#47 Alec Lazarescu, DevOps to the Rescue

Summary

Alec Lazarescu, CTO of LearnBop tells me how to introduce and expand DevOps inside your organization.

Details

Who he is, what Learnbop does, how tutoring works; how Alec defines DevOps; how to introduce DevOps, lone consultant, re-branded admin team, dedicated team; why is software dev so messy; getting people to accept change, Conway’s law, DevOps is about more than just dev; DevOps as facilitators; the role of microservices, harder in a big org; Simon Wardley - pioneers settlers and town planners; Spotify - squads, chapters, guilds, where do all these names/titles come from.

Book Recommendations

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

• Continuous Delivery

• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

• Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

Links

• DevSecOps
• Simon Wardley

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