Host Intro (Gene Kim)

Thank you so much, Dr. Andre Martin, for sharing that incredible advice with us. Thanks. And if you liked that, you can see more of him tomorrow on the employee engagement panel, along with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Dr. Christina Maslach tomorrow.

Back to you, Jeff.

Jeff Gallimore

All right. How was that first day, everybody? Yeah? Are you ready for a little bit more? Are you ready for a little bit more? Yeah. Sure.

Okay. All right. Well, we got a little bit of housekeeping before we get that something more. First, you've probably attended some amazing talks today. We want your feedback. The speakers want it. Gene and the programming committee want it. Please get that in. The speakers did a lot to put together the talks and share that with you. Give them the gift of sharing that feedback. Sharing is caring.

The session slides, all of them for today are available at Dropbox and in GitHub. Here are the links. They will also be in Slack.

Gene Kim

That's amazing.

Jeff Gallimore

It is amazing. Technology. Lots of pictures. Great. Okay.

All right. There were a lot of questions about where all the water is. Just a little bit of help. They are in a lot of the common areas, in the breakout rooms. They look like this. It's a little bit dark, but they're stationed around. They may be a little bit tricky to find because they're behind equipment or chairs or things like that, but they are in many of the breakout rooms and a lot of the common areas.

How was that DevOps Confession this morning? Woo. Yeah. The reason that we do these confessions is that they're meaningful, they're human, they're not as polished as what we often see up here on the stage, and it's those conversations that happen over drinks later that we don't always get to hear about. Share feedback on that confession in Slack if you want, and if you do have a DevOps Confession that you would like to share at some point, message Gene or Anne Perry in Slack.

We inspected and adapted on The Unicorn Project offer. We made it even simpler. So for those of you who are interested in it, you can go to the Barnes & Noble website, that's just bn.com. You can pre-order 10 or 25 copies of The Unicorn Project. Send the receipt to the email address up there. This would be another one to take a picture of, but I'll also put it in Slack, and then you can still get the bonuses. All of that merch that was included in the packages, we will still give you that, and you can see all of those at the URL that's on the slide.

Now, speaking of unicorns, this is the event that we have all been waiting for. It's been years in the making, Gene.

Gene Kim

Years in the making.

Jeff Gallimore

As soon as we break here, it's going to be in the expo hall, which is up the stairs and down the hallway. It is happening right after we break here. And the reason it is so significant and years in the making is it is coincident with the release of Gene's new book, The Unicorn Project.

You all are going to be the only people that have a copy of The Unicorn Project for another four weeks. The official release isn't until November 26th. You are going to be the envy of everybody that you work with because you're going to have that book. And it's sparkly, and it's amazing, and it's awesome, and you can just smile and be smug all day long for the next four weeks.

Now, we want to say a big thank you to CloudBees because they're the ones who are sponsoring this event tonight, and the fact that they are sponsoring this event is a huge signal about how much they care about this community. So give them a round of applause, please.

Now, the other thing I love about parties, especially for this event, is that we get together and we get to share, and we get to connect-

Gene Kim

Holy cow.

Jeff Gallimore

And we get to celebrate this community. Thank you. And we get to congratulate each other on all of our great accomplishments. Now, there's one person in particular that we should be congratulating most of all, and that's Gene Kim.

Gene Kim

Thank you. What, because I got done with the book? All right. I think we want to get some photos up here, right? Yeah?

Jeff Gallimore

You all are going to help us participate in this photo session.

Gene Kim

Oh.

Jeff Gallimore

We need to get... Yeah. We need to get a picture with the audience in the back, everybody wearing their unicorn horns. There will be a slide approval process from every conference from here on out. Marguerite, you want Gene to wear... Oh, you want Gene with a... Okay. Gene, you get the unicorn horn, too.

Gene Kim

All right.

Jeff Gallimore

I'll be right there with you. All right. How do we look? Good? Woo. Like the Martian, like the Fonz. Yeah. Thank you. This is so great.

Gene Kim

Thanks, Jeff.

Jeff Gallimore

All right. Thanks, Gene. I'm going to do the rest of the closing remarks like this. I think-

Gene Kim

Right on.

Jeff Gallimore

This is wonderful. Okay, so The Unicorn Project, I mentioned we've waited six years for this. It was six years ago that we first got our hands on The Phoenix Project. Now, you can get your book signed by Gene at the CloudBees booth back up in the expo hall at the party. Okay? Where are we going to get it? CloudBees. The CloudBees booth. Yes.

All right, now a final thought as we all go up and have fun at the unicorn party. Now, you've all learned a lot, I'm sure, today from all the great speakers, and the networking time, and each other, and all of those conversations and learning and things like that. But I think there's one more lesson that we need to take away with us that can be taught by donuts and croissants.

You say, "Jeff, I think you're crazy. I think that horn has got to your head." Pun? Come on. Okay, so here's the thought. When you're in there in the party, you're talking, you're standing in a group, think about and observe how you're standing in that group. Does your group resemble a donut, closed off so that nobody else can get in? Or is it opened up like a croissant, where other people can attach into that conversation? Yeah? Okay.

So the final lesson that I will send you off as you go up to the unicorn party is this. Help me out. Don't be a donut. All right, have a great time tonight.