Dancing is a wonderful activity, that can be done alone, in couple or in large groups. To be efficient (or to avoid chaos), learning to dance helps, as well as caring for others and following rules. A lot like teamwork actually. This ignite will unravel this dancing analogy to teamworking in IT, and hightlight how devops is just a part of successful strategies applied in other domains to reach top level.

1. Normation – CC-BY-SA
normation.com
Working together -
a Dance analogy
Nicolas CHARLES – nch@normation.com
@nico_charles on Twitter

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Who am I?
Nicolas CHARLES
Origins: Developer
Work at
Creator of and ncf.io
And I love to dance !
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Come and say hi :)

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The Black Keys – Lonely BoyThe Black Keys – Lonely Boy
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Dancing at home – complete freedom

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Saturday Night FeverSaturday Night Fever
You can be even an expert ...

5. Normation – CC-BY-SA
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...but you need to learn to dance together
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A common tune
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Culture, empathy and specialization (dev and ops)
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Understanding colleagues point of view
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It can get chaotic when the team grows ...

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But order can be obtained with a Project Leader

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Comparing a salsa event with a big project
http://www.salsapass.com/uploads/event/original/d303767d761272b217cb8157c6c45c9fe03f8b42.jpg

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A line-up: the project features

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Key roles in the project
Quality assuranceQuality assurance
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content/uploads/2014/07/bouncer.pngcontent/uploads/2014/07/bouncer.png
Scrum MasterScrum Master
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s#/media/File:Marcis_dzelainis.jpgs#/media/File:Marcis_dzelainis.jpg
FinanceFinance
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Marketing and communication
http://www.balajo.fr/soirees.phphttp://www.balajo.fr/soirees.php
http://a.dilcdn.com/bl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/01/Elsa-Frozen.jpg

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Adequate infrastructure and tooling
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Everyone has different needs and
approach on the projet
Reporting and management of the event
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chive/01689/scrooge-mcduck_1689911i.jpg
http://comps.canstockphoto.com/can-stock-photo_csp6854217.jpg

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Playlist, number of entrance, program are
all different aspect of the same topic
Different aspects of the same project
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Mettre SAP ici ?
ERP to manage, with different views
http://consultingsolution.net/apo_2.gifhttp://consultingsolution.net/apo_2.gif

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Rudder – different uses for different profiles
Management
Define
policy
Changes
(fixes, upgrades...)
c c
Community Expert
Sysadmins
Configure
parameters
Configuration agent
Initial application
Continuous verification
REPORTING
Technical abstraction
(method vs parameters)

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The concept of dev+ops is limitating
There are plenty of other roles that should be included
http://www.retifweb.net/_pagesretifweb/10123/imgsgenerales/plateauvueduciel01.jpg
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