What can stop you

organization

Blame Culture

Implications

unwillingness to:

  • take risks
  • accept responsibility for mistakes

Materialization

  • validation before {pushing|communicate|…}

!Fail Culture

“Chamanism”

from the Manchu-Tungus word šaman, meaning “one who knows”.

t: do A get B

t+X: do A get B

Believing in their own knowledge

Cargo Cult

!Doubt and ask

ITIL

~ticketing

Silos

!2Pizza/Feature team

biases

Homogeneity

General Assumptions

  • simple
  • manageable
  • cheap

Why?

Reality

  • put all your eggs in one basket
  • no flexibility

737 Max failure... oops

Static Thinking

Everything is moving.

When you translate from 1 system to another, you have 2 systems.

More is Less

Competition

Optimisation

an Invisible Hand

!= opposition

Same rules must apply to each other.

Not the good place

Competition can only be on the same market.

Dev and Ops are not.

Technical

Coupling

Circular dependency

Mechanization != Automation

Pencil Sharpener Industrial Pencil Sharpener
Dish Washing WTF Dishwashing Dish washer

Old School Laundry Washer

Overautomation

xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?

XKCD

xkcd: Automation

Debt

Examples

  • untested features
  • deprecated software parts
  • unmanaged deployments

Statistical bias

Be careful about what you measure

data facts over opinion

End

return