How to convince your boss that it is DevOps that he wants

Abstract:

We all know that we could implement DevOps a lot faster if we only would have commitment from our boss. We all know that there is a shiny business case for almost every DevOps implementation

And we all know that the whole company will reap the benefits regarding speed, agility and stability once we implemented DevOps. Actually, it provides good, fast and cheap at the same time. So, what are we waiting for? What is your boss waiting for? What is C-level waiting for?

That’s something we will do research on in this workshop. We will also share our research on this from the recent past. The technique that we use is called Appreciative Inquiry. To tackle a problem, it discovers the best practices that work, the reason they work and how these combined practices can be used to avoid the problem ahead and create a strategic change. The aim is to build – or even rebuild – organizations around what works, rather than trying to fix what doesn’t.

So we want to know what your boss is afraid of and what you have already tried to convince him that he is better of with DevOps. You will leave the workshop with the combined Appreciative Inquiry insights of all the attendees.

Speaker:

Henrich Grönloh and Jan de Vries have been deploying DevOps at insurance company a.s.r. in the past 18 months and are drawing their roadmap for the coming years.

Henrich is an Agile Coach/Lean Expert at a.s.r. He is a trusted advisor, trainer and coach on Agile and Lean topics for management and employees. He is also active in the Enterprise DevOps community in the working group DevOps Culture.

Jan de Vries is a senior business IT Consultant at a.s.r. and a trusted advisor in the fields of requirements engineering, business information management, application management and DevOps. He is BiSL, ASL and ITIL trainer and convenor of the Enterprise DevOps working group that unites members of the ASL BiSL Foundation, the Agile Consortium and ITSMF.