"LISA is where I find direction for evolving the my core professional skills."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is the place where industry best practices and cutting-edge research come together to advance system administration."
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University
"I use LISA to benchmark the SA activities in my company."
LISA '13 Attendee
"I keep coming back for the technical content and the personal networking opportunities. I attend for career development."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Information from LISA helps us push the envelope on automation and scaling, allowing a team of four to manage over 3000 Firefox build and test systems running 15 different operating systems."
Amy Rich, Manager of Release Engineering Operations at Mozilla
Evil Genius 101: Subversive Ways to Promote DevOps and Other Big Changes
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
You want to innovate: deploy new technologies such as configuration management, kanban, a wiki, or standardized configurations. Your coworkers don’t want change: they like the way things are. Therefore, they consider you evil. However you aren’t evil, you just want to make things better. Learn how to talk your team, managers and executives into adopting DevOps techniques and culture.
Who should attend:
Sysadmins and managers looking to influence the technology and culture of your organization.
Take back to work:
Help your coworkers understand and agree with your awesome ideas
Convince your manager about anything. Really.
Get others to trust you so they are more easily convinced
Deciding which projects to do when you have more projects than time
Turn the most stubborn user into your biggest fan
Make decisions based on data and evidence
Topics include:
DevOps "value mapping" exercise: Understand how your work relates to business needs.
So much to do! What should you do first?
How to sell ideas to executives, management, co-workers, and users.
Simple ways to display data to get your point across better.
