Gitlab Commit 2020

The benefits of DevOps come with a steep learning curve. At State Farm, we believe that in order to successfully transform and create a DevOps culture, we have to embrace the community model—the promotion of (and reliance on) knowledge sharing for both failures and successes, so that teams may learn from the past in order to succeed at scale.

The community model prevents unnecessary waste, enables architecture and code reuse, and allows teams to share best practices. It also enables cultural change. In this presentation I articulate the community model, share our lessons learned with three years experience operating within it, and explain why and how other organizations should embrace it.

You can learn more about the community model in this blog post I authored.