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DevOps Exchange NYC Launch event featuring:
Tom Limoncelli, Manager @ Stack Overflow
"Low Context DevOps: A new way of improving SRE team culture"
Tom will introduce the new concept of "low-context DevOps culture": a framework for improving team culture to optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability.
"Low and high context cultures" is an anthropological concept, which he leveraged to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture.
A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken, which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a "remote only"/COVID-19 team.
A low-context DevOps culture is one where the info you need to do your job is available, visible, and accessible. Creating a low-context culture improves remote teamwork, new-hire onboarding, enables project hopping, and helps you better handle a page you receive at 2am. Techniques include: smart defaults, “make the right way, the lazy way”, and documentation at the right time and place.
Tom manages the SRE team at Stack Overflow in New York City. He is an internationally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and DevOps advocate. He has received the Usenix LISA Outstanding Achievement Award. Previously he's worked Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and others.
Twitter:
@YesThatTom
@TheDoxHub
DevOps Exchange events are organised and sponsored by LinuxRecruit - Continuous Delivery of Talented People to Innovative Businesses
linuxrecruit.co.uk
DevOps Exchange NYC Launch event featuring:
Tom Limoncelli, Manager @ Stack Overflow
"Low Context DevOps: A new way of improving SRE team culture"
Tom will introduce the new concept of "low-context DevOps culture": a framework for improving team culture to optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability.
"Low and high context cultures" is an anthropological concept, which he leveraged to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture.
A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken, which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a "remote only"/COVID-19 team.
A low-context DevOps culture is one where the info you need to do your job is available, visible, and accessible. Creating a low-context culture improves remote teamwork, new-hire onboarding, enables project hopping, and helps you better handle a page you receive at 2am. Techniques include: smart defaults, “make the right way, the lazy way”, and documentation at the right time and place.
Tom manages the SRE team at Stack Overflow in New York City. He is an internationally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and DevOps advocate. He has received the Usenix LISA Outstanding Achievement Award. Previously he's worked Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and others.
Twitter:
@YesThatTom
@TheDoxHub
DevOps Exchange events are organised and sponsored by LinuxRecruit - Continuous Delivery of Talented People to Innovative Businesses
linuxrecruit.co.uk
