Session Name: Never Tell Me the Odds: Navigating Organizational Politics
Where there are people, there are politics. Despite negative views many engineers have of office politics, they play an important role in our organizations. Politics is how we, as groups of people, make decisions. If we want to influence decision-making in our organizations, then we need to understand organizational politics. When we talk about devops, we talk about building a culture where we collaborate across boundaries in our organizations. To get to this point, we often need to change the way that our organizations make decisions across these silos. It's not just culture that we need to impact! The ever-increasing complexity of the software systems that we build and maintain require an increasing amount of joint activity and better tools for collaborative decision-making in our organizations.
In this talk, I’ll discuss:
- How to identify political structures and learn how decisions get made in your organization
- Common political structures in technical organizations
- Tools for healthy collective decision-making
Speaker Bio:
Joshua Zimmerman has been in tech for the past decade, playing a variety of roles ranging from helpdesk support to SRE manager. Joshua is passionate about creating sustainable platforms for applications and in his spare time, he takes pictures of his cat and co-organizes the Madison DevOps meetup in non-pandemic times.
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