The biggest thing that most people miss, and this is something I've talked with Jean Kim about. It's not about the tools. Tools will come and tools will go. The point is, how can you go through and make better decisions? How is it that you're able to achieve the actual outcomes? This is something that actually drives me a bit crazy with a lot of the DevOps community. People focus so much on outputs, they focus on uptime, but they don't actually think about what is it that the customers are trying to do and what's important.
“It’s not about the tools or processes. Most important is you understand the target outcomes for your customers and establish the right level of shared situational awareness across the teams."
Robert Benefield is the author of “Lean DevOps: A Practical Guide to On Demand Service Delivery”. In this episode, Robert shared insights on how we can apply the Lean DevOps mindset for building successful IT delivery organizations. Robert started by sharing what initiated him writing the book and how it differs from the other available DevOps books. Robert described the concept of on-demand service delivery and important concepts, such as knowing the target outcomes, building situational awareness, and making effective and timely decisions based on the OODA loop. Robert also shared a few practices and techniques he outlined in the book, such as mission command, workflow board, queue master, service engineering lead, value stream mapping, and Einheit.
Listen out for:
- Career Journey - [00:03:58]
- Writing a DevOps Book - [00:14:14]
- On Demand Service Delivery - [00:18:58]
- Mission Command - [00:21:42]
- OODA Loop - [00:26:56]
- Building Situational Awareness - [00:33:16]
- Workflow Management - [00:39:43]
- 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:49:41]
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Robert Benefield’s Bio
Robert Benefield is an experienced technical leader who has decades of experience delivering robust on-demand services to solve hard problems in demanding ecosystems including banking and securities trading, medical and pharmaceutical, energy, telecom, government, and Internet services. His continual eagerness to learn and work with others to make a difference has taken him from building computers and writing code in the early days of the Internet at Silicon Valley startups to the executive suite in large multinational companies. He shares his unique experience in the hopes that others can continue to build on it without having to collect quite as many scars along the way.
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