DevOps Tools and Culture: Identifying and Elevating Constraints while Transforming Coercive Systems\Procedures into Enabling Systems\Procedures

Abstract:

In the second decade of the 21st century, DevOps is meeting the challenges of rapid architectural change, cloud computing, new devices, virtualization, configuration management and the need for automatic deployment and continuous integration by empowering development and operations to synergize with each other. As both a cultural and technological shift in how IT systems are managed from cradle to grave, DevOps emphasizes communication, collaboration and integration between all stakeholders and beneficiaries. In this session, Chaim Cohen will demonstrate how DevOps is changing sacrosanct operations fundamentals while promoting flexible and elastic computing environments. He will analyze the culture of fingerpointing; focus on the integration of equipment, people and policy; display processes for ongoing improvement; show how to identify and elevate constraints; exhibit how to transform Coercive Systems/Procedures into Enabling Systems/Procedures; and demonstrate how to promote agility over raw power decision-making in “observe-orient-decide-act” cycles that supports quick, effective and proactive decision-making.

Speakers:

Chaim Cohen is a developer advocate, content strategy director and information architect at WebIntegrity. Since the early 1990’s, Chaim has been active in promoting the Web as a vehicle that enhances human communication. He focuses on empowering all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location or ability to explore and create a future in which information is more effectively structured and useful connections are more easily revealed. Concentrating on agile project management techniques, strategic content development, cutting-edge design and enticing UX (User experience), Chaim integrates open standards, best practices and innovations in a highly flexible and interactive manner in order to achieve responsive, accessible and search-engine-friendly sites that work better across all platforms and devices. He envisions a Web that is free, available, usable and valuable where all people have the opportunity to participate in the process of sharing and advancing knowledge, while building trust and synergy towards a more peaceful and equitable world.