KEYNOTE: Settlers of DevOps...
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Argues that Simon Wardley’s pioneers settlers town planners model lets large orgs achieve velocity by a theft based pull model rather than mandates, showing a concrete rollout: a small pioneer group builds a continuous delivery pipeline, it fails when pushed but succeeds when a different team adopts it into production, then a town-planner group industrializes a commodity platform. Mentions tool variety — GoCD Bamboo Jenkins — and reports broad CD adoption despite tool proliferation.
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- 0:00Intro
- 1:15I want to deliver customer value faster and more humanely.
- 5:11Bi-Modal is an overly simplistic way to organize.
- 5:36An acknowledgement that innovation and change is required throughout the org.
- 5:48A system that takes into account transition states and feedback loops.
- 6:06Enter Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners.
- 10:03Traits of Town Planners Focus on what is common and well defined Industrialize, scale Operational efficiency Build the services Pioneers rely on for future experimentation Metric driven
- 11:41Town Planners are all roles requiring excellent people.
- 12:17Town Planners can (and should) exist within a team.
- 13:04Take care to foster the feedback loops and maintain the pull nature.
- 13:34Continuous Delivery Adoption
- 19:18Anti-Patterns
- 20:46Using Enterprise Architecture to prevent waste and force adoption.
- 21:48Relying on Innovation Labs or Centers of Excellence for your pioneers.
- 23:34Forgetting your organization requires a systems thinking approach.
- 24:49Create flows, not barriers or mandates.
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