BTDConf 2015: The Social Tester
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Slides from my Social Tester talk at BTDConf 2015
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BTDConf 2015: The Social Tester
- 1. Peter Van de Voorde The Social Tester
- 2. Peter Van de Voorde Schoonaarde, Belgium ALM Consultant www.petervandevoorde.com @pvdevoor
- 27. Recap 1. Hunt for Flow. 2. Autonomy – Mastery – Purpose 3. Invest in yourself. 4. Be assertive, not aggressive 5. Get out of your comfort zone (don’t be afraid) 6. You have 2 ears and 1 mouth, use them. 7. Choose door number 4. 8. Follow your heart and make your own way. @pvdevoor #socialtester
- 42. Recap 1. Invest in People. 2. Find your own incentives. 3. Build a scaffolding for your people. 4. Be a Leader, Not a Boss. 5. Strive for more than mediocrity. 6. Do the beer test. 7. Keep diversity in mind. @pvdevoor #socialtester
- 49. Peter Van de Voorde The Social Tester
Notas del editor
- This is not a talk about facebook
- Or twitter
- Or even google+ Although these companies do trive on social developers
- This is a talk about motivation, about people and about teams In his book Drive Daniel Pink talks about Motivation and how there are 3 kinds of motivation. Motivation 1.0 Motivation 2.0 Motivation 3.0
- Motivation 1.0 need to survive, find shelter and procreate
- Motivation 2.0 : carrot and stick You get a reward if you do good, you get punished if you do bad. This has been the way management has been working since the industrial revolution. And it has proven enormously effecient for doing simple repetitive tasks. But it’s based on extrinsic motivation : management assume that people will not do anything unless they are either rewarded or punished The last 20 years this has changed enormously. Wikipedia vs MS encarta..
- Motivation 3.0 Autonomy (Time, Team, Tools) Mastery (Strive for mastery) Purpose (we need a purpose bigger than ourselves)
- Drie vragen aan het publiek : Who here is a developer, please raise your hand. Who here is a manager, please raise your hand. Now, who here can honestly say he or she is happy? A social developer is a person who isn’t afraid to challenge himself and the people around him. What’s a Social Developer? A social developer is a person who : - Wants to teach - wants to learn - wants to strive for mastery in his life - wants to play - wants to feel part of something bigger (wants to have a purpose) - wants to be in the zone and go with the flow. -
- Say hello to my wonderfull little boy Leander. For me this pictures says more than a thousand words, the joy and wonder it expresses makes me happy and glad to be alive. We all used to be like this little bundle of joy, when did we loose the wonder? When did we loose the joy in our live? We lost it at school, we lost it at work. Now let’s come together and find it anew. Don’t be afraid to search for you happiness and the happiness of those around you!
- Flow is something children have in heaps. Flow is that moment when everything comes together and it simply works. Wether your working on a new api, a new mobile application or simply playing an instrument or running 5 miles. Flow is what drives people, moments of flow is what we need to become a better person and a better social developer. So where did we lose this capacity to find flow? Did we loose it at school? Or maybe at home? Did we start thinking that doing certain things are childish and work should not be fun, it should be hard unfun labour.
- Strive for autonomy because in autonomy lies the road to more flow moments Autonomy in team Autonomy in time Autonomy in task Autonomy in technique
- Strive for mastery, but now that mastery is something you can never achieve. This truely is about the way you travel in your pursuit and not about the goal and destination. You always want to become better After every step you’ve taken you’ll evaluate what you did and how you can improve it. Learn from everything you do And never be content but always strive to better yourself
- But ofcourse, getting autonomy and trying for mastery is only possible if you have a purpose. Finding your purpose can be difficult, but maybe this can help : Think about your funeral and what people should be saying about you. Think about how you want to be remembered
- An investment in yourself is the best investment you can make. It’s the one investment that will last a lifetime. For example : start playing an instrument, start loosing weight You will become a more fun person, not only at work but more importantly at home.
- Be Assertive not Aggresive Assertiveness : All of the previous isn't possible if you don't start doing things. Just do it Nike would say :) How can you start making these changes? Learn how to be assertive, learn how to express your opinion and believe in the value of your own opinion. Don't become somebody who only listens to himself, listen to other people's opinions and share your own with them. Believe in your own worth and in the worth of others. Be assertive not aggressive, watch out for any signs you're become aggressive, because that would undo all the good that you have done. These are signs that you are too aggressive : - You start raising your voice in a discussion. - You feel like everybody is always wrong and you are the only one who's right - People start ignoring you, and when you ask why they will answer evasively - You feel anger and even rage when something doesn't go right.
- Don't be afraid, life is to short! : life every day as if it where your last, someday you'll be right! Or if you don't like this saying : life every day as if it was your first in this world, what would you do and where would you go? Don't be afraid of failure, failure doesn't exist, it's just a lesson we haven't learned yet. Have faith in yourself and your ability, find your purpose and search for Mastery. Don't be afraid of your manager, he's just a person like you!
- You have 2 ears and one mouth, use them… Listen to people, train yourself to actually listen to them instead of already thinking about your reply. Listen to people’s views, be interested and ask questions. Who know you might actually learn something
- When you've got a problem at work you've got several easy options : Don't say anything about it, just keep on doing your work as best as you can. But in time this problem will continue to grow and you'll loose your focus and your enthusiasm. Eventually it will become a loose-loose situation for both you and your company. Leave your company and go do the same job at a different company. This might work, but you will eventually run into the same problem. Remember : the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Leave your company and go do a totally different kind of job. This might be the solution for all your problems and is actually not such a bad option if you really hate your current job. Just be sure to watch out that the problem you've run away from isn't coming back in another form in your new job. And you've got one harder, but eventual more satisfying option: Talk about it with your manager and your team. Be open about it, try thinking about solutions and not just search for blame. Don't go running from the problem, face it! You might be surprised about the results, it could be that others share the problem. Or that they had no idea about it but want to help you fix it. And in the event that you can't fix the problem, you can still choose one of the 3 earlier options. But at least you'll know that you've tried.
- Management is People Too!
- Manager is a terrible word, it makes us think of people who will tell us what to do, when to do it and how to do it. Without taking our wishes, insights, experience into consideration. For most of us to manage means to micro manage, to think that those who you are supposed to manage wouldn't do anything if you don't continuously controlled them and punished them if they did something wrong. (The carrot and the stick approach) Daniel Pink explains this wonderful in his book 'Drive', he tells us that this type of management has been invented in the late 19th century and hasn't changed much since then. But our work has changed massively. From doing simple repetitive tasks we've gone to doing creative problem solving tasks without an easy step-to-step solution. Why hasn't management kept up? Why do we still need to explain each and every thing we do? Pink tells us that management can also be about creating environments where people can work without control, where people can become more creative in their search for solutions. It can supporting instead of controlling. Who would want to have a manager who asks what you want, how you want to do it and how he can help you accomplish that goal? Most good things come in threes and so does this one. To motivate people we have to help them achieve : - Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose
- Don't be afraid, life is to short! : life every day as if it where your last, someday you'll be right! Or if you don't like this saying : life every day as if it was your first in this world, what would you do and where would you go? Don't be afraid of failure, failure doesn't exist, it's just a lesson we haven't learned yet. Have faith in yourself and your ability, find your purpose and search for Mastery. Don't be afraid of your manager, he's just a person like you!
- The road ahead : how to get there? The road isn’t set, it isn’t a paved 10-lane highway, it’s a road each and everyone of us will have to make for our own. My road will not be your road, your road will not be mine. They might cross but we will have to find the way ourselves. If you follow somebody else’s road you’ll run the risk of starting to living somebody elses life! Don’t be afraid… to create your own way in life!
- What isn’t a team? I always heare a team should consist of people who are all capable of replacing eachother, people should be interchangeable so a team will never lose some critical knowledge or so nobody will become a bottle-neck. In a team like that people will strive to be exactly alike, and not to excel in anything. In a team like that the best you can hope for is mediocrity. Don’t be afraid to have some real different personalities, with some real different skills in your team, I’ll give you 2 examples where very different personalities with very different skills come together and become more than the sum of their parts and skills.
- The A-team is a prime example, 4 very different individuals who all have their own special skills : Murdock who’s the people and nut-job BA who’s the muscle Face who’s the pretty boy that can get you anything And ofcourse Hannibal who loves it when a plan comes together. 4 very different characters, who all are generaly trained as special forces, but have different capabilities that once combined make them excell as a team.
- The avengers : a team of superhero’s in their own right who when placed together will become even better.
- Build some scaffolding in your company so your people can explore new incentives, find their purpose and start aiming for mastery. Get to know how to start being autonomous in team, task, technique and time
- Invest in yourself and others
- Invest
- Inspire
- I hope I’ve planted a little seed into your hearts and minds that one day might grow into a mighty tree. I can only give you one more advice : Don’t be afraid!