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The DBA and the Long GameSeeing (and moving) into the Future
@ZiaulM @Ziaul Mannan
Ziaul Mannan / Mike DonovanDatabase Architect/ Service Delivery Manager
Yale New Haven Health Services / Dbvisit Software
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Hello….
• Database Architect at Yale New Haven Health Services
• Oracle DBA for 18 years. Also, SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase DBA
• Epic certified Clarity and Data Warehouse Administrator
• 18+ Years Healthcare IT Experience
• Actively involved in charities aimed to provide quality education and healthcare to underprivileged children in developing countries
• Board member at Southern CT Science and Engineering Foundation (scsef.org) and Fair Director for Statewide Science Fair where High School students compete with their research work.
• @ZiaulM
Ziaul Mannan
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Hello…
Mike Donovan
■ Service & Online Delivery Manager for Dbvisit Software
■ @dbvisitmike
■ e. [email protected]
Makers of Oracle replication technologies:
Dbvisit Standby (physical)
Dbvisit Replicate (logical)
Past Experience:
■ Programmer
■ Technical Support Analyst
■ Oracle DBA
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State of a DBA over
time Career Change Options for DBAs
DBAs are Natural Leaders
The Psychology
of Conformity
Latent Leadership Potential of
the DBA
Linchpin Qualities-DBA as a Linchpin
Power of Mentoring
The Change Recipe:
Four Ideas
Thoughts from IOUG Community
on Leadership
Sample Model – A
DBA Career Ladder
Discussion
Session Plan
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The DBA over time
May come to feel:
• Totally complacent
• No need for a change in work patterns or skill sets
• Peculiar about the career as they get older
• The need to move up to the next level of responsibility
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Roles to which a DBA can switch
IT Disciplines:
• Data Governance
• Office of Information Security (OIS)
• Big Data
• Project Management Office (PMO)
• Internet of Things (IOT)
• Independent Consulting
• Jump the Ship..
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DBAs are Natural Leaders
Results of Timing
Wrong action / wrong time
= Disaster
Right action / wrong time =
Resistance
Wrong action / right time =
Mistake
Right action / right time =
Success
“One of the costs of
leadership are your own
rights.
As responsibility
grows, you lose the right
to think about
yourself.”
Laws of Leadership
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DBAs are Natural Leaders
Who is the Boss?
• Stress
• Burnout
• Crisis Management
• Putting out Fires
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DBAs are Natural Leaders
• Honesty• Ability to Delegate• Communication• Humility• Confidence
Who is a Leader?• Commitment• Positive Attitude• Creativity• Intuition• Inspire/Set Vision
Forbes Top 10 Qualities of a leader
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The Asch Conformity Experiment
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The Emerging ‘New World Order’
www.sethgodin.com
measuring value, valuing contribution
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Linchpin qualities
“Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. Like the small piece of hardware that keeps a wheel from falling off its axle, they may not be famous but they're indispensable.” (Seth Godin – Linchpin)
■exert emotional labor to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about
■invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos
■figure out what to do when there's no rule book
■delight and challenge their customers and peers
■love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art
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Challenge: the demands on a DBA
■ Technology
▪ Storage & networks
▪ Virtualization
▪ Cloud
■ People
▪ More users & interactions
▪ Administrator
■ Business
▪ Conflicting demands – both guardian and gatekeeper of data!
▪ Cost cutting - more with less
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Latent Leadership Potential of the DBA
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Leading out - a better response from the DBA
The solution – seeing the role in a different light:
■The DBA role as a craft
■Database Administration an art, its practitioners, Artisans.
Core skills + communicativeness + creativity + resourcefulness
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Getting Practical - Leadership is Influence
Some practical suggestions:
■ 1. Speak
■ 2. Write
■ 3. Know your Business
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Speak and Write
What do you really know until you share it.
Speak:
•Take a course
•Host a webinar for your company
•Regional Oracle user groups
•Local meetups – can’t find one, start one!
At the very least, network.
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Speak and Write
Write:
■ Run your company Wiki/FAQ
■ Start your own blog (tips and tricks)
■ Answer forum questions
The payoff:
■ Sharing of knowledge
■ Feeling connected
■ Seizing opportunities
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Know your Business
All about seeing the bigger picture
Tune your contribution:
■Take a business course
■Put dollar values on improving efficiencies
■Organize tech Q&A sessions - e.g. “Ask the DBA Thursday”
Setting up a win/win situation
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Payback
Benefits of this new vision of the role of the DBA:
■ Future-proofing outlook
■ Exposure to a cross section of business units & functions
■ Ability to exert influence & lead out beyond the role
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A Mentor’s Influence
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Influence a leader - influence all that they lead
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The Change Recipe: Four Ideas
Manage the Capacity Trap
Beat Pluralistic Ignorance
Beware of the “Curse of
Knowledge”
Escalate Commitment to
Positive Outcomes
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IOUG Have Spoken before…
Rich NiemiecExceptional Leadership: Be the Uncommon Leader! IOUG 2005
Move your Career from Tech Leader to CIO, CFO or CEO. Collaborate 2013
Steve LemmeStarted to float an idea about DBAs evolving role in 2003-2005, calling it DIA - Database Infrastructure Architect
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IOUG Have Spoken before…
Maria AndersonValuable Collaborate 2013 presentation entitled “Leadership: not just for managers”
Michael S. Abbey
Helpful Collaborate 2012 presentation "Measuring Seniorityby Years in the Business (I think not!)"
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IOUG Have Spoken before…
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Sample Model - DBA Career LadderPosition IT Background
(Suggested)Usual Background Career Trend
DBA Intern Studying in any IT discipline or completed Tertiary Education in an IT discipline
N/A
DBA-Tech 2 yrs. as DBA Intern or worked in any branch of IT. Completed Tertiary Education in an IT discipline
Help Desk, Desktop Support, Network/Storage/Server Tech
Database Administrator I 3-5 yrs. as Programmer, Analyst, min. 2 yrs. As DBA-Tech
DBA-Tech, DSS Developer, SQL Programmer.
Database Administrator II 2-4 yrs. as DBA I or 4-6 yrs. as DBA Tech DBAs
Senior Database Administrator 4 yrs. as DBA II or 6-8 yrs. as DBA Tech. DBAs
Database Architect 10+ yrs. as DBA DBAs
Principal Database Architect 10+ yrs. as DBA, 2 yrs. as Database Architect. DBAs
Manager of Database Administration and Infrastructure Services
10+ yrs. as DBA, 2 yrs. as Database Architect. Completed Post- Graduate studies in an IT discipline. Community involvement in Science and Technology. Affiliation with leading Technical/Engineering Organization(s).
DBA
Director, Database Administration and Infrastructure Services
15 yrs. as DBA, 2yrs. as Manager of Database/3yrs. as Principal/Database Architect. Completed Graduate studies in an IT discipline. Community involvement in Science and Technology.
OR
15 yrs. as DBA, 2 yrs. as Database Architect. Graduate studies in an IT discipline. Executive Education in ‘Management and Leadership’ discipline. Community involvement in Science and Technology. Affiliation with leading Technical/Engineering/Project Management Organization(s).
DBA
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Sample Model - DBA Career Ladder
Position IT Background (Suggested)
Usual Background/ Career Trend
DBA Intern Studying in any IT discipline or completed Tertiary Education in an IT discipline
N/A
DBA-Tech 2 yrs. as DBA Intern or worked in any branch of IT. Completed Tertiary Education in an IT discipline
Help Desk, Desktop Support, Network/Storage/Server Tech
Database Administrator I 3-5 yrs. as Programmer, Analyst, min. 2 yrs. As DBA-Tech
DBA-Tech, DSS Developer, SQL Programmer.
Database Administrator II
2-4 yrs. as DBA I or 4-6 yrs. as DBA Tech
DBAs
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Sample Model - DBA Career Ladder
Position IT Background (Suggested)
Usual Background/ Career Trend
Senior Database Administrator
4 yrs. as DBA II or 6-8 yrs. as DBA Tech.
DBAs
Database Architect 10+ yrs. as DBA DBAs
Principal Database Architect
10+ yrs. as DBA, 2 yrs. as Database Architect.
DBAs
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Sample Model - DBA Career Ladder
Position IT Background (Suggested)
Usual Background/ Career Trend
Manager of Database Administration and Infrastructure Services
10+ yrs. as DBA, 2 yrs. as Database Architect. Completed Post- Graduate studies in an IT discipline. Community involvement in Science and Technology. Affiliation with leading Technical/Engineering Organization(s).
DBA
Director, Database Administration and Infrastructure Services
15 yrs. as DBA, 2 yrs. as Manager of Database/2 yrs. as Principal Database Architect. Completed Graduate studies in an IT discipline. Community involvement in Science and Technology.
OR
15 yrs. as DBA, 3 yrs. as Database Architect. Graduate studies in an IT discipline. Executive Education in ‘Management and Leadership’ discipline. Community involvement in Science and Technology. Affiliation with leading Technical/Engineering/Project Management Organization(s).
DBA
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Where to From Here?
Feedback: let’s build this out
together
Inspire the next
generation
Possibilities
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References
■ The invisible gorilla – Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
■ Asch conformity experiments - Solomon Asch 1962
■ How You show up: Making and Propagating Change – Nelson P
Repenning, Associate Professor, MIT Sloan
■ Exceptional Leadership- Be the Uncommon Leader! - Rich Niemiec, ROLTA
TUSC
■ Identifying and Developing Leaders - Lions Clubs International, Oak Brook, IL
60523-8842
■ The Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell
■ Mentoring - Bobb Biehl
■ The making of a leader - Frank Damazio
■ Linchpin Manifesto from Seth Godin
■ http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/
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State of a DBA over
time Career Change Options for DBAs
DBAs are Natural Leaders
The Psychology
of Conformity
Latent Leadership Potential of
the DBA
Linchpin Qualities-DBA as a Linchpin
Power of Mentoring
The Change Recipe:
Four Ideas
Thoughts from IOUG Community
on Leadership
Sample Model – A
DBA Career Ladder
Discussion
Keep the
Conversation Going!
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