Presented by Chef CEO, Barry Crist at the DevOps Leadership Summit preceding ChefConf 2016 in Austin, TX

1. The new IT game
Barry Crist
CEO, Chef

2. About Chef
• At the forefront of Agile, Lean and DevOps movements
• Open Source foundation
• 250 Employees. Offices in Seattle, San Francisco, London, Berlin
>900
customers
1.7M
monthly
Chef Client
Downloads
>3,000
Habitat
Downloads
(4 weeks)
>90%
Revenue
Growth (YOY)
>25,000
organizations
use Chef

3. The most enduring and transformative companies
use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative
software driven organizations

4. 70% of the Fortune 500
technology sector

5. Goldman Sachs IT Spending Survey 2016
1. BMC
2. Splunk
3. IBM
4. HP
5. New Relic
6. AWS
7. Servicenow
8. CA
9. Microsoft
10. Chef
11. Solarwinds
12. Atlassian
With which vendor do you think you will be
spending the most on IT tools in three
years?

6. We Want to be the Foundation of Your
Modern Software Factory
Infrastructure
Automation
Application
Automation
Compliance
Automation

7. Two Chefs
Tactical Chef Strategic Chef

8. Our view

9. Digital disruption is happening everywhere.
Every company will be challenged.

10. The Game

11. idea ship
Ship ideas

12. competitiveness
velocity
(software delivery)
innovation

13. Drive business outcomes (win).
Disrupt or be disrupted.

14. Problem:
Most enterprises aren’t very good at
shipping software.

15. Low Innovation
Low Scale
Low Speed
Low Customer Value
High Innovation
High Scale
High Speed
High Customer Value
Operating
Chasm
Operating Chasm

16. Operating
Chasm
Low Innovation
Low Scale
Low Speed
Low Customer Value
High Innovation
High Scale
High Speed
High Customer Value
“The dip”
Operating Chasm

17. D I P
Skip the Dip

18. No high velocity company
has gotten there without
automation as a foundation
idea ship
Getting automation right matters

19. ALDO AUTOMATION
APPS
INFRA
OLD
OLD
NEW
NEW

20. Gantt chart of death
• spark plug projects (ALDO)
• cross-functional teams
• skill-building
• coaching & support
• internal community building
• the big flashlight,
cheerleading and internal
marketing
vs.

21. The Org Chart

22. Self-reliance

23. One vs. Hundreds

24. One vs. Hundreds

25. Compliance

26. Thank you!