Lean Agile Limerick (LAL) Meetup, 2 August 2018 Some provoking thoughts why it can be good to always automate

1. Automate? Always!
Giulio Vian
giuliovdev@hotmail.com
@giulio_vian
http://blog.casavian.eu/

2. Talk structure
Common
thinking
Provoking
thoughts
Discussion

3. Bio in pictures
3
giulio.dev@casavian.eu
@giulio_vian
http://blog.casavian.eu/
https://tfsaggregator.github.io
Hardware spec:
1KB RAM (upg. 16KB)
4KB ROM

4. Thursday 18th @ Workbench
What did I learn trying to migrate
teams from legacy to modern
Matteo Emili
@limerickdotnet
https:// www.meetup.com/Limerick-DotNet
https://www.papercall.io/ldna

5. Context

6. Common thinking
“our goal should be to automate
all the activities that are repeated
while creating and maintaining
the system”
Priti Biyani, ThoughtWorks
emphasis mine

7. https://xkcd.com/1205/

8. Why?
To save time
To gain consistency
To gain speed, momentum and velocity
To schedule tasks
To reduce boring or less fun tasks
To keep sysadmins and developers happy
Mattias Geniar

9. And also
To reduce errors
To reduce costs
To improve quality
To achieve more

10. https://xkcd.com/1319/

12. Exploring

13. Improvement

14. Ripple Effect

15. Satisfaction

16. Learning

17. Validate

18. Track

19. “Automate
ALL the things”
— Chris Jones et al.

20. that is…

21. References
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/when
-to-automate-and-why
https://ma.ttias.be/why-do-we-automate/
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/funct
ional-tests-how-decide-what-automate
Niall Murphy et al., Site Reliability Engineering,
O′Reilly 2016
or https://landing.google.com/sre/book/index.html

22. Discussion
Exploring Improvement Ripple Effect Satisfaction
Learning Validate Track