A Fool with a Tool: The Dangers of Ignoring Culture by Overfocusing on Tools

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Tim Guay

Agile + DevOps East 2019

Summary:

Many organizations ignore culture and overfocus on picking and implementing the right tools. However, these tools have underlying cultural assumptions. If the current culture does not support these assumptions, then automation will only have limited success, or even fail altogether.

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