devops days tel aviv 2013: how not to do devops: confessions of a thought leader - stephen nelson...
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How NOT to do Devops....
Confessions of a “thought leader”
Tuesday, 1 October 13
How NOT to do Devops....
Confessions of a “thought leader”
Tuesday, 1 October 13
Your quest is to find the Warlock's treasure, hidden deep within a dungeon populated with a multitude of
terrifying monsters. You will need courage, determination and a fair amount of luck if you are to survive all the traps and battles, and reach your goal — the innermost chambers of the Warlock's domain.
Two dice, a pencil and an eraser are all you need to make your journey. YOU decide which route to
follow, which dangers to risk and which monsters to fight.
Tuesday, 1 October 13
Your quest is to find the Warlock's treasure, hidden deep within a dungeon populated with a multitude of
terrifying monsters. You will need courage, determination and a fair amount of luck if you are to survive all the traps and battles, and reach your goal — the innermost chambers of the Warlock's domain.
Two dice, a pencil and an eraser are all you need to make your journey. YOU decide which route to
follow, which dangers to risk and which monsters to fight.
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Tuesday, 1 October 13
STEPHEN NELSON-SMITH
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SysadminWriter
Automated Infrastructure ExpertBuddhist
Yogi
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ABANDON THE PATH TO QUALITY
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Quality
Meeting or exceeding the expectations of the consumer or customer.
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“Many so-called Agile adoptions, being merely the thinnest of veneers, rather
than a change of any substance, can lead to a situation where formal controls - i.e.
the conventional path to quality - is abandoned without the adoption of any
viable alternative path to quality.”
Bob Marshall
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“Untested and unreviewed infrastructrure code is akin to running the nation’s railways on untested and
incompatible track, points and signals.”
Stephen Nelson-Smith
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ANTIDOTE
Intrinsic motivationMastery
Non-violenceAutonomy
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“What is at the heart of the transformation? It's the release of…
intrinsic motivation…By creating…happiness in work…pride in learning”
W. Edwards Deming
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“Mastery resists definition yet can be instantly recognized. It comes in many varieties, yet follows certain unchanging laws. It brings rich rewards, yet
it is not really a goal but rather a journey.”Tuesday, 1 October 13
Instruction - find the right guide to take you on your journey
Practice -the joy of learning and improving through repetition
Surrender to Your Passion - love it or leave it
Intentionality - visualize the outcome
Go to the Edge - go a little bit further than we’ve gone before and maybe even further than anyone
else has gone
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“If you want people to do a good job, give them a good job to do.”
Frederick Herzberg
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"The greatest reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do more work."
Dr. Jonas Salk
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Get what really matters without using guilt, humiliation, shame, blame, coercion, or threats.
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1. Observation2. Feeling3. Needs
4. Request
EMPATHY
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Henrick Knikberg, Culture > Process, Paris Scrum Gathering, 2013
Frederick HerzbergTuesday, 1 October 13
Practically:
PairTDD / BDDPeer review
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THERE’S NO VALUE ON THE RIGHT
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We have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
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Manifesto for Devops Ineptitude
We are uncovering better ways of misunderstanding and misusing “agile” principles by doing it wrong and helping others do it wrong.
Through this work we have come to conclude that we should have:
Manadatory devops tools to enforce individuals and interactions.Infrastructure as code, with little or no documentation.Naive trust supported by hand-wavey verbal agreements.No plan at all, because we’re “lean” and “agile” hipsters.
That is, while there is wisdom in the Agile Manifesto, we failed to understand its essence and implemented a botched mockery in its place.
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ANTIDOTE:
BDD / TDDDocument why not how
Real optionsDeliberate discovery
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IGNORE THE SIGNS OF BURNOUT
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Karōshi (過労死)
Death by overwork
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Extreme long hours that interfere with normal rest patterns
Night work that interferes with normal rest patterns
Working without holidays or breaks
High pressure work without breaks
Extremely demanding physical labor and continuously stressful work
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Are you creating artificial relaxation and alertness?
Alcohol / Marijuana / SedativesCaffeine / Cocaine / Amphetamines
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ANTIDOTE:
“Don't Do Anything That Isn't Play!”
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Watch out for signs of violence:
GuiltDuty
ShameFear
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DisconnectSleep well (and enough)
Eat (often and healthily)Pray / Meditate
ExercisePlay
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“It is a very good plan every now and then to go away and have a little
relaxation… When you come back to the work your judgement will be surer, since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose the power of judgement.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
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FOCUS ON THE TOOLS
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“Creating the label `lean` (what it is) leads naturally to the notion of tools
(how you do it), obscuring the importance of perspective (how to think about it)”
John Seddon
s/lean/devops/
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“If the object of a change is to change the system, tools can, at best, be only an
aid.”
John Seddon
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“before we jump to the conclusion that the tools will work ... we had best first
study the systems.”
John Seddon
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Fuck tools!We need culture!
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£$%& tools!We need culture!
WRONG!
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“Culture alone is hollow posturing, tooling alone is fiddling in the dark.”
Adam Jacob
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“Right behind `culture ! tools` is `great, any choices I make are good choices -
tools don’t matter`”
Adam Jacob
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“The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.”
Edsger Dijkstra
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“In a broken culture, with a desire to change, the tooling can often lead the
way to cultural changes.”
Adam Jacob
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ANTIDOTE:
“Teach perspective - how to think - if the tools help, people will beat a path to the
cupboard door”
John Seddon
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GROW your tools
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GOAL - what are we trying to achieve?REALITY - where are we now?
OPTIONS - what could we do to bridge the gap?WILL - what will we do?
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Start where you’re at!
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Beware the argument from authority
(because I said so)
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ALWAYS SAY YES
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“People who can’t say no spend their very limited time and already taxed energy on other people’s priorities, while their own
priorities fall to the wayside.”
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“If you think it looks like it’s going to be slow and expensive, it probably will be
slow and expensive, and someone has to pay. If you're not transparent about
that, the chances are you'll pay yourself, with lost profit, lost reputation, or lost
health. In my case: all three.”
Stephen Nelson-Smith
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ANTIDOTE:
Practice saying no!
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9 Practices to help you say “No”(Peter Bregman, Harvard Business Review)
1. Know your no2. Be appreciative
3. Say no to the request, not the person4. Explain why
5. Be as resolute as they are pushy6. Practice
7. Establish a pre-emptive no8. Be prepared to miss out
9. Gather your courageTuesday, 1 October 13
A trusted advisor walks away from money if there is no mutual benefit.
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BUILD A DEVOPS TEAM
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“The Devops movement addresses the dysfunction that results from
organizations composed of functional silos. Thus, creating another functional
silo that sits between dev and ops is clearly a poor (and ironic) way to try and
solve these problems.”
Jez Humble
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“Functional silos allow people to ignore, or at least feel disconnected from, the
consequences of their actions.
Devops is a cultural change that encourages, exposes and rewards people taking responsibility for what they do
and what is expected of them.”
Ben KepesTuesday, 1 October 13
ANTIDOTE:
Create and collaborate
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Cross functionalise
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Get on the improvement ARC
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AWARENESS (comprehend where we are right now)
RESPONSIBILITY(agree that we are the ones to make change)
COMMITMENT(decide to take action)
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Take baby steps....
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Take baby steps....
WRONG!
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“Continuous improvement isn't nearly as important as discontinuous improvement.”
Russell Ackoff
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If you lack executive sponsorship, forcing Devops will accelerate your own demise at best and your organisation’s
demise at worst.
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“If you agree with me and your CEO doesn’t understand and you dont want to wait around to convince him: fucking quit because everyone is this room is hiring
and they do.”
Adam Jacob
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FIX ALL THE THINGS
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"We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the
wrong solution to the right problem."
Russell Ackoff
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"We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the
wrong solution to the right problem."
Russell Ackoff
Tuesday, 1 October 13
"We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the
wrong solution to the right problem."
Russell Ackoff
Tuesday, 1 October 13
“We chase the latest ideas in software development without bothering with the scientific method.
We think it is a waste of time to understand the theory, create hypotheses, run experiments, gather data, and find out what really
works in our environment.
We fail to appreciate that “best practices” are somebody else’s solutions to their problems, not necessarily the right solutions to our
problems.
We adopt new development approaches with an unhealthy dose of wishful thinking, rather than determining the most appropriate
practices for our environment —
and then we are surprised at the disappointing results.”
Tom & Mary Poppendieck, Leading Lean Software Development
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ANTIDOTE:
Beware shiny thingsAbandon technical purity
Exercise real options
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ANTIDOTE:
Beware shiny thingsAbandon technical purity
Exercise real options
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BE AFRAID OF BAD NEWS
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"Studying the organization as a system will certainly reveal bad news."
John Seddon
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“Fear takes a terrible toll. Where are the comptroller's figures on the losses from fear? They are enormous. Nobody
knows their magnitude. Getting people to express their ideas without fear of retribution requires fundamental
change."
W. Edwards Deming
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ANTIDOTE:
No fear
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“Lean downhill when skiing. That takes a certain amount of fearlessness, courage,
or aggressiveness. It turns out that leaning downhill gives you more control
than leaning back uphill. It is connected with `always try to keep going forward`”
Alistair Cockburn
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear(From Frank Herbert's Dune Book Series)
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Thank you.
#devopsdays TLV <3 @LordCope
Ask your questions... I am not afraid.Tuesday, 1 October 13