevant, and what about it is so timeless and foundational that it will make whatever-follows-DevOps relevant, too.

1. “DEVOPS”
IN A
POST-
DEVOPS
WORLD
J. Paul Reed
Principal Consultant

2. J. PAUL REED
• “Sober Build Engineer”
• @SoberBuildEng
• Fifteen years as a build/release
engineer
• “DevOps consultant” for the last
few of those

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4. FonzOps?

6. “It’s about the tools!”

7. “It’s about the tools!”

8. “No, it’s about (company) culture!”

9. “No, it’s about (company) culture!”

10. “No, it’s about (company) culture!”

11. If you’re having trouble...

12. If you’re having trouble...

13. “Well, maybe it’s about...

14. “Well, maybe it’s about...
oh, who cares!”

15. “DevOps: the fastest growing segment
of the entire economy!”

16. “DevOps: the fastest growing segment
of the entire economy!”

17. Sometimes, I feel like I can’t
DevOps anymore

18. Hrrrmmmm...
Photo/Legos: Bill Ward

19. A good working definition

20. A good working definition
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/
Culture
Sharing
Metrics
Automation

21. Culture
SharingMetrics
Automation

22. d
dx
DevOps(x) = ?

24. Value Realignment
Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole
Self Awareness

25. VALUE REALIGNMENT
Tracking the fundamentals of “value”

26. VALUE REALIGNMENT

27. VALUE REALIGNMENT

28. VALUE REALIGNMENT

29. VALUE REALIGNMENT

30. INDIVIDUALITY
(Not this.)

31. INDIVIDUALITY
The Cynefin Sense-Making Framework

32. INDIVIDUALITY
The Cynefin Sense-Making Framework

33. INDIVIDUALITY
You’re doing “You’re doing it wrong” wrong

34. DON’T-BE-AN-ASSHOLE
(Pardon the language,
but it’s a technical organizational dynamics
research term now)

35. DON’T-BE-AN-ASSHOLE
(At least, according to the Stanford research)
This is not “being an Asshole”

36. DON’T-BE-AN-ASSHOLE
• Test One:After talking to the alleged asshole, does the
“target” feel oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled
by the person? In particular, does the target feel worse about
him or herself?
• Test Two: Does the alleged asshole aim his or her venom at
people who are less powerful rather than at those people who
are more powerful?

37. DON’T-BE-AN-ASSHOLE
• Warnaco insiders told the NewYorkTimes,“[The CEO’s]
personal criticism of employees, among other things, has led to
excessive staff turnover and robbed the company of talent it
needed to maintain quality operations.”
• One set of researchers tried to estimate the “TCA” of one
asshole at a company; for one year, the bill came to $160,000

38. SELF-AWARENESS

39. SELF-AWARENESS
How many engineering meetings has this ruined?

40. SELF-AWARENESS

41. Value Realignment
Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole
Self Awareness

42. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
Culture Automation MetricsSharing

43. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S

44. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S
1st
Way
Systems
Thinking
3rd
Way
Learning
Culture
2nd
Way
Amplify
Feedback Loops

45. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S 1 2 32
3 1

46. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S 1 2 32
3 1
1
Communication
2
Simplicity
3
Feedback
4
Courage
5
Respect
4
Courage
5
Respect

47. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S 1 2 32
3 1
1 2
- eXtreme Programming- DevOps
3 4
5 34

48. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S 1 2 32
3 1
1 2
- eXtreme Programming- DevOps
3 4
5 3
1
People Over
Tools/Process
2
Working
Software Over
Documentation
3
Customer
Collaboration
Over Contract
Negotiation
4
Responding to
Change Over
Following a Plan

49. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S 1 2 32
3 1
1 2
- eXtreme Programming- DevOps
3 4
3
- Agile/Scrum
2
Sc1
1 4
54 4

50. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S 1 2 32
3 1
1 2
- eXtreme Programming- DevOps
3 4
5 3
- Agile/Scrum
2
Sc1
1 4
1
Value
Streams
3
Flow
4
Pull/
Demand
System154
2
Value
Stream
Mapping

51. Value Realignment Individuality
Don’t-be-an-Asshole Self Awareness
C
A M S
C
S 1 2 32
3 1
1 2
- eXtreme Programming- DevOps
3 4
3
- Agile/Scrum
2
Sc
1 4
- Lean IT
3
3 4
1
154
2

52. d
dx
DevOps(x) =

53. d
dx
DevOps(x) =

54. d
dx
XP(x) =

55. d
dx
Agile/Scrum(x) =

56. d
dx
LeanIT(x) =

57. Has DevOps jumped the shark?

58. I
Don’t
Know

59. What’s next?

60. I
Don’t
Know

61. Value Realignment
Self Awareness/Systems Thinking
Don’t-be-an-Asshole
Individuality

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J. Paul Reed