[Baylisa] Puppet Labs is conducting a release management study - Interested in participating?

[Eric Sorenson]

For a little more colour to this request -- Puppet is super interested in finding out how sysadmins and other operations/devops folk go about their day-to-day life moving changes into production. There's obviously a huge variation in the toolchain, methodology and pain points across the spectrum of organisations faced with the common problem of managing change. This kind of "sit down with real people getting work done" research is pretty common in other disciplines but (AFAIK) fairly new to the operations space; although it might seem like kind of a weird imposition, the sessions I've been fortunate enough to see have been actually quite gratifying for the people involved.  So please, if this is at all in your wheelhouse, sign up and participate.

Full disclosure, after fifteen years as a Bay Area sysadmin I moved to Portland to work on the open source team at Puppet Labs and have a professional interest as well as a personal delight in building tools for sysadmins that don't suck.

- Eric Sorenson - N45.52619 W122.6792  - http://twitter.com/ahpook  -


On Apr 27, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Robert Novak <rnovak at indyramp.com> wrote:

> Our friends at Puppet Labs asked us to pass this along... if you're
> qualified and interested, please follow up with them directly.
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> Puppet Labs is conducting on-location research visits in the San Francisco
> area April 30th and May 2nd.
> 
> We're looking for someone involved in the release management process for
> application code or configuration management. No Puppet experience is
> required. Your participation will have a direct impact on our future
> products.
> 
> Site visit details:
> 
> Length: 1/2 day (4 hours)
> Location: Your office in San Francisco, CA
> What we’ll be doing:
> 2-3 observers will be shadowing your release management activities and
> daily tasks. *This site visit is not intended to hinder your productivity.
> At the end of the visit, we’ll wrap up with a few background questions.
> No preparation on your part is required.
> Everything shared in this visit will be kept confidential, and used
> strictly for internal research at Puppet Labs.
> As thanks, you'll receive a $200 Amazon gift card, choice of Phoenix
> Project or Puppet books and Puppet Test Pilot t-shirt.
> 
> Interested? Please fill out a few quick questions
> https://docs.google.com/a/puppetlabs.com/forms/d/10PsDhwiyVkgzHfzVuX1JHscNxgJGk5crrR5S2Z3r1IY/viewform
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Research at Puppet Labs
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