Revisits the history of cybernetics and explores how 2nd-order cybernetics can help DevOps understand itself and its relationship to the larger business organization.

1. From Cybernetics to DevOps…
and Beyond
Jeff Sussna Ingineering.IT @jeffsussna

3. “We value responding to change over following a plan”
-agilemanifesto.org

4. “The 3 Ways of DevOps: Flow, Feedback, Continuous
Learning”
-Tim Hunter

5. “Truly compelling definition of cloud agility…business
response to changing conditions or opportunity”
-Bernard Golden

6. “…frequent collection of team-wide feedback
minimizes time spent heading down the wrong path”
-Jeff Gothelf

11. Cybernetics: from the Greek for steersman

13. "Cybernetics needs to be applied to itself"
-Margaret Mead

14. For $64,000: What is DevOps?

16. “The controller is controlled by the controlled.”
-Ranulph Glanville

20. Autopoiesis: self-creation / self-production

21. Structural coupling: internal organization matches
external environment

22. Coupling implies perturbation, not information

23. Self-steering: continual internal/external adaptation

26. The post-industrial economy -
Service
Infusion
Complexity
Disruption
- demands self-steering

28. The biology of…

29. The biology of… empathy

30. “Success: a useful conversation with one’s environment”
-me

33. Everything we do becomes user-centered design

36. www.ingineering.it
blog.ingineering.it
linkedin.com/in/jeffsussna
@jeffsussna

37. Credits
!
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