How do we thrive in a world that is constantly changing? Proposed by Joi Ito of the MIT Media Lab, this Ignite from DevOpsDays Austin applies these nine principles for navigating the 21st century.

1. 9 Principles for Navigating Change
• Bruce Sterling
•Writer, speaker, futurist, design instructor
•Resiliency, Risk, and a Good Compass: Tools for the Coming
Chaos
• Joi Ito
•Director of the MIT Media Lab
•http://www.media.mit.edu/about/principles

2. Progress is Disruption
• Software Defined
Businesses

3. Resilience over Strength
• Expect and embrace
failure
• MTTR > MTBF

4. Resilience over Strength
• Game Days
• Chaos Monkey

5. Pull over Push
• Intelligence at the edges
• Modeling the world is
impossible

6. Pull over Push
• APIs for everything
• Disaggregated
component toolchains

7. Risk over Safety
• Continuous Integration
means continuously
breaking things
• Continuous Integration
means continuously
breaking things

8. Risk over Safety
• Fast moving disruption
• New technology
demands adaptation

9. Systems instead of Objects
• Systems are too
complex to break down
• Series of feedback loops

10. Systems instead of Objects
• Safety is a characteristic
of systems and not of
their components

11. Compasses not Maps
• Maps are static
snapshots
• Results without
understanding are
useless

12. Compasses not Maps
• Navigation and values
allow course corrections
• OODA loop

13. Practice instead of Theory
• Science > feelings
• Prototypes and
feedback beats plans
• “Let's work the problem
people. Let's not make
things worse by
guessing.“

14. Disobedience over Compliance
• Innovating without
asking permission

15. Disobedience over Compliance
• Shadow IT vs. ITIL
• Saying “No” vs. “Yes”

16. Emergence over Authority
• Crowds vs. Experts
• Wikipedia vs. Britannica
• Open Source

17. Emergence over Authority
• Complex systems are
constantly changing

18. Learning not Education
• What did you learn in
school?
• Learning is what you do,
education is done to you

19. Learning not Education
• Workers who don’t adapt
fall behind
• Share your knowledge
• Never get complacent

20. 9 Principles
• Resilience over Strength
• Pull over Push
• Risk over Safety
• Systems instead of
Objects
• Compasses not Maps
• Practice instead of
Theory
• Disobedience over
Compliance
• Emergence over
Authority
• Learning not Education