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  • Episode 7: Getting beyond "the comfort of the number."
    Summary

    In this first part of a new series, Matt Curry and I discuss many of the problems with transforming how a large company uses IT. From dealing with businesses cases, the finance department, and changing how the business thinks about using IT, there are numerous organizational change problems to chew on. This launches a new series of episodes in Lords of Computing where Matt and I will talk interview various folks out there who are going through transformation at their company. We're interested in hearing what's work and not worked for them.

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    Show Notes and Links
    • Matt in Twitter, Coté in Twitter
    • Avatar pictures
    • Excel is a white-collar battering ram.
    • Management as programming the orginization
    • The Wolf in CIO's Clothing
    • Despite a mandate, you have to convince people to do their job
    • Leading the Transformation and A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development
    • Negotiating a business case - finding out what's "really" needed.
    • "The Business doesn't know what they actually want."
    • Getting the business to understand programming, and vice-versa.
    • Having a roadmap vs. documented features - flow vs. fully specified goal

      • Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 558.

      1 hr 6 min
    • Episode 6: Try to avoid killing your acquisition
      Summary

      After catching up about movies and OpenStack, John and I discuss how difficult it is to properly integrate acquired companies into the larger company. We also discuss what VCs are looking for to say yes now: a good team, it seems.

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      Show notes and Links
      • Aloha.
      • State of OpenStack talk.
      • Andrew Shafer's To Whom it May Concern
      • If A rounds are easy, what are investors looking for?
      • The three P's: people, process, philosophy/priorities
      • Toyota Kata - Learning to See.
      • That Matt Curry/Andrew Shafer conversation, the original Hangouts video.
      • DevOpsDays DC talk on government DevOps use?
      • DevOpsDays AMS up next

        • Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 500.

        1 hr 3 min
      • Episode 5: When the practice of using the tool is novel, thought-lording new technologies

        We discuss how you (slowly) introduce new technologies into the market by looking at past tech cycles John has gone through. We also catch-up on the Craft conference and John’s travels in Europe.

        Show-notes and Links

        • The Bruce Sterling Web 2.0 European Conference Circuit
        • Craft conference Prezi
        • Consul, Teraform, etc.
        • Johnaform
        • How do you install the thing, how do you fix the thing?
        • DevOps Weekly email list.
        • The 5 why's of cloud
        • Damon and those guys.
        • Simon Wardly's evolution of practice
        • "The practice of using the tool is novel."
        • When the wave finally broke
        • Defined vs. constrained by the tools you use.
        • Learning to See
        • How does this compare to the rise of VMware?
        • Don't be constrained by billing.
        • How are you measured?
        • Bruge, beer museum, churches, chocolate and beer

          • Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 337.

          1 hr 19 min
        • Episode 4: "I have become the hustler," Robert Brook
          Summary

          It can take a long time to get "the mainstream" to use new technologies. One would assume that this would be true in supporting the government, as Robert Brook does in his day job. In this brief episode, over the din and bottle collection activities at Monkigras, I catch up with him on just that topic and how he tries to manage being a change agent for the benefit of the UK Parliament.

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          Show notes and Links
          • Roland R09 vs. the Zoom H4n.
          • Monkigras 2015, London
          • Robert Brook, working at the UK Parliament. What does this guy do exactly?
          • Reducing friction in the existing systems. How does one do this?
          • Digital enterprises as seen in my "Why I'm working at Pivotal blog post."
          • Fun things like "Is my MP sitting?"
          • Jon Udell on getting iCal files from the library

            • Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 289.

            14 min
          • Episode 3: Something Celsius and Busy Bullshit work
            Summary

            While he's in Paris for the local DevOpsDays, John and I discuss the next big step for DevOps: getting "The Business" involved to tie-break the process deadlock. Plus: the Dutch are delightful!

            Sponsor: The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It's a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side and to hear how organizations are using Cloud Foundry to become Software Defined Businesses. Register now with the discount code COTE and get 25%, which will bring the price down from $250 to about $187.

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            Show-notes and Links
            • The Dutch are DevOpsing, brother.
            • John at DevOpsDays Paris. What's it like there?
            • Fighting "them" when it comes to DevOps. Docker is the Millennium Falcon
            • The Why guy
            • The Wall of confusion, 2010.
            • Where's "The Business" when it comes to DevOps and cloud? Are they showing up?
            • "What kind of company do you think we are?"
            • Chad Dickerson Duke interview on Etsy.
            • The Goal - make sure you read it.
            • JPMC says the nerds are coming.
            • Flash Boys: DevOps Cafe Episode 58 - Zoran Perkov
            • A Sense of Urgency
            • The Halo Effect - you can't just learn from success.
            • Good to Great
            • This week's pic: my old Apple and work-Dell side-by-side.

              • Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 298.

              1 hr
            • Episode 2: Becoming a tech reporter, talking with Alex Williams
              Summary

              How do you go from playing baseball in France, to getting shot at, to covering the tech industry? I talk with Alex Williams about how he did just that and eventually launched thenewstack.io, one of the more interesting, new technology news sites.

              Sponsor: The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It's a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side and to hear how organizations are using Cloud Foundry to become Software Defined Businesses. Register now with the discount code COTE and get 25%, which will bring the price down from $250 to about $187.

              Subscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed

              Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 281.

              1 hr 10 min
            • Episode 1: How to demo your cloud poop, don't smoke corn silk

              What does it take to demo a cloud software? It's not easy! Also, lamb considered and memories of barcampESM. Our first re-boot of the IT Management and Cloud Podcast, renamed the Lords of Computing Podcast.

              Your friends, @cote and @botchagalupe.

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              Show-notes and Links
              • Lamb and DevOpsDays Mama Mia.
              • Memories, barcampESM - the first IT Management and Cloud podcast episode.
              • The need for Disaster Kitchen Apps - getting to better demos for cloud infrastructure
              • The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - always have an enemy!
              • The Anti-corruption layer pattern for integrating with old IT.
              • Netflix documentary of VCs, Something Ventured - Ben Thompson essay on venture capital and tech companies.
              • Our plans for the Lords of Computing Podcast.

                • Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 633.

                56 min

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