Surviving & Thriving in a Big Company
Submitted to DevOpsDays Austin. Accepted. Given .
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Abstract, as submitted
If you work at a small, cool company, you can skip this talk. The rest of us in large, slow moving companies that rely on meetings, email, and inbox 2,000 to get the daily work done need some therapy and advice for thriving in big, "dumb" companies. I've worked in such companies and figured out how to thrive in the "back to back meetings" world we're taught to avoid. They’re big, slow moving, and seem to use Microsoft Office as their core innovation engine. I'll tell you my tactics.
To be given at DevOpsDays Austin 2017.
As presented at DevOpsDays Seattle 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhPvabN9HQ&feature=youtu.be
This is the text that went into the CFP form, kept as submitted - not a later rewrite of it. Talks get retitled and reworked between submission and stage, so what was actually delivered may differ.