John Willis
Senior Director, Red Hat
John Willis is the Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat.
Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in February 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps An Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the Devops movement. John is the author of 7 IBM =Redbooks. He is also the co-author of the Devops Handbook and Beyond the Phoenix Project along with author Gene Kim.
Presentations
Operationalism is based on the intuition that we do not know the meaning of a concept unless we have a method of measurement for it. Percy Williams Bridgman coined operationalism in his book The Logic of Physics (1927). Bridgman's work, specifically around an operational definition, heavily influenced Deming's work. In Deming's New Economics, he said, “An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into the measurement of some kind.” I'll discuss Dr. Deming's work in this presentation and explain how he would have viewed standard DevSecOps metrics.