Julia Wester
where else to find them
mastodon:@juliawester@mastodon.social
what they talk about
all 7 in the filters
where they keep going back
- DevOpsCon2 editions2018–2019
- Øredev2 editions2019–2022
- DevOpsDays Salt Lake City2 editions2016–2018
all 8 in the filters
on a stage with
- Troy Magennisonce
who talks about the same things
- Russ Miles22 talks
- Kent Beck14 talks
- Cat Swetel9 talks
- Daniel Terhorst-North42 talks
- Sabine Wojcieszak14 talks
- Heidi Waterhouse49 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| What are the odds? Transforming forecasts through probabilities | Øredev 2022 | 2022-11-08 |
Claims that probabilistic forecasts built from cycle time (finish − start + 1) and throughput match or beat traditional estimates, needing only ~10–15… | ||
| Binary Thinking is Destroying the World | DevOpsCon 2019 | 2019-12-02 |
It is so easy to think in binaries. I’m right and, because you don’t agree with me, you must be wrong. This is good and that’s something different so it must… | ||
| Using Conflict and Dissent to create robust, resilient solutions | DevOpsCon 2019 | 2019-12-02 |
When we think through work we primarily focus on the happy path. this only gives us half the picture. When we take time to explore the dark side of work, we… | ||
| Binary Thinking is destroying the World | DevOpsCon Munich 2019 | 2019-12-02 |
Claim: binary thinking is fracturing politics and workplaces and costs learning and progress. Evidence: a quoted tweet asserts 95 percent approval to… | ||
| Let's (not) get rid of all the managers! | Øredev 2019 | 2019-11-06 |
Argument: managers matter because they explain at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement and flat org experiments fail without guidance. Historical… | ||
| Defending against CDD: Chaos-Driven Delivery | DevOps Conference 2018 | 2018-12-03 |
Argument applies OS process management to team flow and gives concrete tools: surveys of first-come-first-served, shortest-job-first, priority, round-robin, a… | ||
| Finding Metrics that matter and using them safely | DevOpsCon Berlin 2018 | 2018-05-28 |
Claims a metric program must start from an outcome and work back to measures, using outcome → decision → insight → measure; shows concrete charts (cycle time… | ||
| How it goes to heck in a handbasket | DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2018 | 2018-05-15 |
Exploring an unhappy path and arguing for using the Swedish lagom idea as an operational lens, the presenter shows concrete tools: a work-in-process limits… | ||
| Taming the Chaos: Beyond the Quick Wins | DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017 | 2017-11-13 |
Visual Kanban boards start as quick wins but stall; the path forward is to connect the entire system (list all touchpoints, invite cross-silo alignment)… | ||
| Taming The Chaos: After The Quick Wins | DevOpsDays Seattle 2017 | 2017-04-26 |
Claims that shallow Kanban plateaus owe to visualizing alone and not addressing flow and handoffs and offers concrete fixes: adopt system thinking to map value… | ||
| Stop Running With Sharp Metrics | DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2016 | 2016-06-14 |
Argues that metrics must map to outcomes and warns specific harms like a public SLA dashboard that names engineers creating perverse incentives and rushed… | ||
| Combat Chaos-Driven Delivery By Thinking Like An OS | DevOpsDays Seattle 2016 | 2016-05-12 |
Teams map OS scheduling to delivery: blend priority and round-robin policies, dedicate fixed capacity to work classes and reserve flex generalists, and break… | ||
| Metrics and Modeling – Helping Teams See How to Improve | DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 | 2015-11-03 |
Argues that simple, balanced dashboards beat vanity metrics and gives concrete examples: a public naughty list of developers with 10+ bugs leads to gaming and… | ||
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