You probably already know how proud I am to be associated with the annual State of DevOps Survey and Report — over the last five years, working with Alanna Brown, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Nigel Kersten, and Puppet, we’ve gathered data on over 20,000 respondents, to better understand the health and habits of organizations using DevOps principles and patterns. You may be thinking, haven’t we already learned everything about DevOps? And so why should I take the survey again? In my … [Read more...]
Getting Your Presentation Submission Accepted for DevOps Enterprise Summit in 2017
Since 2013, we’ve reviewed nearly one thousand submissions for our Call for Presenters for DevOps Enterprise Summit. In this post, I wanted to share my top advice and tips to maximize your chance of submitting a presentation proposal that gets accepted. Fellow programming committee member Damon Edwards and I gave an hour-long webinar on this topic, and we were joined by Margo Cronin, whose submission we accepted last year for 2016 London conference about DevOps at Zurich Insurance, who shared … [Read more...]
Citations from The DevOps Handbook
I wrote previously about some of the statistics about The DevOps Handbook: 5+ years in the making 23 chapters 48 case studies 101,365 words (134,000 with the index) 48 images 509 endnotes 192 footnotes Personally, I have a tremendous sense of satisfaction about the 509 endnotes. In some ways, the citations (in the form of endnotes) show the foundations that the book is built upon, both in the principles, practices, metrics and case studies. Because of the nature of this book, unlike … [Read more...]
RECAP: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
What an amazing week we had at DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES16)! I just want to say “thank you!” to all the incredible speakers, sponsors, staff and, of course, our participants, for making this our best conference yet. This year, IT Revolution, along with our Founding Partner Electric Cloud, hosted more than 1,300 attendees in San Francisco for three days of DevOps sharing and learning and mutual support. Many people commented to me, both during and after, about the infectious energy at the … [Read more...]
What to Expect from DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
Many have asked me what I’m looking forward to at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 in San Francisco — it is the third year of our conference, and I think it will be our best conference yet! Here are three of the things I’m looking forward to most: Where Are They Now? First off, we will have seven speakers back to present for the third time at the conference. Having this pattern of repeat speakers is a bit unusual for a conference, but I love that we’re following these leaders on their continuing … [Read more...]
DevOps Handbook Author Highlight Reel
Many of you may already know who Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis are… but even for those who are familiar with their work, you can read more about the history of my relationship with my fellow co-authors on this post. Here are some of my “best of” videos and blog posts for each of them. John Willis One of the many things that John Willis is known for is the State of the Union talks he’s given at many DevOpsDays, having attended over nearly of them since 2009. Here is a ten minute … [Read more...]
The Authors of The DevOps Handbook
An amazing group of co-authors to tackle this topic I have never learned as much during any project than researching and writing The DevOps Handbook. And so much of that learning was from my fellow coauthors. I love the saying, “You’re only as smart as the top five people you hang out with.” Writing a book is like so many things in life, where the outcomes are a function of who our collaborators are. And it seems impossible for me to overstate how much I’ve learned from them. And holy cow, … [Read more...]
Three Takeaways from DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
Hello, all — For those of you who attended or spoke at the 2016 London DevOps Enterprise Summit, I wanted to give a big “thank you!” For me, it was an utterly fantastic event, because I learned so much from how leaders are transforming large, complex organizations and getting phenomenally improved outcomes in terms of fast feature flow from development into production, as well as preserving world-class reliability, stability, and security. I’d like to share some of the highlights for our first … [Read more...]
DOES16 London: Agenda is Live! + New Speakers + Bonus Track
When we first set out to host a DevOps Enterprise Summit in London, we planned for one keynote track, one programmed breakout track, and one sponsor track. Due to the abundance of amazing stories from the DevOps community, we’ve added an additional programmed track. See the Agenda >>> Take a Look at the Latest Speakers We've added the final round of speakers to the conference agenda. You'll hear experience reports from fellow technology leaders including: Kevin Bowman, Head of … [Read more...]
Guest Q & A with Mark Schwartz, author of The Art of Business Value
The study of business value seems obvious at first—after all, over the course of our careers, we’ve all seen which activities create value and which ones waste everyone’s time. But what if our grasp of what business value really is, is not quite right to start with? In his new book, The Art of Business Value, the indomitable Mark Schwartz shows us that understanding business value is not as simple as it seems. I recently sat down with Schwartz to ask him a few questions about this elusive … [Read more...]
