Imagine a future in which you can more easily log, measure, and visualize work in ways that allows you to make decisions about how you improve, and choose work. Let's work together to change the culture around performance reviews by talking about the work we do, share metrics that expose the value of our work, and communicate about our work through visualizations.

1. Visualizing SELF
Jennifer Davis
@sigje

3. • Blue – Work.
• Green – Done.
• Yellow + Red – Not work.

4. Did
anyone
hear
me?

5. • Lines of code?
• Bugs closed?
http://www.axosoft.com/blog/2012/08/23/measure-agile-metrics-that-work

6. the culture around how we
work, communicate about
our work, and the work we
do.

7. • Common language to
describe our work.
• Mechanisms to measure
our work.
• Tools to visualize our work.

8. • Personal
• Job satisfaction
• Control

9. • Team
• Relationships
• Elimination of traditional
support heroics

10. • Company
• Evaluation
• Feedback

11. WHY VISUALIZATIONS?

12. #hugops
• Reversing perception of ops
– BOFH
• Language – Culture Shift

13. HUGOPSBOFH
???Top down
Performance
visualization
visualization

14. Common Language
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypic/

15. Who are you?
OPS DEV QE

16. Roles
Ops
DevQA
Along with
product
management,
legal, finance, ..

17. Work
Bugzilla Barriers

18. Who are you?
Leonard John Matthews - http://www.flickr.com/photos/
mythoto/

19. Talent
Skills
Enjoyable
Tasks

20. Talent
Skills
Enjoyable
Tasks
% of time spent on
easy skilled tasks
that we don’t enjoy..

21. Talent
Skills
Enjoyable
Tasks
Reality of knowing self
… enjoyable work.
… our skills.
… our talent.

22. Talent
Skills
Enjoyable
Tasks
Finding the work we
enjoy.

23. Work
• Work = lots of
tasks.
• Task can be
skill/level
specific.

24. Discrete measureable tasks.

25. Failing
Gracefully
puppet
ruby
SKILLS
perl
nosql
operability
security
mysql
unix
TCP/
IP
bash
CHEF

26. YOU
WORK
Company != Identity && Role != You

27. Measure
• Work
• Skills

28. Honesty

29. Start small …
COUNTS
LATENCY

30. Accounting …
How much time?
On what?
Value?

31. Close out work you aren’t
investing in.

32. Choose work.

33. Say no. Say YES And.

34. Make a goal.

35. .. “WIP” 5 tasks/week
.. “DONE” 9 tasks/WEEK.
.. 1 new job
.. Mentored 7 women speakers, 3
accepted to Grace hopper conference.
.. Switchover 8 hrs to 1 hr.
.. 3 bosses/6 months.

36. Share.

37. VISUALIZE
• Reuse
• Tools

38. Showing vs Saying

40. Team
Manager Customer

41. Tools
• Build APIs.
• Build for
interoperability.

42. White House Web API standards
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/api-standards

43. • YUI
• HTML
• Chart
• Avg, SUM function

45. • Common language to
describe our work.
• Mechanisms to measure
our work.
• Tools to visualize our work.

46. the culture around how we
work, communicate about
our work, and the work we
do.

47. I’m an Engineer.
I work at Yahoo!
I am on the Grid
Service
Engineering team.
We’re Hiring!

48. Thank you for your time and feedback!

49. QUESTIONS?
• Email: sigje@yahoo.com
• Twitter: @sigje

50. References:
• Maynard Webb – “The Worksheet” - http://maynardwebb.com/rebooting-work/the-worksheet
• Maynard Webb – “The Framework” - http://maynardwebb.com/rebooting-work/framework
• Leonard John Matthews – “Cogs” http://www.flickr.com/photos/mythoto/
• AXOSOFT – “Streetlight effect”
http://www.axosoft.com/blog/2012/08/23/measure-agile-metrics-that-work
• Joan M. Mas – “Communication” - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypic/
• Matt – “Barriers” - http://www.flickr.com/photos/drift-words/
• Kate Matsudaira – “Leveling Up – Taking your engineering and operations” -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxEmiMJVq4
• Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi – “Happiness and Productivity” -
http://ftp.iza.org/dp4645.pdf
• Rescuetime - http://www.rescuetime.com
• YUI – “Chart Module” - http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/guides/
• Mandi Walls – “Challenges To Cultural Change” -
http://www.slideshare.net/lnxchk/challenges-to-cultural-change