Boulders, Barricades, and Bumps: Solving Development and Cultural Pain on the Road to CD
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Moving a company to continuous delivery isn't easy. Which definition of CD should you even use to explain why it's important? What if it seems like a completely overwhelming transition that couldn't possibly be successful?
We'll talk about our definition of continuous delivery along with the three main types of development and cultural pain in the way getting a company there. Learn how to identify the types of pain, how to solve them, and how to hold on to enough hope to keep trying.
About Laine Minor
Laine has been a developer, a technical lead, a stay at home mom, and an IT architect – and that last was a broad enough title that it let her do both technical things AND cultural things.
She realized then that that was her most favorite place to be, in that in-between place of technology and culture.
She also learned that enabling people and organizations is HARD work, and that explaining that in-between place can help.
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Josh has been in in IT for 15 years, as a developer, lead dev, tech lead, architect, and enterprise architect. He's worked on big teams, small teams, and been on a team of one. In the process of all of this, he's learned a ton, and he loves to mentor and share that information.
He also loves strategy – laying out plans and figuring out dependencies, which order to do things in. Included in this is a deep love of the complicated business + people + culture + tech (especially tech that makes people's lives easier) of IT strategy.
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