chatting with pauly comtois

In the same week that the Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series, Pauly Comtois is finally a guest on Arrested DevOps! Pauly is the VP of DevOps for Heart Business Media, and he shares with us some of the challenges (and successes) of effecting a DevOps transformation at a large enterprise.

Show Notes

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Little’s Law
Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation (aka “the Drive TED talk”)
The Five Love Languages of DevOps
“As a great conductor, I don’t know how to play every instrument. But I know how they should sound” - Pauly
Pauly is launching a new blog in 2017 at http://www.devopstherapist.com/

Community & Event Stuff

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Upcoming conferences

For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off.

DevOpsDays Cape Town Nov 7, 2016 - Nov 8, 2016
DevOpsDays Nashville Nov 10, 2016 - Nov 11, 2016
DevOpsDays Berlin Nov 16, 2016 - Nov 17, 2016
DevOpsDays Brazil Nov 18, 2016
DevOpsDays Warsaw Nov 22, 2016 - Nov 23, 2016
DevOpsDays Paris Nov 28, 2016
DevOpsDays Sydney Dec 1, 2016 - Dec 2, 2016

Open CFPs

DevOpsDays Baltimore - closing on Dec 12, 2016
ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017

Check Outs

Pauly

Pauly is speaking 9:30a.m. Wednesday the 9th at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 or check out the live stream!
Pauly’s talk at DevOpsDays KC

Matt

MarkdownToPDF
Errors Azure Throws
Chicago Cubs win the World Series!

Pauly Comtois

Pauly Comtois is VP of DevOps for Hearst Business Media. This role provides full time consulting to ten business units within Hearst focusing on continuous improvement and community building through culture, process and tools. Pauly has over 20 years’ experience in building, developing and leading high performing IT, Support, Operations and Development teams in rapidly growing organizations. Pauly is a seasoned leader of cultural change efforts in unifying Development and Operations through training and mentorship in Agile, Lean, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

Matt Stratton (he/him)

Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.

He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.