"Stop Hiring Devops Experts (And Start Growing Them)" by Jez Humble, Principal, ThoughtWorks. Presentation Overview: Everyone is putting "devops" on their LinkedIn profile, and everyone is trying to hire them. In this talk, Jez will argue this is not a recruitment problem but an organizations failure. This talk discusses how to grow great people and great organizations, and how the two problems are connected. Speaker Bio: Jez Humble is a Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He has worked as a software developer, product manager, consultant and trainer across a wide variety of domains and technologies. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices.

1. @jezhumble
puppetconf, 23 august 2013
stop hiring devops experts
(and start growing them)
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2. hiring a devop
http://gun.io/blog/how-to-hire-devops/
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3. “the game has changed”
Andrew Shafer | @littleidea | “There Is NoTalent Shortage” | http://slidesha.re/14TV4fd
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4. Michael Sahota | @MichaelSahota | http://bit.ly/13Btc5c
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5. you can’t hire in cultural change
http://www.cutestpaw.com/images/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/
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6. experimentation / improvisation
we grow systems and knowledge
20% time, pairing
how well do we cultivate knowledge?
role of management?
cultivation culture
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7. creating a “devops team”
training
buying tools
hiring people
not very effective
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8. fragile
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9. resilient
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scjody/4628723629/
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10. antifragile
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11. antifragile
"We acquire the strength we have overcome."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
“From life's school of war: what does not kill me
makes me stronger.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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12. game days
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13. simian army
http://diannemarsh.com
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14. establish a sense of urgency
"a majority of employees, perhaps 75
percent of management overall, and
virtually all of the top executives need
to believe that considerable change is
absolutely essential”
John P. Kotter, Leading Change, p51
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15. what does devops mean?
“when confronted with the question, ‘Are you a
DevOps?’ I answered the only way I knew how.
Someone was asking me not whether I was qualified
to fill a role, but whether I believed in a movement.
Whether flow was of the utmost importance.
Whether communication was more important than
silos. ‘Of course not, are you an Agile?’”
Dave Mangot | @davemangot | http://bit.ly/16YHqu3
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16. resources
DLOQ: http://www.partnersforlearning.com/questions2.asp
Sahota, An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide http://www.infoq.com/
minibooks/agile-adoption-transformation
Game Days: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371297
Google DiRT: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516
Netflix culture: http://slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
BOOKS
Schneider, The Reengineering Alternative
Kotter, Leading Change
Taleb, Antifragile
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17. questions
@jezhumble | jez@thoughtworks.com
http://continuousdelivery.com/
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