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Culture: the invisible ingredient

Even when neither Continuous Delivery nor DevOps as terms contain the word "culture", both heavily imply an adequate culture in the company to be successful. But what exactly does it mean, to have a culture that allows for Continuous Delivery and/or DevOps? Is it just the new buzzword to create some budget for reorganisation, or is it just a label to put after having a Culture Taskforce meeting for a while, or is it essential or even inevitable to really change the company culture to succeed? Do startups per se have a culture allowing them to deliver continuously through inexorable DevOps, and how are classic enterprises different? We discuss it in the panel.

Moderation: Pavlo Baron (codecentric)

// Panelisten

// Jez Humble

is a vice president at Chef, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010), and the forthcoming Lean Enterprise, in Eric Ries’ Lean series. He has been fascinated by computers and electronics since getting his first ZX Spectrum aged 11, and spent several years hacking on Acorn machines in 6502 and ARM assembler and BASIC until he was old enough to get a proper job. He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services and on-line retail companies. From 2004 – 2014 he worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London and San Francisco. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MMus in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is presently working for Chef and living in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and daughters.

// Mathias Meyer

works at Travis CI and has an ubernatural thirst to learn everything about distributed systems, how great teams work, infrastructure and coffee, not necessarily in that order.

// Daniel Schauenberg

is a Senior Software Engineer at Etsy's infrastructure and development tools team. Automation, documentation and simplicity are his usual tools for improving the status quo. He previously worked in systems and network admninistration, on connecting chemical plants to IT systems and as an embedded systems networking engineer. Things he thoroughly enjoys when not writing code include coffee, breakfast, tv shows and basketball.

// Eberhard Wolff

arbeitet als freiberuflicher Architekt und Berater. Außerdem ist er Java Champion und Leiter des Technologie-Beirats der adesso AG. Sein technologischer Schwerpunkt liegt auf Java, Continuous Delivery und Cloud.