Harold “Waldo” Grunenwald hears it all the time—DevOps doesn't work. Sometimes it's from people whose “DevOps transformation” consisted of a team rename or from operations people who scoff at the idea of letting development teams deploy to production frequently. Waldo demonstrates why placing the blame on DevOps practices and tooling is missing the point. He offers practical solutions to the problems of historically poor relations between operations and development teams, describes why delegating authority is the path to freedom, and shows why cross-functional product teams are the way to...Learn More
Harold “Waldo” Grunenwald
Independent Consultant
Harold “Waldo” Grunenwald is a geek, and if you find him a bit odd, there are plenty of things on which to place blame. He's a long-time systems engineer, enjoys leading teams, and is active in the DevOps community. Waldo may or may not be Batman as no one has ever seen them in the same place at the same time. He is pretty keen on insight tooling—trending/monitoring/alerting—and automation in general. Waldo actually enjoys public speaking, hates writing about himself in the third person, and aspires to one day be a better bio writer.