Terraform and Ansible look like gyroscopes compared to the build process of any modern software stack. We offered our dev teams a whole ass pizza party every time they had 10 green builds (on main) in a row. In three years we've paid it out once.
Terraform and Ansible look like gyroscopes compared to the build process of any modern software stack. We offered our dev teams a whole ass pizza party every time they had 10 green builds (on main) in a row. In three years we've paid it out once.
Ops people are not used to thinking in boundary conditions. Hell, devs forget half the time. That’s part of why people wanted to merge them in the first place. Get the right sorts of cynicism together in a room and make me something with a big green button an idiot can push while everyone is in a meeting.
Nothing demotivates people like a half assed reward. If you want something never to get done, offer a bad carrot. If you want only one thing to get done and nothing ever again, offer a good reward but then make the recipient fight you to get it. I thought pizza parties were the worst, and then I got an award that was announced but not delivered, and spent almost eight hours over the next month poking people to give me my goddamned prize. It became a second job and at the end I ended up resenting the entire experience.
Later at another job when we in theory had a generous reimbursement process that was actually a ton of red tape, I had flashbacks to that incident.
Also don't assume we don't know our coworkers, when they first got to 8 in a row the slack channel looked like the Twitch chat of a popular streamer.
We have the buy-in from management that if it happens every day then it happens every day.
We are planning to change up the food if it ever happens again, pizza party is just a good title