Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast: Episode 50 – Special Episode with Gene Kim and the DOES16 Speakers

This morning we had our first in a series of special episodes of our Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) podcast with Gene Kim and the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES16) speakers.

We discussed the role of middle managers in leading DevOps adoption in the enterprise and scaling DevOps throughout your organization; How Conway's law (and the "Reverse Conway’s Law") comes into play in DevOps and in IT and developer productivity; What are some of the DevOps challenges our speakers and the conference programming committee identify, and some patterns for addressing them; the importance of community and learning from peers, and more.  

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This episode features:

Gene Kim DevOps enthusiast, The Phoenix Project co-author, Tripwire founder, Visible Ops co-author, IT Ops/Security Researcher, Theory of Constraints Jonah, rabid UX fan. @RealGeneKim | www.realgenekim.me/

Damon Edwards DevOps and improving how businesses operate is my thing. SimplifyOps, DTO Solutions, my family gets all of my time. Sometimes I write at http://dev2ops.org . @damonedwards |

Heather Mickman Senior director for the Platform Engineering team at Target and a DevOps enthusiast. Heather has a passion for technology, building high performing teams, driving a culture of innovation, and having fun along the way. @hmickman | http://target.github.io/

Pauly Comtois VP @ Hearst. DevOps and Lean Leader. Lecturer and presenter. Startup Volunteer. Continuous Improvement is my path to success. Also, Gene Kim fanboy. @paulycomtois | devopstherapist.com

Michael Nygard Cognitect, Inc. Author of Release It!, speaker. @mtnygard | devopstherapist.com

There's nothing like learning from peers:

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On the next episode of Continuous Discussions:

Episode 51: Artifact Repository and DevOps

Join us Tuesday, September 20 , to discuss the role of artifact repository as part of your DevOps processes and release pipelines. The expert panel will share patterns and tips for Artifact Repository uses to support CD pipelines, distributed teams, microservices, and more.

This episode will feature:

Baruch Sadogursky J*, G* and Public Speaking Geek with JFrog FTW. @jbaruch | blogs.jfrog.org

Eduardo Piairo DBAdmin & DevOps; Always ready to learn about SQL management and optimization, database source control, continuous integration and delivery @EdPiairo | www.eduardopiairo.com

Rafael Schloming CTO and Chief Architect of Datawire. Globally recognized expert on messaging, and co-author of the AMQP 1.0 specification. Previously, Rafael was a principal software engineer at Red Hat. @brikelly | datawire.io/blog

Robert Los Robert Los is one of the co-founders of BrainStam, A cloud-based Continuous Delivery platform. @brainstam_cd | www.linkedin.com/company/10665330