My 2011 Velocity Presentation: "Creating the Dev/Test/PM/Ops Supertribe: From Visible Ops To DevOps"

I spent two awesome days at the amazing 2011 Velocity Conference.  The presentations were fantastic, the practitioners in attendance had amazing kung fu, andI had a chance to reconnect with some of my favorite people in the industry.  Not to mention making new friends.

I can't say enough good things about this conference.  If you want to know what the bleeding edge of Web Operations and Development execution look like, this is a conference you can't afford not to be at.  Whether you're Ops, Dev or Infosec.

I had the privilege of presenting on Wednesday.  The talk title was "Creating the Dev/Test/PM/Ops Supertribe: From Visible Ops To DevOps." It summarized some of my key learnings since co-authoring the Visible Ops Handbook and studying high performing IT operations organization, and why I'm so excited about the DevOps movement.

Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins), John Willis (@botchagalupe) and Patrick DeBois (@patrickdebois) convinced me to talk about some of the projects I'm working now, which I describe in the presentation, as well.

Slideshare is below, followed by the talk abstract.

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Abstract below:

I’m going to share my top lessons of how great IT organizations simultaneously deliver stellar service levels and fast flow of new features into production. It requires creating a “super-tribe”, where development, test, IT operations and information security genuinely work together to solve business objectives as opposed to throwing each under the bus.

I will describe what successful transformations look like, and how they were achieved from a Dev and Ops perspective. It will draw upon my 11 year study of high performing IT organizations, as well as work I¹ve done since 2008 to help some of that largest Internet companies increase feature flow and production stability.

Lastly, I will share materials from two book projects I am currently working on: “When IT Fails: The Novel” and a prescriptive DevOps guide. I am seeking fellow travelers who want to capture and codify the best known methods, recipes and case studies of how to implement successful DevOps-style transformations.