{"id":16018,"date":"2015-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3371437"},"modified":"2015-07-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T00:00:00","slug":"empathy-skills-for-devops-by-scriptrock-devopssummit-devops-containers-microservices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/empathy-skills-for-devops-by-scriptrock-devopssummit-devops-containers-microservices\/","title":{"rendered":"Empathy Skills for\u00a0DevOps By @ScriptRock | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Containers #Microservices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We think we\u2019re doing the whole DevOps thing right \u2014 new hires can deploy on day one, Travis CI is humming along, and we own the code we ship. But then something breaks, something doesn\u2019t go according to plan, tempers flare up, and all that warm, fuzzy collaboration seems to evaporate. What\u2019s going on? What happened to #HugOps?<\/p>\n<p>A large part of software engineering doesn\u2019t involve code at all\u2014 it\u2019s talking and collaborating with our teammates. Soft skills are harder to measure and quantify than performance or reliability, but they\u2019re just as important\u2014 and while we\u2019ll readily spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on books, courses, and training to improve our software skills, companies rarely invest in creating the culture of empathy and compassion that was behind DevOps in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Empathy works great\u2026until it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s easy to be compassionate and collaborative when stuff is going great and everyone\u2019s having an easy time, but it\u2019s stressful, high-stakes situations that show you whether you\u2019ve actually built a culture of empathy.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at some specific strategies and tactics teams can use to improve organizational empathy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3371437\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think we&rsquo;re doing the whole DevOps thing right &mdash; new hires can deploy on day one, Travis CI is humming along, and we own the code we ship. But then something breaks, something doesn&rsquo;t go according to plan, tempers flare up, and all that warm, fuzzy collaboration seems to evaporate. What&rsquo;s going on? What happened to #HugOps?<\/p>\n<p>A large part of software engineering doesn&rsquo;t involve code at all&mdash; it&rsquo;s talking and collaborating with our teammates. Soft skills are harder to measure and quantify than performance or reliability, but they&rsquo;re just as important&mdash; and while we&rsquo;ll readily spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on books, courses, and training to improve our software skills, companies rarely invest in creating the culture of empathy and compassion that was behind DevOps in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Empathy works great&hellip;until it doesn&rsquo;t. It&rsquo;s easy to be compassionate and collaborative when stuff is going great and everyone&rsquo;s having an easy time, but it&rsquo;s stressful, high-stakes situations that show you whether you&rsquo;ve actually built a culture of empathy.<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s look at some specific strategies and tactics teams can use to improve organizational empathy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3371437\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16019,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018\/revisions\/16019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}