The document summarizes key points from a presentation by J. Paul Reed on continually breaking and fixing an organization to promote resilience. It discusses establishing a culture of continuous experimentation through small, targeted experiments aimed at cultural alignment rather than process replication. Experiments should specify target conditions rather than solutions and focus on revealing and removing obstacles over time through reflection.
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Build Engineer”
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Principal at Release
Engineering
Approaches
Chief Delivery
Officer at Praxisflow
15+ years in build/
release engineering
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26. The evidence of
the last 20 years
indicates that
trying to copy or
reproduce another
company’s tools,
techniques, or
principals does
little to change an
organization’s
culture.
— Mike Rother
42. THE IMPORTANCE OF A
TARGET CONDITION
(not your idea versus my idea about
what we could do) and brings
people’s efforts into alignment.
— Rother
[A] target
condition...
creates a
challenge that
depersonalizes a
situation
54. PEBBLE THEORY OF CHANGE
Drain until you can see
the rocks, i.e. obstacles;
then remove those
obstacles
55. PEBBLE THEORY OF CHANGE
Drain until you can see
the rocks, i.e. obstacles;
then remove those
obstacles
Don’t target the rocks
you “know” are there
56. PEBBLE THEORY OF CHANGE
Drain until you can see
the rocks, i.e. obstacles;
then remove those
obstacles
Don’t target the rocks
you “know” are there
Don’t dredge up the
whole swamp
57. [T]he ability of your
company to be
competitive and
survive lies not so
much in solutions
themselves, but in the
capability of the people
in your organization to
understand a situation
and develop solutions.
— Rother
64. Adoption of Agile &
DevOps methodologies is
a journey, and every
person and
organization’s journey is
going to be different.
-J. Paul Reed
DevOps
inPractice
J. Paul Reed
http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/devops-in-practice.csp