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If you want your agency to be fully digital, you can't have centralized delivery teams - they need to be embedded in various teams #govdevops19
If you're truly doing agile, there is no failure #govdevops19
Having standards is not a solution for anything. Collaboration is how you solve things. -Ole Nielsen #govdevops19
Decisions need to be made where information exists. Push decision-making down to teams wherever possible. -Ole Nielsen #govdevops19
The UK healthcare disaster cost £3,600,000,000. If a toilet flush takes 40 seconds, flushing that amount in £100 notes would take 46 years. -Ole Nielsen #govdevops19
A mark of a good team is when they can have fun with each other and take pride in their branding. [This team made their own logo.] -Ole Nielsen #govdevops19
Improvement to team morale and the effects that has on retention and recruitment can't be over-emphasized when it comes to the benefits of DevSecOps #govdevops19
"If you have to rely on your authority [to create change], you've already lost" -Ole Nielsen #govdevops19
The people who coined the term "DevOps" were firmly against codifying it in a similar way to the agile manifesto. They felt agile was being cargo-culted and being sold as snake oil. - @nigelkersten #govdevops19
"It hurts [me] when 'devops' is used as a cudgel to make people's lives worse in the name of 'lean' due to shrinking budgets" - @nigelkersten #govdevops19
"self-service is becoming a fundamental tenet of technology and certainly of DevOps, which forces you to think about the user" - @nigelkersten #govdevops19
"Stopping at 'that's a cultural problem' isn't enough. You wouldn't come across a bug and say 'oh, that's a computer problem. We need to get better at the computers.' You need to go a level deeper." - @nigelkersten #govdevops19
The longer I do technology in government, the more I think we need to jettison terms like "change management" and "software maintenance." There are principles and practices that should carry forward, but they have too much baggage to be worth keeping by name. #govdevops19
On second thought, doing a government technology conference right before honeymoon might have been a bad idea because now I'm FIRED UP #govdevops19
