February, 2014

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Feb 14

Scaling Your Self-Service as a Service

Our topic for Episode 37 was originally on scaling self-service of configuration management (the source code kind, not the infrastructure kind!) good practices, but quickly morphed into a discussion of what organizations need to pay attention and foster to support their tools teams in their often-cited mission of creating a self-service culture and self-service infrastructure. Paul and Sascha square off over the notions of traditional “service” teams and the newer notion of integrated “tools” (“DevOps?”) teams. We also touch on warning signs for automating self-service processes, including in the CM space, really examining how and why you convert which processes into self-service, ways to get teams to buy into your self-service initiatives, and what’s in the best interests of the entire system that is your software development organization. Join us as we discuss the finer points of:

Scaling Your Self-Service as a Service

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a review!

Or, download Episode 37, or any of our previous shows!

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Review

Paul reviews Venkat Rao’s The Gervais Principle (Or The Office According to “The Office”): losers, clueless, and sociopaths: oh my!

The ebook contains an extra essay on Office Space.

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What issues have you run into while trying to sell or scale self-service initiatives?

Have you had to encode culture into your self-service policies to work around problems?

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Feb 14

Myths, Archetypes, Heroes, and Imposters

In episode 36, we sit down with Shanley Kane and Amelia Greenhall to talk about people and communities within the technology industry and startup/VC culture. We were first introduced to Shanley in episode 24, where the crew discussed her post on microaggression in management. We touch again on that topic today, but also look at the power structures that are often obscured or deemphasized. We also look at what conferences and meetups are (or aren’t) doing to help keep all attendees safe, and what we can all do to improve our workplaces and the technology industry as a whole. Plus, we discuss Shanley and Amelia’s new venture: Model View Culture, a media company dedicated to helping us all examine and deconstruct the technology industry’s:

Myths, Archetypes, Heroes, and Imposters

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a timely tool tip!

Or, download Episode 36, or any of our previous shows!

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Tool Tip

Paul looks at a new take on an old beloved tool: incron.

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Have you experienced microagression, imposter syndrome, the hero complex, and 10-x engineers?

How do you approach these complex issues in your workplace and other spaces (meetups, etc.)?

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