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2018 Salt Lake City DevOps Days CFP is now open!
Moving from Tooling to Transformation: The DevOps Model, what and who does it take?
Join us in May 2018 as we pull speakers from around the globe and locally. The summit offers insight into; what is getting in the way of implementing a DevOps model and practice, how to step back from tooling only, getting cross functional team alignment, manage change and better bring our leadership from Buzz words-and a limited focus-to the potential organizational transformation a DevOps model offers.
While national speakers are welcome, we would prefer local presenters, under-represented minorities and people with disabilities to submit a CFP for the 2018 Salt Lake City DevOps Days Summit.
What is 2018 all about?
As the notion of DevOps has become more integrated into our lexicon, and the CI/CD pipeline tools better known, few organizations have gone beyond an automated pipeline. Most thinking once they have a DevOps “person” or “team” they are #doingDevOps. Subsequently DevOps’ing *AllTheThings = We have DevOps. But do they?
Nothing against tooling and teams-reality is, automation is vital in the current fast pace, disruptive business climate. Having teams and people intelligently custom architect a pipeline to suit your business’ needs can be challenging but important. That said, new tooling is business as usual, we technologists have always skilled up, adopted then implemented emerging tools.
But recently created-so called-“DevOps tools” are light years beyond the old systems. They aren’t just systems and servers. DevOps tools and the systems they facilitate are intelligent, actionable, immutable, provide immediate feedback, require cross discipline collaboration, assure code security and are self healing. To be clear, they are formidable protectors of the business; not doing the right thing, being out of compliance, breaking the presentation layer, others code, costing too much to host, to name the most banal. If you can codify security, infrastructure, regulatory requirements and more, these tools are more than tools. They require more than just implementation, to be relevant, DevOps tools require cross discipline PRACTICES which make and keep the tooling relevant to what your business is doing. This practice is called “DevOps.”
prac·tice ˈpraktəs/ noun
- the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method as opposed to theories about such application or use.
- "the principles and practice of teaching"
- synonyms:
application, exercise, use, operation, implementation, execution
use, make use of, put to use, utilize, apply
"it's time you put your teaching degree into practice"
A practice needs a model, a model needs a coach, a coach is a leader. Puppet’s 2017 State of DevOps report states:
The 2017 State of DevOps report shows that leaders are critical to the success of any DevOps or digital transformation effort across an organization. Conversely, failing to facilitate effective change is highly risky. By 2020, it's predicted, half of CIOs who have not transformed their teams' capabilities will lose their place on the digital leadership team.
This year, the nearly 3,200 IT leaders and practitioners who responded to our survey showed us that transformational leadership is key to teams being able to scale DevOps and achieve high performance — both IT performance and overall organizational performance.
Salt Lake City DevOps Days Summit 2018 welcomes all levels of leadership as well as practitioners who are managing the tooling, the practice, the people, the budget and the change.
