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Keynote: Shut Your Laptop and Go to Sleep! by Colin McNamara, DevOps Expert

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Channel: The Linux Foundation · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Keynote: Shut Your Laptop and Go to Sleep! - Colin McNamara, DevOps Expert

A discussion on the effect sleep deprivation has on real world DevOps and Agile development teams. This talk will revolve around a real world experience that the SDN Development and DevOps teams encountered over the winter of 2015. We will cover the causes and effects, the points of measurement, how and why we resolved the issue as well as the results from the changes that were made.

In the end the hope is that you leave with a better understanding of the multiple dimensions sleep deprivation and burnout can affect your organization and / or project, and inspire you to make specific positive changes in yourself and your organization.

About Colin McNamara
Colin McNamara is a seasoned leader with 18 years experience with network, systems and application technologies. He was most recently the Director of the DevOps Practice for Dimension Data Americas where he managed an organization consisting of a DevOps team as well as an Agile software development team with a primary focus of SDN and open source cloud platforms for North and South America.

He is a firm believer in the evolving role that community, educational and corporate Open Source contribution have to play in todays technology marketplace. Through his efforts in his own company, the community and projects like OpenStack, OpenDaylight and others his goal is to define what next generation DevOps organizations look like.

He can be found occasionally posting his thoughts on things at http://www.colinmcnamara.com as well as posting pictures of him and his son having adventures across Austin and the world via his twitter account - @colinmcnamara

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