Thread by @tleam

#chaosday19 talking rough consensus.

#chaosday19 : talking about getting to be the 'first kid picked' for a sports team when it comes to tech. What's prohibiting us from being a better company? Lots of re-doing things over and over. Multiple implementations of monitoring tools for instance.

#chaosday19 : Comcast has modelled their process after ITF. "We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough concensus"

#chaosday19 : Implement Architecture Working Groups to tackle a business problem like "We want to spend less money on Splunk". Pick two chairs, establish a slack channel, and a github repo.

#chaosday19 : Solution isn't coming from the 'architects' [ed: yay no ivory towering, this is awesome] it's instead being made by people who care about it.

#chaosday19 : [ed: personal experience in similar situations has been 'people who care about x' tend to care about a lot of things, tend to be extroverts, and tend to be the louder groups which can lead to inherent biasing so maintaining this model can be tough]

#chaosday19 : Architecture working groups provide context and recommendations. So far this has been successful - good process for moving forward, shows employees that they care.

#chaosday19 : So far they've made a few key decisions like CI/CD (@concourseci is used), Monioring (@PrometheusIO is used), logging (elk stack is used)

#chaosday19 : Even after a decision is made it's still important to do a lot of marketing to convince the broader org to buy in. /fin