Company Culture hacking for

competitive advantage

David Lutz@dlutzy

Competitive advantage?

There’s more to company culture than...

hack1

Infrastructure as code

"Infrastructure as code" is pretty clear. Treat your infrastructure as code. Programmable. Testable. Deployable. - lusis

Remove all that error-prone, hand-crafted, manual, boring old-school sysadmin stuff! - me

Infrastructure as code:

● Aligns Dev and Ops processes● Builds transparency and trust

● Brings Dev and Ops closer together

Pull request for a firewall change anyone?

hack2

Build interdepartmental empathy

So you want root access on production eh?

hack2.1 Build interdepartmental empathy

Induction for new starters

hack2.2 Build interdepartmental empathy

Cross Skilling

Sysadmin at the end of a week on call

hack2.3 Build interdepartmental empathy

Devs on call

Developer at the end of a week on call

hack2.4 Build interdepartmental empathy

Doublejacking with Support

hack2.5 Build interdepartmental empathy

Embedded engineer

hack3

Extracurricular hacks

hack3.1 Extracurricular hacks

Food hack.

On Premises barista?

Do you Eat lunchtogether?

hack3.2 Extracurricular hacks

Company sports

So, how about that local sports team. Eh?

hack3.3 Extracurricular hacks

Company band

hack4

Hack days

hack5

Flexible working conditions

hack5.1 Flexible working conditions

The 9-5 job is dead. Long live flexible working conditions.

Sysadmin on call at 9am standup

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Accommodate people’s working styles. Hack your seating.

hack6.1 Accommodate people's working styles

The Desktop is dead. Long live the laptop.

hack6.2 Accommodate people's working styles

The wired LAN is dead. Long live wifi.

hack7

Open Source is a culture hack

hack8

Career development hack

hack9

Metrics hack

hack10

Measure happiness

Niko Niko Charts

More subtle ways of measurement. Who's wearing the companyshirt?

hack11

Celebrate success

http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/3023061528/ via Allspaw :-)

hack12

Team structure hack

1 Infrastructure as code hack2 Build interdepartmental empathy3 Extracurricular hacks4 Hack days5 Hack your working conditions6 Accommodate different working styles7 Open Source is a culture hack8 Hack your career9 Metrics hack10 Measure happiness11 Celebrate Success12 Hack your team structure Questions? Comments? @dlutzy