This document discusses DevOps practices in a serverless world. It argues that DevOps is about humans, not technology, and focuses on creating high-performance organizations through practices like continuous delivery, embracing failure, and creating a culture of collaboration, automation, and measurement. The document presents DevOps concepts like lean production, just-in-time processes, and stopping production to fix problems as ways to achieve the goals of high quality, low cost, and short lead times. Data is presented showing organizations with strong DevOps practices see benefits like 30x more deployments, 60x higher success rates, and increased market performance. Creating generative organizations that can have speed, resilience and quality is framed as "the possible" that DevOps

1. “The Art of the Possible”
( Devops in a Serverless World )

2. It’s Not About the Technology Stupid!

3. https://github.com/botchagalupe/my-presentations

6. Devops is about Humans
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Devops is a set of practices and
patterns that turn human
capital into high performance
organizational capital.

7. Devops is Lean!

11. •Defect free delivered one request at a time (a batch
size of one);
•On demand and delivered immediately;
•Produced without waste; and
•Produced in a work environment that is safe
physically, emotionally, and professionally for every
employee.
Toyota’s True North

12. Toyota is not a story about
techniques. It’s an organization
defined primarily by the unique
behavior routines it continually
teaches to all it’s members.
Mike Rother (Page 262-263)

13. DevOps as Supply Chain?
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Source: Wikipedia - Continuous Delivery

14. •Highest Quality
• Devops - Shift Left
•Lowest Cost
• Cloud, Open Source, Serverless
•Shortest Lead Time
• Flow, Continious Delivery
The Possible - Common Goals

15. •Continious Flow
• Small Batch
• Takt Time
• Value Stream Mapping
•Pull System
• Kanban
The Possible - Just-in-Time

16. •Stop the Line
• Break the Build
• Autonomation
• Blamelessness
•Poka-Yoke
• Chaos Engineering
The Possible - Embrace Failure

17. Culture
Automation
Measurement
Sharing Continuous
Improvement
Learning
DeliveryCollaboration
CAMS - Cybernetic Feedback Loop

18. 30x 200x
more frequent
deployments
faster lead
times
60x 168x
the change
success rate
faster mean time to
recover (MTTR)
2x 50%
more likely to
exceed profitability,
market share &
productivity goals
higher market
capitalization growth
over 3 years*
High performers compared to their peers…
Data from 2014/2015 State of DevOps Report - https://puppetlabs.com/2015-devops-report
Recent IT Performance Data is Compelling

19. Fast
CheapGood
“Pick Two!”
Impossible to have all three!

20. Generative Behavior
ResilienceSpeed
“Must Have All
Three!”
The Possible

21. True North

23. Veresh Sita, Alaska Airlines - ChefConf 2016 Keynote

24. CVE-2017-5638

26. The consequences of failure have never been greater…

27. The Possible - Heijunka
• The Three Ways
•The First Way
•The Second Way
•The Third Way

28. The Really Really Hard Stuff
• Increase Headcount
• Increase Salaries
• Error Budgeting
• Psychological Safety

32. Summary

33. John WIllis
@botchagalupe
botchagalupe@gmail.com