Bio
Michael Coté works at Pivotal on the advocate team. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, worked in corporate strategy and M&A at Dell in software and cloud, and was a programmer for a decade before all that. He does several weekly (mostly) tech podcasts, writes a column on Agile & DevOps for The Register, blogs at Cote.io, and is @cote in Twitter. He has two books: written Monolithic Transformation and Digital WTF.
If you’re interested, see some recordings of my past talks.
My Talks
Breaking the Business Bottleneck
There's only so much improvement DevOps make to IT before its hits a new bottleneck: the business. Business people don't show up as much as we'd like to take advantage of the DevOps awesome sauce. ...
Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
Nailing down “culture” is hard - the veritable nailing Jello to the wall. This talk will define what culture is and then cover several methods for leading culture change based on recent case studie...
Don't Try (Ignite Talk)
Most advice on improving is one idea: you should try harder to do the right thing. But, more often than not, you'll benefit by *not* trying. You might actually achieve your big ideas of change. Wha...
How to survive and thrive in a BigCo (Ignite Talk)
This talk will go over what I’ve learned working in large companies from my strange adventure working with a bunch of MBAs in corporate strategy at Dell, to working with large companies as an indus...
Metrics, beyond "it depends"
If you ask people for good DevOps and agile metrics, they tell you "it depends." They're right, though, it does depend. Still you need a framework for de-it-dependsing: how do you discover your spe...
Monolithic Transformation - changing the culture of large organizations, or, what to do when your meatware stinks
The cliche we all recite is that technology isn't the problem, culture is. Put another way, if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several d...
Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations
Developers don't need "services" from ops, they need products: continuously innovated platforms that evolve weekly. Once ops toil is removed, ops can focus on their customers' - development - needs...
Rethinking enterprise architecture for DevOps, agile, & cloud native organizations
As DevOps marauds through organizations who're becoming more cloud-native, the role of enterprise architects is changing. EA's helped oversee & govern the software life-cycle, but many of their tas...