Company Culture hacking for competitive
advantage David Lutz @dlutzy

Competitive advantage? There’s more to
company culture than...

hack1
Infrastructure as code

"Infrastructure as code" is pretty
clear. Treat your infrastructure as code. Programmable. Testable. Deployable. - lusis Remove all that error-prone, hand-crafted, manual, boring old-school sysadmin stuff! - me

Infrastructure as code: ● Aligns
Dev and Ops processes ● Builds transparency and trust ● Brings Dev and Ops closer together Pull request for a firewall change anyone?

hack2
Build
interdepartmental
empathy

So you want root access
on production eh?

hack2.1 Build interdepartmental empathy Induction
for new starters

hack2.2 Build interdepartmental empathy Cross
Skilling

Sysadmin at the end of
a week on call

hack2.3 Build interdepartmental empathy Devs
on call

Developer at the end of
a week on call

hack2.4 Build interdepartmental empathy Doublejacking
with Support

hack2.5 Build interdepartmental empathy Embedded
engineer

hack3
Extracurricular hacks

hack3.1 Extracurricular hacks Food hack.
On Premises barista? Do you Eat lunch together?

hack3.2 Extracurricular hacks Company sports
So, how about that local sports team. Eh?

hack3.3 Extracurricular hacks
Company band

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Hack days

hack5
Flexible working
conditions

hack5.1 Flexible working conditions The
9-5 job is dead. Long live flexible working conditions.

Sysadmin on call at 9am
standup

hack6 Accommodate people’s working styles.
Hack your seating.

hack6.1 Accommodate people's working styles
The Desktop is dead. Long live the laptop.

hack6.2 Accommodate people's working styles
The wired LAN is dead. Long live wifi.

hack7 Open Source is a
culture hack

hack8
Career development hack

hack9
Metrics hack

hack10
Measure happiness

Niko Niko Charts

More subtle ways of measurement.
Who's wearing the company shirt?

hack11 Celebrate success http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/3023061528/ via
Allspaw :-)

hack12
Team structure hack

1 Infrastructure as code hack
2 Build interdepartmental empathy 3 Extracurricular hacks 4 Hack days 5 Hack your working conditions 6 Accommodate different working styles 7 Open Source is a culture hack 8 Hack your career 9 Metrics hack 10 Measure happiness 11 Celebrate Success 12 Hack your team structure Questions? Comments? @dlutzy