In addition to some other random digital transformation topics, we also discuss how HR policies are struggling to change with things like pair programming and DevOps.

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Show-notes and Links

• Matt Curry: @mattjcurry
• Coté: @cote, cote.io

Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 643

You don't hear too many stories about microservices in "normal" companies. In this episode, I talk with Nate Foreman about microservices-driven work he's been doing with a large enterprise recently. We discuss the goods and the bads of this approach and, overall, how it's working out. It's a good discussion of how all the usual "cloud native" concept actually play out in the real world.

(As you can guess, it's not actually an "action figure" company, we just used that example to mask the actual company.)

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Show Notes and Links

• DevOpsDays Detroit
• Nate in LinkedIn.
• Coté: @cote, cote.io

Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 529.

What organization could be larger than the US Federal government? Not only that, the chance to transform how software is done in the government has perhaps one of the largest possible impacts of transforming any "IT department." In this episode, Matt and Coté talk with Diego Lapiduz who works in the GSA's 18F organization helping government agencies develop their software in new, more agile and cloud-driven ways. We discuss the background of 18F and the broader government initiatives to transform how software is done and also walk through some of the learnings 18F has had in trying to make such a huge transformation.

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Show-notes and Links

• Hiring is the biggest problem around government processes.
• To build empathy and different teams working together, try to tackle a common goal.
• Building credibly by demonstrating that your method works.
• The Ugly Baby Problem - winning over people who think they're already doing it right.
• Measuring success.
• 18F in github. github.com/18F and 18f.gsa.gov.
• Examples of project: NotAlone.gov, The College Score Card.
• Explaining "failing fast" in government. People start to understand it as they have more experience.
• How open source is helpful here, how non-government folks get involved and contribute to the open source projects.
• Diego's recent talk at the Cloud Foundry Summit 2014.
• As more background on IT change in the government, check out this overview from Mikey Dickerson at OSCON 2015.
• Diego Lapiduz: @dlapiduz
• Matt Curry: @mattjcurry
• Coté: @cote, cote.io

Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 458.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 281.

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.