Company culture hacks for competitive advantage
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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
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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
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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?
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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