Building Stories around DevOps Mentorship
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This document discusses different approaches to mentorship: 1) The "Die Hard" model of diving straight into problems, which provides experiential learning but is pairing-heavy. 2) The "Karate Kid" model of learning fundamentals in modules, which is repeatable but provides less experiential knowledge. 3) The preferred "Rocky Balboa" model of setting an end goal and modularizing knowledge needed to achieve it, providing the best of experiential and repeatable learning. Effective mentorship requires supporting characters, goals for growth, and demonstrating character development over multiple sessions to find meaning and increase satisfaction.
Building Stories around DevOps Mentorship
- 1. Building a story around Ops Mentorship @JohnContad
- 2. i. Foreword: “What is the meaning of all of this?”
- 3. ii. Prologue: Stories are a means of providing context to our lives.
- 4. ii. Prologue: Stories are a means of providing context to our lives.
- 5. “What is the story?” = “What is the purpose?”
- 6. Part I: The Structure
- 7. Approach 1: The “Die Hard” Model
- 8. Approach 1: “Fix this.”
- 9. Approach 1: The “Die Hard” Model • “Sink or swim.” • Characterized by diving straight into problems or broken things • Most often the first approach
- 10. Approach 1: The “Die Hard” Model Pros: • Needs little prep time • Very hands on, kinesthetic • High returns of experiential knowledge Cons: • Pairing-heavy • Monolithic in nature • Takes a while to understand the full context • Provides slowest learning speed
- 11. Approach 2: The “Karate Kid” Model
- 12. Approach 2: “One thing at a time.”
- 13. Approach 2: The “Karate Kid” Model • “Let’s learn the fundamentals first.” • Learning in modules • Overcorrection after trying the first approach
- 14. Approach 2: The “Karate Kid” Model Pros: • Repeatable • Can be assigned to schedules • Can structure so it’s self-driven Cons: • Low on experiential knowledge • Takes time to prepare • Provides longest time to overall context
- 15. Approach 3: The “Rocky Balboa” Model
- 16. Approach 3: The “Rocky Balboa” Model
- 17. Approach 3: The “Rocky Balboa” Model • “This is what we’re going to build. This is the knowledge you’ll need.” • Modularized, while maintaining overall context • Anchored by an end-goal, or artifact
- 18. Approach 3: The “Rocky Balboa” Model Pros: • Best of both worlds (repeatability, experiential knowledge) • Provides the fastest understanding of how things tie together • Structured, but modularized enough that it’s flexible Cons: • Takes the longest time to prepare
- 19. Part II: The Components
- 20. A Story Needs: Supporting Characters Mentors • Not about technical ability, but about experience • Not steering, but directional advice • Not just about teaching, but learning
- 21. A Story Needs: A Goal • A thing you can take home and improve • A skill you can demonstrate • A person you could be
- 22. A Story Needs: Character Growth • Clear indication of parts that have improved, parts that need work • Indication of increments • A “moment of proving”
- 23. Session 1
- 24. Session 2
- 25. Session 3
- 27. “What is the meaning of all of this?”
- 29. The Hedonic Treadmill “…adopting "non-zero sum" goals, those which enrich one's relationships with others and with society as a whole (i.e. family-oriented and altruistic goals), increase the level of subjective well-being.” - Bruce Headey (A Revision of Set-Point Theory)
- 30. Outcomes • Higher levels of satisfaction • Improved communication skills • Increased ability to think in terms of long term goals vs short-term outcomes
- 31. Part III: Denouement Two questions.