Surviving DevOps
summary
Examines how DevOps restructures careers for testers, changers, release and infra teams and gives concrete tactics: ask whether people will produce better work in a year, use human rate of change (culture shifts take years), apply nudges like deep-ending and a SAFE-managed infra project, drop exemplars into struggling teams, measure attrition (clients report 5–40% leaving), offer graceful exits (Westpac model), welcome anger as engagement, run Phoenix simulation to surface fear, and empower staff to automate deployments (one operations engineer replaces manual handoffs with a script).
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:12Feedback from transformation
- 3:40Moving on
- 4:43Questions to get people moving
- 6:00What's in it for me
- 6:40Exemplars
- 7:15Leadership
- 8:37Nudge
- 10:50Patience
- 12:49Evolution not revolution
- 14:04On the bus
- 15:21Anger
- 16:27People blossom
- 19:01Duty of care
- 22:17Surviving DevOps
- 23:34Some questions
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