À propos
Who are you?
Founding primary author of the State of DevOps Report, ex-Google, ex-Puppet, and ex-DevOps.
What do you do for a living?
Engineering and product leader.
What are you going to talk about at FlowCon?
As tech leaders we like to think we’re responsible for driving organisational change, but most of the time, we’re just catching up to the possibilities created by new kinds of software, and re-forming our engineering organisations to take advantage of them. Organisational dynamics are critical, but success at enabling fast flow is ultimately dependent upon how well your tech stack enables it.
In this talk Nigel will take a tour through some history of the DevOps movement, findings from a decade of State of DevOps Reports, discuss some relevant inflection points in software and how they influence organisational dynamics, and argue that the dominance of “culture” topics fails to progress our industry.
What are you the proudest of?
The teams I've helped nurture and build in my career.
What speaker and/or topic would you like to see at FlowCon?
Kasper from Humanitec on platform orchestration for fast flow.
If you were an art piece, which one would it be?
Broadway Boogie-Woogie by Piet Mondrian
What's your favorite band, artist or song?
If I really have to just pick one artist, Aphex Twin.
Sum up your session or workshop in only 1 sentence
Drive cultural change by deploying the right technologies.
What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
- The DevOps movement spent too much time talking about culture.
- Technological change is necessary (but not sufficient) to change organisational dynamics and culture.
- Leadership support is necessary (but not sufficient) to change organisational dynamics and culture.
Founding primary author of the State of DevOps Report, ex-Google, ex-Puppet, and ex-DevOps.
What do you do for a living?
Engineering and product leader.
What are you going to talk about at FlowCon?
As tech leaders we like to think we’re responsible for driving organisational change, but most of the time, we’re just catching up to the possibilities created by new kinds of software, and re-forming our engineering organisations to take advantage of them. Organisational dynamics are critical, but success at enabling fast flow is ultimately dependent upon how well your tech stack enables it.
In this talk Nigel will take a tour through some history of the DevOps movement, findings from a decade of State of DevOps Reports, discuss some relevant inflection points in software and how they influence organisational dynamics, and argue that the dominance of “culture” topics fails to progress our industry.
What are you the proudest of?
The teams I've helped nurture and build in my career.
What speaker and/or topic would you like to see at FlowCon?
Kasper from Humanitec on platform orchestration for fast flow.
If you were an art piece, which one would it be?
Broadway Boogie-Woogie by Piet Mondrian
What's your favorite band, artist or song?
If I really have to just pick one artist, Aphex Twin.
Sum up your session or workshop in only 1 sentence
Drive cultural change by deploying the right technologies.
What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
- The DevOps movement spent too much time talking about culture.
- Technological change is necessary (but not sufficient) to change organisational dynamics and culture.
- Leadership support is necessary (but not sufficient) to change organisational dynamics and culture.
