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DOES 2015

#DOES 2015 was great.  The speakers did a excellent job of talking about more than DevOps but how they are growing their DevOps through their company.  Capital One was awesome.  They showed a video of their internal engineering conference.  Disney brought a great message of embedding DevOps across their organization with a Star Wars theme.  They were actually a late add to the schedule and rocked it.  The PowerShell guy brought a great message of never giving up and timing for culture changing ideas at Microsoft.  Netflix had another great culture talk.  I really think they may be the best DevOps culture in IT.

It is just inspiring to see how large enterprises are spreading DevOps across their IT.  They all have similar stories.
1.  They started with a small team or group.
2. They got senior leadership buy in.
3. They focused on the people.  They had summits, internal DevOps days, Dojos, training and what ever it takes to spread the information across their organizations.  They keep building their community at their Enterprise.

To me this really hit home.  I know how close I was to missing DevOps principles.  To scale DevOps across your IT, you have to tell everyone what they don't know and give them a way to learn or you will continue struggle with building a DevOps culture.

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