Bio
Michael Coté focuses studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Monolithic Transformation and The Business Bottleneck cover this topic. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. Cf. cote.io, and is @cote in Twitter. Texas Forever!
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...
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...
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...
The blinking cursor, or, kubernetes for developers, architects, & other people who aren't supposed to use it (k8s4devs)
"I got kubernetes up and running and all I got was this blinking cursor!" Drawing on case studies, you'll get a brief introduction to what kubernetes is from a developer's perspective and then guid...
The Enterprise DevOps Whimper - surviving the trough of disillusionment
When it comes to applying DevOps, most enterprises are facing bottlenecks that are too often ignored, or assumed solved, by the DevOps community. Based on case studies, this talk discusses those bo...