When devops get's mentioned the discussion tends to fall in two parts: the technology part and the cultural part.

Sure, a lot is happening at the technology side: virtualization, cloud and more recently infrastructure as code. All cool stuff. And a good toolset sure is worth a lot for getting the job done more easily. Still tools will only have a mild impact on making people collaborate. Collaboration is really the core of the devops idea, plain and simple.
But even if the idea is simple, it doesn't mean the implementation is easy: a lot of resistance needs to be overcome.

Phrases like: ""this will never work"", ""it's only for those cool web 2.0 companies"", ""it only works for small startups"" are not usual when a mentality shift is introduced. Within this session, we will highlight several stories from the trenches how people are trying to bootstrap devops within their organizations and the benefits they got from it. Besides what worked, we will also explain the things that didn't work well.

Remember devops is no silver bullet. It's still hard work to get it going. At the end of the session, we hope to have provided you with several practical and useful tips to make it work inside YOUR company: How to get devs and ops work together, overcome management resistance, start working on the same goals and teams. That is of course if you want it !

	Cyber Dojo Jon Jagger : 3rd May 2012
	REST & BDD Brian Sletten : 2nd May 2012
	Technical Intro to CD Sam Newman : 30th Apr 2012
	Using Real User Metrics to Measure Perfo Tom Bassindale : 26th Apr 2012
	Continuous Deployment Rob Harrop : 24th Apr 2012
	Fluency : 24th Apr 2012
	- Sharepoint For Thinking Developers : 24th Apr 2012
	Scrum and your brain : 24th Apr 2012
	The Congruent Programmer : 24th Apr 2012
	C++11 for the rest of u : 24th Apr 2012
	Find(ing) bugs is easy : 24th Apr 2012
	The Rant Of Three : 24th Apr 2012
	Style C++ For Version Control : 24th Apr 2012
	The Beard Heuristic : 24th Apr 2012
	Not Only, But Also… : 24th Apr 2012