Managing technologists is like herding cats. For two Notre Dame IT managers, the mandate to move library IT into the cloud within 3 years was akin to herding cats through a thunderstorm. This is the story of how we accept this challenge and are building a DevOps culture in spite of it.

Ian Alford has been working in the Information Technology field since June of 2003, when he joined the South Bend Community School Corporation as a temporary summer employee. He later joined the SBCSC

Rob Fox has been managing a software engineering team for the library since 2012 and has been writing software professionally since 1999.

Rob Fox has presented professionally in the past, but the