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Events in November

November 3, 2012

Gosh, this is going to be a busy month!

SF Culture Con, November 7
Next week there is a special event hosted by the fine folks at Dyn Inc, Culture Con. I hear it was a huge success over in New Hampshire and now they are bringing it to SF city. Looking forward to it.

QCon SF, November 5 – 9
We’ve also got QCon on in San Francisco next week. Lots of excellent speakers. Highly recommended.

SF StartUP Product Talks, November 13
The following week we’re hosting another SF StartUP ProductTalks meetup at Atlassian. Ron Lichty is speaking, should be killer.

SF Agile Marketing, November 27
Finally, we will close out the month with SF Agile Marketing. Paul WIllard, CMO at Atlassian, will be speaking on Growth Hacking. One not to miss.

Come for one, or join them all, I hope to see you there.

Have a suggestion for another event that folks should get to this month? Tweet me and let me know.

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Agile and Innovation – Hand-in-Hand at Atlassian

October 20, 2012

Well I must say, Rakuten is an amazing company and I am very impressed. They certainly know how to put on a conference!

My favourite talk was from Taichi Watanabe who spoke about the 10% Rule at Rakuten Travel. I have asked him to share his presentation, it was gold.

I gave a talk on the agile and innovation programs we run at Atlassian. If you are interested take a look:


Some questions cropped up subsequent to the talk – read the Q&A now.

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Is it common for a DevOps team to be made up of Dev and Ops?

October 16, 2012

A great query came through this morning:

Hey Nick, I have a question for you. We’re going through some org changes, and have put together a DevOps team. Traditionally, we’ve only had an Ops team. Right now, the DevOps team is made up of devs, and the idea is for them to work collaboratively with the Ops team (but Ops is still a separate team). Is that how most other organizations structure their DevOps team? Or is it more common for the DevOps team to be made up of both devs and ops people?

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Chris

My response:

Morning Chris,

When I see this working well it is always Dev *and* Ops. Or, you put Ops on the product team and make everyone responsible for the shared definition of done – similar to incorporating QA, just extending the Definition of Done through to production.

At the end of the day the name doesn’t matter so much as the individuals working together. A shared definition of done really helps drive that alignment and collaboration.

How are things otherwise? Are the teams delivering frequently? What is the goal of the DevOps team vs the Ops team (as it stands today)?

Is your VP Eng on board?

Thanks Chris,
Nick

This is based on what I have seen from visiting other Atlassian customers. I am keen to get your thoughts.

How is your approach to continuous delivery and DevOps structured? Share your views in the comments below.

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