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• Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is.
• Appoint and empower a single threaded leader
• Two way door decisions
• Dogs not barking.
• Weasel words.
• If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank.

Contact Jana Werner

• LinkedIn: Jana Werner.

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The Cards

Here's the text of the all the cards:

Mechanism

1. How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
2. How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
3. How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
4. How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
5. How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
6. How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
7. How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
8. How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
9. How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
10. How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
11. How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
12. How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
13. How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
14. How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
15. How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?

Culture

1. How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
2. How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
3. How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
4. How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
5. How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
6. How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
7. How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
8. How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
9. How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
10. How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
11. How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
12. How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
13. How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
14. How can you start your next meeting with a document read?

Organisation

1. How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
2. How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
3. How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
4. How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
5. How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
6. [REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
7. How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
8. How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
9. How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?

Leadership

1. How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
2. How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
3. How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
4. How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
5. How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
6. How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
7. How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
8. How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
9. How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
10. How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
11. How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?

SDT News & Hype

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Special Guest: Jana Werner.

Show Notes

Follow-up

• Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap.
• Check out the last episode, the show page is- God-damned nifty!
• Review in iTunes France
• Osprey “one bag” style backpack.

The Best Uber Driver Ever

• Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan.
• The Sweat Hotel

Coté’s Agile shit

• Excerpt from a PDF in process.
• IBM design people.
• We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely.
• It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming.
• UK GDS rant.
• Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture
• How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom.
• Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions
• The Product Manager's Lament.
• If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile
• The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on - leave some comments!

The End-roll Mid-roll

• Coté: Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
• Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference.
• Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list.
• Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows.
• Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
• Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code”.

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.

OpenStack Anyone?

• There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona 35% annual growth sounds good
• With friends like these…: “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.”
• Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.”
• OTH, 🤔: "If you do these things the old fashioned way with Puppet, Chef and Ansible, they can be incredibly expensive because now you need the experts for everything," he says. "If you do them with Juju and Charms, you're sharing the cost of operational code with everybody else using those Charms."
• Meanwhile: 451 says “OpenStack revenues to grow at a 35% CAGR and exceed $5bn by 2020.” See chart in my newsletter from this week.

New York Times Buys The Wirecutter for $30 Million

• Good write-up about how The Wirecutter is/was very different from Gizmodo and the like
• Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guide

Adrian Cockcroft to AWS

• This is like the Warriors getting Kevin Durant, if the Warriors had won the championship last season ;)

AWS Server Migration Service

• “automatically replicate live server volumes to AWS and create Amazon Machine Images (AMI) as needed.”
• Currently VMware, more hypervisors coming
• Thanks for the partnership VMware!

RackN gets Funding

Looks like a seed round, yay for Rob.

The Barbarian Establishment

• Economist on Private Equity
• “private equiteers”
• “The fees they pay each time they buy or sell a company provide a fifth of the global banking system’s revenues from mergers and acquisitions.”
• “This is a particular issue for pension funds, which often need to earn 7% or 8% to meet their obligations.”

Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter

• “The company now claims that its commercial cloud annualized run rate has passed $13 billion (it was $12.1 billion last quarter), and that the gross margin of its commercial cloud business is up 7 points quarter-on-quarter to 49 percent.”
• Azure revenue growth was 116% last quarter; now have 11% market share compared to Amazon's 31%

IBM

• Hiring lots of people?

Stackanetes as a Product?

• “OpenStack on Kubernetes, or “Stackanetes” as the CoreOS team sadly likes to call it”

VMware & AWS: Harder Than it Looks

• Former VMware/EMC exec, now at Oracle.
• “hope is not a strategy.”
• “VMware wants the world to use their stack, AWS wants the same for their technology. Not exactly what I would call a long-term stable situation.”

Picks

• Brandon: Westworld.
• Coté: Sugar Bowl Madeleines at CostCo. I just ate five and the box ain't empty! Also, while you’re there: Tillamook Cheddar cheese slices, in the expensive refrigerated section. And I got another pair of brushed khaki Kirkland 5 pocket pants.
• Matt: Tokyo!
• Coté’s Bonus Recommendation: Matt Ray’s hair!

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