Make It Stick: DevOps culture and systems science
A presentation at DevOpsDays Raleigh 2024 in in Raleigh, NC, USA by Laura Santamaria
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays DevOps culture and systems science Laura Santamaria Lead Developer Advocate Dell Technologies
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays How do you make this transformation stick ???
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Physics Example
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Unstable
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Stable
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays People, Infrastructure, Software People, Infrastructure, Software People, Infrastructure, Software
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Two Cases
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays A stable people system
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays An unstable people system
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays One person doing the glue work
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays A stable infrastructure system
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays An unstable infrastructure system
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays No one knows how the general concepts of infrastructure work.
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays A stable software system
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays An unstable software system
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Too many shiny new software tools to choose from
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays How do I identify stable equilibrium?
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays How do I minimize perturbations?
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays What about SRE ? What about Platform Engineering ?
@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Find Your Equilibrium
How do you make cultural transformations and paradigm shifts—whether it’s a DevOps culture, an SRE mindset, or a platform engineering paradigm—stick in your organization? No matter whether the organization is large or small, the hardest part of any cultural change is making it permanent no matter who joins or leaves the organization. Join me to delve into systems and science to find the best way to help organizations make big changes. We’ll review
- How a handful of large and small companies have succeeded or failed at sticking the cultural change landing
- Why we can apply the same discoveries from DevOps transformations to building SRE or platform engineering practices
- What systems science and equilibrium states have to do with cultural shifts
- How to minimize perturbations in the overall organizational system during a cultural shift All in 5 minutes or less!
