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Chop Wood, Carry Water
Andrew Clay Shafer discusses the transformative role of software in enhancing human performance and the importance of building a learning organization in a DevOps context. He emphasizes the necessity of organizational learning and a socio-technical approach to solve challenges in the software industry. The document concludes with a call to action to question norms, prioritize understanding the underlying reasons, and engage actively in the learning process.
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- 1. chop wood, carrywater Andrew Clay Shafer @littleidea
- 2. hold my beer,a devops story Andrew Clay Shafer @littleidea
- 4. Agenda • Introduction • Influences •Assertions • Meandering • Bikeshedding • Conflate Things • More Meandering • Call to Action
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- 9. @littleidea’s greatest hits leading alearning organization not all devops luminaries
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- 11. We are livingin a world where more and more of the world becomes constantly connected to the totality of human knowledge. We face the insurmountable opportunity that every aspect of human performance and experience that can be transformed by software, will be. What are the challenges? What are the risks? What are we going do to about it?
- 12. We face theinsurmountable opportunity that every aspect of human performance and experience that can be transformed by software, will be.
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- 15. you have tobe serious
- 16. you can’t beso irreverent
- 17. do you haveto be so serious?
- 18. you are azealot
- 19. tl;dr you are buildinga software company or losing to someone who is
- 20. you are continuouslydelivering microservices or losing to someone who is
- 21. you are buildinga learning organization or losing to someone who is
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- 28. Principles > Practices>Tools
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- 31. Success and Failureis highly correlated with the degree of ‘Organizational Learning’
- 32. 7 Dimensions ofOrganizational Learning • continuous learning • inquiry and dialog • team learning • empowerment • embedded system • system connection • strategic leadership
- 33. The learning organizationis one that has the capacity to integrate people and structures in order to move toward continuous learning and change.
- 35. ASK ME ABOUT PARETOINEFFICIENT NASH EQUILIBRIA
- 36. I really wishwe could have good conversations about this.
- 42. I don’t havetime to learn new things because I’m too busy getting things done!” - least productive person in the world
- 44. If I hadan hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions. — Albert Einstein
- 45. Do not seekto follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
- 46. don’t seek devops,continuous delivery, containers, microservices… Seek Awesome
- 47. The problem isn’ttechnical. The problem isn’t people. The problem is socio-technical. We have to solve both together.
- 48. we are allpart of the system
- 49. Call to Action •Question everything • Don’t limit yourself with labels (devops or otherwise) • Find the Why, What will follow • Get mud on your hands • Play to win • Know you can
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- 52. @littleidea I’m not hereto answer questions. I’m here to have conversations.