Transform Organizational Culture for DevOps Success
An organization’s ability to adopt a DevOps approach for software delivery often hinges on a cultural transformation that may be more difficult than technology issues. The keys to success are change supported from the top down, combined with people on the front line who are willing to experiment, fail fast, continuously learn, and openly collaborate in a blameless and fun working environment. When done right, the result is a renewed level of trust between the people involved and the organization they work for. Join Al Wagner as he shares how teams can increase the level of trust across people, process, and tools. Learn how to improve with DevOps while executing in a fun work environment. Hear about high-performing organizations who have embraced culture change as well as the impact on people in organizations who haven’t. If you are thinking about embarking on your own DevOps journey, remember—culture is key. And learning the best practices from others will help you start off right.
Al Wagner is an IBM technical evangelist with more than twenty years of practical field experience in development roles driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions around DevOps and continuous delivery. Focusing mainly on deployment automation and continuous testing, Al has practical knowledge of the IBM DevOps solution having assisted, mentored, and enabled both internal IBM and external customer teams to help solve their IT application infrastructure, development, implementation, and operations challenges. He has spoken at conferences on software quality products, principles, and techniques and authored/co-authored numerous papers and books including Continuous Release and Deployment For Dummies and Service Virtualization For Dummies.