Episode 5 - Sustainability begins with Design

Design transforms the human experience with technology - including the experience for Site Reliability Engineers. And enduring Sustainable results are only achieved when we consider Sustainability in the entire solution life cycle beginning with Design.

In this episode, I have a conversation with Erin Buonomo, Executive Director of Design and Chris Hammond, Distinguished Designer of IBM Sustainability Software on how the SRE discipline can embrace Design for a better experience for Site Reliability Engineers and clients we support - as well as how we partner up to achieve our Sustainability goals.

Erin & Chris encourages the SRE practitioners to introduce ourselves into dialogs everyday. To be that extra leg on the stool, to not only share our perspectives of achieving Sustainable goals, but also to educate others of the practice of SRE. The goal is to achieve "Sustainability Consciousness" - where it is part of everyday decisions, how we do business and part of our culture.

Things to listen for:

• [03:37 - 04:58] Reason for having the conversation between SRE & Design
• [05:40 - 09:23] Meaning of Sustainability to Chris & Erin
• [09:49 - 15:48] AS-IS state
• [16:06 - 21:09] How we get to the TO-BE state
• [21:33 - 25:36] How do we know we have arrived at this future?
• [25:59 - 28:57] How SRE can partner w/ Design
• [32:35 - 34:55] Erin & Chris' ingredient & recipe to embrace design for a sustainable future