If it's BS work, have the BS-artist do it - Using AI for Bureaucratic Toil Removal
Submitted to DevOpsDays Austin 2023 on . Accepted . Given .
- Level
- Introductory and overview
- Length
- Session
- Tags
- culture
Abstract, as submitted
There’s a lot of bureaucratic toil you need to deal with when you’re improving your software culture, tools, and methods inside large organizations. You know: DevOps, digital transformation, and stuff. There’s also just the daily corporate nonsense you need to deal with. This talk will explore using AIs to help reduce bureaucratic toil like: keeping up with status meetings and weekly reports, dealing with glacial-speed governance, persuading people to embrace new ideas like pair programming, vision and strategy, writings tories and managing backlogs, transforming HR policy, working with finance, dealing with the ticket-wall, and more. You’ll see “live prompting” with ChatGPT, even from audience suggestions. Come experiment with using AI to cut through the kind of toil that’s keeping your organization in Westrum’s Bureaucratic column.
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Notes to the CFP reviewers
Not part of the public abstract - this is what the program committee saw and the audience never does.
VMware is being weird about budgets so far. I'm 80% sure I could get travel approved, but it'd be cool if there was support for paying for travel in case I need it.