When: December 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture Moderator: Tom Limoncelli
Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org Live stream: https://youtu.be/1ixxKy4ES2o Summary: “Low-Context DevOps Culture”: a framework for improving team culture to optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability Abstract: “Low and high context cultures” is an anthropological concept, which Tom leverages to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture. A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken, which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a “remote only”/COVID-19 team. A low-context DevOps culture is one where the info you need to do your job is available, visible, and accessible. Creating a low-context culture improves remote teamwork, new-hire onboarding, enables project hopping, and helps you better handle a page you receive at 2am. Techniques include: smart defaults, “make the right way, the lazy way”, and documentation at the right time and place. Bio: Tom manages the SRE team at Stack Overflow in New York City. He is an internatio nally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and DevOps advocate. He has received the Usenix LISA Outstanding Achievement Award. Previously he's worked Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and others. Attachments https://everythingsysadmin.com/ https://www.whatexit.org/ For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site: http://www.blu.org -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com <mailto:gaf.li...@gmail.com>> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
