The Ops Dojo presentation tells the story of an initiative we've been running at realestate.com.au for the last year to improve Ops capabilities and facilitate sharing knowledge. Was presented in the Melbourne Devops Meetup on 18th of November. I've also written a blog article about it that you can find in: http://techblog.realestate.com.au/the-ops-dojo/ Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Management and managerial skills training manual.pdf
The Ops dojo
1. The Ops DTojohe Ops Dojo
Javier Turegano
@setoide
Melbourne Devops
2. Shaping your business
LoB
“A”
LoB
“B”
LoB
“C”
Global Infrastructure
International
“D”
International
“E”
3. Team 1 – Midsize initiative X
IM
BA
UX
TechL Dev
Dev Dev
QA Ops
Team 2 – Small Initiative Y
BA Dev Dev
Team 3 – Big Initiative G
BA
TechL Dev
Dev Dev
QA Ops
IM
Dev Dev Dev
QA
UX
LoB “A”
Team 4 – Midsize initiative Z
IM
Dev Dev Dev
QA
Team 5 – Delivery Engineering/BAU
Ops Ops
Dev QA
Ops
Lead
Tech Lead
IM
BA
UX
TechL
Dev
QA
Ops
Iteration Manager
Business Analyst
User Experience
Tech lead
Developer
Quality Assurance
Operations
13. OS - Linux
Automation
Config Management
Metrics/Monitoring/Alerting
Databases
Security
Infrastructure
Cloud
REA - Infrastructure
Incident
Management
Web Performance
Networking
WEB OPS
25. I am hiring! As everybody else...
Feedback appreciated:
http://gia.careers.realestate.com.au
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nyuhuhuu
Dojo: The Definitive Guide
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51st All Japan Aikido Demonstration
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Notas do Editor
I am Javier, bla, bla...
This lightning talk is about an initiative called the Ops Dojo I've been running for the last year at REA Group.
Two parts:
- Short introduction of how Operations work has changed in the last years in some organization and the challenges it brings.
- What's the Ops Dojo about.
2 challenges so far:
- We need to increase our Ops capability across the organisation
- We need to minimise the walls of the new Silos.
What are guilds?
- Communities of interest around different topics
- Opt in model
- They are horizontal
What is the ops dojo?
1 year
Iterate of each one of the words of this statement to understand what the ops dojo is.
Run by a community of volunteers interested in the topic
People volunteer to run sessions as Senseis
Let me introduce ADO, one of the coolest devs in REA volunteering to run a Perl 101 session.
The sharing culture in REA is amazing
Lots of sharing events were already happening, for example brownbags
The idea behind running the Dojo is to try to make it happen even more frequently
Practical, hands on sessions, help you get started with new technology/topics
Much better retention than presentations.
Sometimes it's only about knowing what is happening in other areas or what cool things people has discovered in meetups/blogs, etc...
Web Ops skills
What kind of sessions have we run so far:
Dojo sessions: one or two senseis lead a trainning session about a topic.
Kata sessions: One or in many cases a lot of people volunteer to lead short exercises about a topic
Answer questions with data.
OBJECTIVES:
Get people with access to the tools.
Get people interested in the topics.
Get people to work with people that they don't work with all the time.
Similar to treasure hunts.
We had a lot of fun finding out which tools will help you troubleshoot this areas of Linux.
Lots of people mentioned that after the session they continued investigating about the topic.
Structure round table with a fixed format:
- Topics are proposed by all attendants.
- We vote for the once we are interested
- From the ones that got the most votes we discussed for 5-10 minutes.
- At the end of that period we vote if we decide if we want to continue talking about it.
- We run out of time.
Sometimes someone takes the time to capture the conversation in a mindmap or blog post.
We also tried to record some sessions and made them available to the rest of the company.
Could be interesting to explore broadcasting them live.
In the last Dojo session we trailed a multi-location Dojo session:
We were moving offices
Locations:
678 Victoria Street
511 Church Street
Xian
Cisco VC let us down and we ended up doing Skype.
What really worked is to have a Sensei ready in each office to run the session.
51st All Japan Aikido Demonstration
By L'oeil étranger
https://www.flickr.com/photos/97695303@N02/10460162733/
Dojo: The Definitive Guide