ChatOps  for  Developers  

Lee  Fox  

May  2,  2016  

What  is  ChatOps?  

ChatOps  and  Operations  

•  Spin  up/down  servers  

•  Look  at  performance  metrics  

•  Deploy  code  

•  Grab  log  files  

•  Update  configurations  

ChatOps:    Not  Just  for  Operations  

•  Developers  

•  Office  Managers  

•  QA  Engineers  

•  Scrum  Masters  

•  Customer  Service  

Code  Reviews  

Sprint  Work  

Keeping  Abreast  of  News  

Finding  Documentation  

Manage  Sprints  

Sprint  Sizing  

Report  on  Sprints  

Ordering  Food  

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/future-­‐work-­‐ordering-­‐taco-­‐bell-­‐slack/  

Human  Resources  Questions  

Birthday  Announcements  

Customer  Service  

Take  Surveys  

Look  for  Questions  

•  Questions  with  static  answers  

•  Questions  that  are  annoying  to  answer  

Look  for  Repetition  

•  What  tasks  are  done  again  and  again?  

•  What  tasks  could  other  people  kick  off  if  they  

only  had  a  way  to  do  it?  

Look  for  Annoyance  

•  Find  tasks  that  torque  you  off.  

•  Find  things  you  hate  to  do.  

Look  for  Laziness  

•  Look  for  your  laziest  developer  

•  Give  him/her  a  ChatOps  framework  

•  Make  him/her  do  all  of  the  things  you  just  

identified