Las Vegas 2022

Lightning Talk: Talk DevOps to me!

Fun, thought-provoking, emotionally resonating talks presented by members of the DevOps community.


Hosted by Topo Pal and Jason Cox.


Presented by Sleuth

JW

Joanna Wyganowska

Director of Product Marketing, Octopus Deploy

Transcript

00:00:00

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00:00:09

Hello. So you are here to learn from kindergartners. I can assure you I have a vast expertise in this area. How many of you can claim that you went through this experience once having a kindergarten? How? How about twice. How about three times? No one. Okay, it looks no one can beat me. I went through kindergarten four times with my kids. So here's what we can learn from them. So the first step is be open-minded. Do you remember going with your kids to the playground And the first time they see other kids playing, they just jump right into the game and say, hi friend. So have the same type of attitude when you work with your other teams in your company. So turn to the left, turn to the light and say Hi friend.

00:01:13

Perfect.

00:01:15

And be open to diversity. Okay, so remember people are coming with different experience to DevOps. They have different perception of the speed of deployments or steps it takes to deploy software. For example, my son was certain that I weight 400 pounds <laugh>. Alright? We are very lucky that we have different tools at our disposal. So as the old saying says, work smarter not harder. Take advantage of the tools that you have and a small plug for our company. Use deployment tools from Octopus deploy. Tip number four. One of the benefit of deploying faster is that you'll have customer feedback much faster so you can improve your product. So learn from it. So next time you are releasing the product, it's in much better condition than this one. You can see yes, maybe he's up to something with skipping the vowels. Alright, are you familiar with this? That's a report card and it's designed to help you evaluate how you are doing and if there are any,

00:02:43

Uh, room, if there is a room for improvement. So we are lucky that we have Dora metrics that you can apply. And as you can see, my daughter, although she excel at all the academics, she still have a room for improvements. She needs to work, she needs to learn how to work quietly. <laugh>. Alright, making DevOps work comes with its challenges. The times where we were working Monday to Friday, eight to fives are over. We're being asked to carry a pager and being available to jump into, uh, bridge conferences right away. And sometimes it means in the middle of your kids' basketball games or have you tried it while you have to breastfeed your baby. So yes, so remember this is, uh, the plan that our kids have. So there is always a time to work hard to fulfill your work obligations, but there is also time to have fun. So yes, there needs to be time to sweep the stairs and there needs to time to play pinging pong. And that's a shortlist of my son for <laugh>. Okay, hopefully you never got this yellow sheep. It's below the line notification.

00:04:11

Ah, yes, my son was hiding in the closet instead of going to the bathroom. Well, but the same. They're asked to do a fix it plan to write a fix it plan and sign it. And I had to sign it as well as a parent. So anytime you are getting a customer escalation, customer incident, make it your responsibility to come up with a fix it plan and commit to it. Step number seven. As we spend most of our time at work, it is your job to make sure that your team is happy. And sometimes it does mean removing toxic people. So at the end of the day, your team can say, I feel happy. Step number nine, as we move to continuous deployment, it is much harder to have big celebrations. We no longer deploy once a year, and we do it with big party and big fun forests. So you have to rethink it, you have to reframe it. The reasons to celebrate.