Tactical whimsey injection: Leveraging fun to get work done

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Presented at DevOpsDaysVancouver 2019 by

Tiffany Longworth

Who doesn’t love a good time? Besides The Man™, of course. But what if there was Business Value© in cat gifs and Synergy® in LOLs? In this talk, I’ll outline four ways you can leverage levity to Get Stuff Done℠.SPOILERSAs long as you’re actually accomplishing stuff, people just plain like working with fun folks (this is the easy one)Embedding fun links incentivizes readers to read everything (or form-filler-out-ers to fill out your survey)Saying “Please” and “Thank you” with cute animals gets you better support serviceBlowing bubbles engages your parasympathetic nervous system (the anti-fight-or-flight response)!