Suddenly we’re in DevOps territoryĭevOps offers an advanced perspective of effective war rooms, enabled by highly-effective APM solutions that measure user experience and business transactions, most commonly for applications built on Java and. These connections must also extend to embrace development and business stakeholders. The opposite of the war room must leverage technology to foster collaboration, creating ongoing connections between operational disciplines such as network, server, storage, etc., where convergence has already blurred traditional lines. Is yesterday’s war room today’s “digital services center”? The author suggests yesterday’s war room could be transformed into a “digital services center ” I’ll borrow that term temporarily. It emphasizes that success is not solely about technology (although technology is a foundation), but also about cooperative teams with a focus on optimizing business outcomes. It’s not practical.Īn APM Digest article calls out a new war room paradigm in the context of digital and IT transformation initiatives. The opposite of war room isn’t “peace room”. They’re frustratingly inefficient due in part to the fact that participants have isolated perspectives of service quality, focusing on domain health and performance accurate, perhaps, but not informative.Īs a result, vendors love tag lines that shout “The end of the war room!” implying you can avoid these exercises if you just buy their stuff. War rooms are rife with finger-pointing, with significant negative impact on revenue.
We know that war rooms, at least in their commonly understood sense, are reactive exercises in fighting unexpected problems, sapping critical IT personnel resources. If I may summarize: Peace is not passive it must be a proactive pursuit. It also offers a quote that I’ll return to shortly: “The more we are connected, the more irrelevant war becomes.” Its gist is that war is destructive therefore, its opposite must embody a constructive concept, and the article quite effectively points to creativity as a good answer. The article has nothing to do with IT – at least on the surface. This led me to a Forbes article called “ The Opposite of War Isn’t Peace, It’s Creation” (which takes its title from the hit musical “Rent”). So I did what most of us would do and turned to Google. More to the point: peace may be the absence of war, but it is not necessarily the opposite. The glaringly obvious “peace room” didn’t cut it, in part because it conjured a vision of people sitting around relaxing. Since the term war room carries a negative connotation, I thought I’d look for a more constructive alternative. Among other insights, the authors recommend convening frequent war rooms “…to encourage cross-team exploration” of performance data. Why? I made a note a few months ago while reading a Gartner paper extolling the virtues of wire data, specifically as applied to the modern data center’s availability and performance management disciplines. Last week, I was trying to come up with a term for the opposite of war room.
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