This talk outlines a number of the lessons and principals I have learned in my 5 years with Sauce Labs and experiencing its growth and success from a development and management perspective.
ChatGPT and the Future of Work - Clark Boyd Clark Boyd
Everyone is in agreement that ChatGPT (and other generative AI tools) will shape the future of work. Yet there is little consensus on exactly how, when, and to what extent this technology will change our world.
Businesses that extract maximum value from ChatGPT will use it as a collaborative tool for everything from brainstorming to technical maintenance.
For individuals, now is the time to pinpoint the skills the future professional will need to thrive in the AI age.
Check out this presentation to understand what ChatGPT is, how it will shape the future of work, and how you can prepare to take advantage.
Everything you need to know about 1 on 1s to prevent turnover and motivate yo...Jason Evanish
1 on 1 meetings are the single best tool a manager has to prevent turnover and drive performance with their teams. We share how you can start and make the most of these incredibly valuable meetings.
Whether you are replacing your performance reviews with 1 on 1s, or looking for ways for your managers to improve the 1 on 1s they already have, this is the deck for you.
We cover the latest research from places like Harvard and Stanford, as well as the timeless best practices great leaders like Andy Grove and Dale Carnegie have been using for decades.
Some think working remotely is a terrible setting that takes control away and let's employees stay at home and be useless. Others find that remote work increases overall productivity and lowers the need to micromanage.
And both sides might be correct as remote work, like all other structures, work really well for some and make others crazy.
The only thing that we can say for certain is that telecommuting is increasingly popular and there are problems you need to face to make it work.
“Let me tell you a story….” – Storytelling, one of the most powerful ways to convey messages and a basic human need.
The workshop explores the role of storytelling in digital service design. With the constant rise of new emerging technologies, new challenges arise impacting various areas of design. Allowing for non-linear and more continuous experiences, the user is empowered to alter the course of the narrative and the way content is experienced and explored.
The static world of websites and apps is challenged by new technologies such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, and connected devices, all of which require the creation of continuous, multi-routed storylines that Occulusinteraction Design is crafting and orchestrating, as interaction allows the user to be more deeply involved with the content the story thereof. Instead of presenting a linear feature, the user can follow various characters and affect the outcome of the story. This results in more dynamic stories and outcomes, captivating the user and enhancing the user experience.
A co-creation with Maria Lumiaho and Suvi Numminen, at Futurice.
ChatGPT and the Future of Work - Clark Boyd Clark Boyd
Everyone is in agreement that ChatGPT (and other generative AI tools) will shape the future of work. Yet there is little consensus on exactly how, when, and to what extent this technology will change our world.
Businesses that extract maximum value from ChatGPT will use it as a collaborative tool for everything from brainstorming to technical maintenance.
For individuals, now is the time to pinpoint the skills the future professional will need to thrive in the AI age.
Check out this presentation to understand what ChatGPT is, how it will shape the future of work, and how you can prepare to take advantage.
Everything you need to know about 1 on 1s to prevent turnover and motivate yo...Jason Evanish
1 on 1 meetings are the single best tool a manager has to prevent turnover and drive performance with their teams. We share how you can start and make the most of these incredibly valuable meetings.
Whether you are replacing your performance reviews with 1 on 1s, or looking for ways for your managers to improve the 1 on 1s they already have, this is the deck for you.
We cover the latest research from places like Harvard and Stanford, as well as the timeless best practices great leaders like Andy Grove and Dale Carnegie have been using for decades.
Some think working remotely is a terrible setting that takes control away and let's employees stay at home and be useless. Others find that remote work increases overall productivity and lowers the need to micromanage.
And both sides might be correct as remote work, like all other structures, work really well for some and make others crazy.
The only thing that we can say for certain is that telecommuting is increasingly popular and there are problems you need to face to make it work.
“Let me tell you a story….” – Storytelling, one of the most powerful ways to convey messages and a basic human need.
The workshop explores the role of storytelling in digital service design. With the constant rise of new emerging technologies, new challenges arise impacting various areas of design. Allowing for non-linear and more continuous experiences, the user is empowered to alter the course of the narrative and the way content is experienced and explored.
The static world of websites and apps is challenged by new technologies such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, and connected devices, all of which require the creation of continuous, multi-routed storylines that Occulusinteraction Design is crafting and orchestrating, as interaction allows the user to be more deeply involved with the content the story thereof. Instead of presenting a linear feature, the user can follow various characters and affect the outcome of the story. This results in more dynamic stories and outcomes, captivating the user and enhancing the user experience.
A co-creation with Maria Lumiaho and Suvi Numminen, at Futurice.
10 Best Practices of a Best Company to Work ForO.C. Tanner
What does it take to be named a Best Company to Work for by FORTUNE magazine? For starters, a winning culture, collaboration, and creating an environment for learning and growth. Take a look at these slides for more ideas!
Have you ever been blindsided by the departure of a good team member? Have you had team issues boil over and affect long-term chemistry? Or, conversely, have you seen the positive momentum of a team with purpose and alignment between their interests and their roles and responsibilities?
What Are the Basics of Product Manager Interviews by Google PMProduct School
Ankit walked through an intro to the Product Manager role, the skills needed, and how the role differs between small and large companies. He wrapped up with some advice that's helped him in his Product Manager interviews over the years.
He gave a structured approach to thinking about what a Product Manager actually does (structured, meaning no "top 10" lists) and what are the skills you need to do well as a Product Manager.
Webinar: Reimagining staffing: Discovering the opportunity in the ‘Great Resi...AppFolio
Over the last two years, the property management industry has faced an incredible number of challenges, but none have been as tough to solve as hiring and staffing. With the “Great Resignation” in full effect, attracting qualified candidates and retaining key employees has become more important than ever. But what if we embrace it all as an opportunity?
Join us for an interactive webinar led by Stacy Holden, Industry Principal at AppFolio, to hear how organizations are solving their most pressing staffing challenges and why an innovative approach can help you redefine what successful recruitment looks like.
Is this what the future of high-volume recruitment will look like? We hope so!
Let's take a look at how AI can save high-volume recruitment.
AI for recruiting is the application of artificially intelligent abilities such as learning or problem-solving designed to automate some part of the recruiting workflow.
In 7 steps we take a look at the impact of AI technology on recruitment.
Step 1: Your job posting receives receives hundreds of resumes which get collected by your ATS. On average, 75% of the candidates are unqualified.
Step 2: AI recruitment in the form of automated resume screening technology instantly grades and shortlists the qualified 25% of candidates for you.
Step 3: With a click of a button, you can set up interviews with qualified candidates using an auto-dialer, auto-texter, or auto-emailer.
Step 4: AI recruitment in the form of a chatbot can help you engage with candidates by answering their questions about the job and providing them with feedback about their applications.
Step 5: AI recruitment in the form of video interview technology uses algorithms to analyze candidates’ emotions, word choices, and personality traits to help you assess whether they’d be a good fit for the job.
Step 6: You can interview candidates online in real time or watch pre-recorded interviews on your own time. With a click of a button, you can invite candidates to an in-person interview or hire them based on their video interview.
Step 7: By automating or streamlining parts of your recruiting workflow, AI recruitment allows you to spend more of your valuable time engaging with candidates and partnering with hiring managers to make better hires, faster.
Hacking Your Product Management Interview by Google PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- How I went from "strong no hire" to "strong hire"
- Why generalists PM interviews are about structure
- The hacks to be creative under pressure
- Make sure you maximize your points on the rubric
The Unicorn Project and The Five Ideals (Updated Dec 2019)Gene Kim
It is impossible to overstate how much I’ve learned since co-authoring The Phoenix Project, DevOps Handbook, and Accelerate. I’m so excited that after years of work, The Unicorn Project will be published later this year.
This book is my attempt to frame what I’ve learned studying technology leaders adopting DevOps principles and patterns in large, complex organizations, often having to fight deeply entrenched orthodoxies. And yet, despite huge obstacles, they create incredibly effective and innovative teams that create beacons of greatness that inspire us all.
In this book, we follow a senior lead developer and architect as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy, forced to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, change requests, and approvals. Decades of technical debt make even small changes difficult or impossible, often causing catastrophic outcomes and fear of punishment.
I get tremendous delight and gratification that this book is not about the bridge crew of the Starship Enterprise -- instead, it is about redshirt engineers, which as it turns out, whose heroic work matters most to the long-term survival of almost every organization.
In my previous books, I’ve focused on principles and practices (e.g., Three Ways, Four Types of Work). However, I’ve always wanted to describe the spectrum of cultural, experiential and value decisions we make that either enable greatness, or create chronic suffering and underperformance. They are currently as follows:
• The First Ideal — Locality and Simplicity
• The Second Ideal — Focus, Flow and Joy
• The Third Ideal — Improvement of Daily Work
• The Fourth Ideal — Psychological Safety
• The Fifth Ideal — Customer Focus
In this talk, I’ll share with you my goals and aspirations for The Unicorn Project, describe in detail the Five Ideals, along with my favorite case studies of both ideal and non-ideal, and why I believe more than ever that DevOps will be one of the most potent economic forces for decades to come.
SourceCon Atlanta 2013 Presentation: How to Hire and Build Your Own Sourcing ...Glen Cathey
This is my 2013 SourceCon Atlanta presentation on how to hire and grow your own sourcing team. It covers my hiring profile, a few Boolean search strings for finding people who fit my hiring profile, support for my theory that you can create super sourcers (and recruiters for that matter) by hiring people with no experience and training them properly, coming from the book "The Talent Code." It also explores the pros and cons of hiring experienced sourcers vs. hiring people with no experience and building sourcers from scratch.
This presentation was given at a Design Thinking workshop as part of Philly Tech Week 2017. Topics covered include an intro to design thinking, a User Journey mapping activity, and a Team Design Challenge.
How IT services companies who want to build non linear growth models need to make the necessary shifts internally to be able to innovate in product creation
https://www.wrike.com/blog - Let's face it, the Project Manager role isn't easy. PMs have to stay on top of a million tiny details, all while motivating a group of overworked people to deliver on a tough deadline. It's a juggling act that has spawned many horror stories. We thought it might be enlightening to tell 5 true stories — without mentioning names of course — in the hopes that you never, ever repeat what these Project Managers from Hell did to their teams. Read this and weep!
10 Best Practices of a Best Company to Work ForO.C. Tanner
What does it take to be named a Best Company to Work for by FORTUNE magazine? For starters, a winning culture, collaboration, and creating an environment for learning and growth. Take a look at these slides for more ideas!
Have you ever been blindsided by the departure of a good team member? Have you had team issues boil over and affect long-term chemistry? Or, conversely, have you seen the positive momentum of a team with purpose and alignment between their interests and their roles and responsibilities?
What Are the Basics of Product Manager Interviews by Google PMProduct School
Ankit walked through an intro to the Product Manager role, the skills needed, and how the role differs between small and large companies. He wrapped up with some advice that's helped him in his Product Manager interviews over the years.
He gave a structured approach to thinking about what a Product Manager actually does (structured, meaning no "top 10" lists) and what are the skills you need to do well as a Product Manager.
Webinar: Reimagining staffing: Discovering the opportunity in the ‘Great Resi...AppFolio
Over the last two years, the property management industry has faced an incredible number of challenges, but none have been as tough to solve as hiring and staffing. With the “Great Resignation” in full effect, attracting qualified candidates and retaining key employees has become more important than ever. But what if we embrace it all as an opportunity?
Join us for an interactive webinar led by Stacy Holden, Industry Principal at AppFolio, to hear how organizations are solving their most pressing staffing challenges and why an innovative approach can help you redefine what successful recruitment looks like.
Is this what the future of high-volume recruitment will look like? We hope so!
Let's take a look at how AI can save high-volume recruitment.
AI for recruiting is the application of artificially intelligent abilities such as learning or problem-solving designed to automate some part of the recruiting workflow.
In 7 steps we take a look at the impact of AI technology on recruitment.
Step 1: Your job posting receives receives hundreds of resumes which get collected by your ATS. On average, 75% of the candidates are unqualified.
Step 2: AI recruitment in the form of automated resume screening technology instantly grades and shortlists the qualified 25% of candidates for you.
Step 3: With a click of a button, you can set up interviews with qualified candidates using an auto-dialer, auto-texter, or auto-emailer.
Step 4: AI recruitment in the form of a chatbot can help you engage with candidates by answering their questions about the job and providing them with feedback about their applications.
Step 5: AI recruitment in the form of video interview technology uses algorithms to analyze candidates’ emotions, word choices, and personality traits to help you assess whether they’d be a good fit for the job.
Step 6: You can interview candidates online in real time or watch pre-recorded interviews on your own time. With a click of a button, you can invite candidates to an in-person interview or hire them based on their video interview.
Step 7: By automating or streamlining parts of your recruiting workflow, AI recruitment allows you to spend more of your valuable time engaging with candidates and partnering with hiring managers to make better hires, faster.
Hacking Your Product Management Interview by Google PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- How I went from "strong no hire" to "strong hire"
- Why generalists PM interviews are about structure
- The hacks to be creative under pressure
- Make sure you maximize your points on the rubric
The Unicorn Project and The Five Ideals (Updated Dec 2019)Gene Kim
It is impossible to overstate how much I’ve learned since co-authoring The Phoenix Project, DevOps Handbook, and Accelerate. I’m so excited that after years of work, The Unicorn Project will be published later this year.
This book is my attempt to frame what I’ve learned studying technology leaders adopting DevOps principles and patterns in large, complex organizations, often having to fight deeply entrenched orthodoxies. And yet, despite huge obstacles, they create incredibly effective and innovative teams that create beacons of greatness that inspire us all.
In this book, we follow a senior lead developer and architect as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy, forced to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, change requests, and approvals. Decades of technical debt make even small changes difficult or impossible, often causing catastrophic outcomes and fear of punishment.
I get tremendous delight and gratification that this book is not about the bridge crew of the Starship Enterprise -- instead, it is about redshirt engineers, which as it turns out, whose heroic work matters most to the long-term survival of almost every organization.
In my previous books, I’ve focused on principles and practices (e.g., Three Ways, Four Types of Work). However, I’ve always wanted to describe the spectrum of cultural, experiential and value decisions we make that either enable greatness, or create chronic suffering and underperformance. They are currently as follows:
• The First Ideal — Locality and Simplicity
• The Second Ideal — Focus, Flow and Joy
• The Third Ideal — Improvement of Daily Work
• The Fourth Ideal — Psychological Safety
• The Fifth Ideal — Customer Focus
In this talk, I’ll share with you my goals and aspirations for The Unicorn Project, describe in detail the Five Ideals, along with my favorite case studies of both ideal and non-ideal, and why I believe more than ever that DevOps will be one of the most potent economic forces for decades to come.
SourceCon Atlanta 2013 Presentation: How to Hire and Build Your Own Sourcing ...Glen Cathey
This is my 2013 SourceCon Atlanta presentation on how to hire and grow your own sourcing team. It covers my hiring profile, a few Boolean search strings for finding people who fit my hiring profile, support for my theory that you can create super sourcers (and recruiters for that matter) by hiring people with no experience and training them properly, coming from the book "The Talent Code." It also explores the pros and cons of hiring experienced sourcers vs. hiring people with no experience and building sourcers from scratch.
This presentation was given at a Design Thinking workshop as part of Philly Tech Week 2017. Topics covered include an intro to design thinking, a User Journey mapping activity, and a Team Design Challenge.
How IT services companies who want to build non linear growth models need to make the necessary shifts internally to be able to innovate in product creation
https://www.wrike.com/blog - Let's face it, the Project Manager role isn't easy. PMs have to stay on top of a million tiny details, all while motivating a group of overworked people to deliver on a tough deadline. It's a juggling act that has spawned many horror stories. We thought it might be enlightening to tell 5 true stories — without mentioning names of course — in the hopes that you never, ever repeat what these Project Managers from Hell did to their teams. Read this and weep!
The importance of software since there is were the motivation for software engineering lies and then and introduction to software engineering mentioning the concept and stages of development and working in teams
The Department of Environment has approved this faulty EIA submitted by the Power Development Board. The project would be implemented by the governments of Bangladesh and India.
The Ultimate Guide to Creating Visually Appealing ContentNeil Patel
From videos to infographics, I’m constantly leveraging visual media.
Can you guess why?
It’s because these visual content pieces are generating more backlinks than any other form of content I publish, which—in the long run—helps increase my search engine rankings and overall readership numbers.
So, how do you create these visual masterpieces? Well, this infographic should help you.
Engineering Managers - what skills they have, what they do, how to become onePiotr Uryga
Talk presents list of main skills needed from managers of software development teams. It also gives tips on how and where to learn those skills and how to approach becoming engineering manager.
Crash course - managing software people and teams (engineering leadership sig...Ron Lichty
Crash Course: Managing Software People and Teams (Engineering Leadership SIG of SVForum, 11.12), a talk by Ron Lichty, co-author of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams.
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer and you've got some people skills." But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley, September), now available for pre-order online. In this interactive session, we'll examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. We'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see. And you'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Crash Course: Managing Software People and Teams (IEEE, 4.4.13)Ron Lichty
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer and you've got some people skills." But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley, September), now available for pre-order online. In this interactive session, we'll examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. We'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see. And you'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Scrum and Patterns share a heritage that goes back centuries. The common foundations of the two — local adaptation, incremental growth, focus on "value," and the central human element — make patterns a particularly viable vehicle for rolling out Scrum. These notes give a short definitive summary of patterns (by example) and pattern languages. Next, they introduce basic Scrum patterns that the Scrum PLoP® effort has gathered over the past five years. After that we look at the "Scrum secrets" — Scrum fundamentals that most practitioners either aren't aware of or which usually go unheeded. Patterns help tease out the tradeoffs ("forces") for these forms in a way that makes them memorable. Last, we give a glimpse of how to use these patterns as a powerful way to evolve your own Scrum implementation to excellence.
Product talk good sw mgmt 11.13.12 (startup product meetup)Ron Lichty
Good software management:
⁃ How to recognize it when you see it
⁃ How to encourage it
⁃ How to encourage senior management to encourage it
⁃ How to collaborate with it effectively
10 questions: Global Product Mgmt Talks: 10 questions to stimulate thinking (& enable Socratic discussion):
What does good software development management look like?
How do good programming managers motivate their teams?
What are programming managers bedeviled by?
How are programming managers tormented by product managers?
What are the forces that cause discord between product and software development managers?
What can be done about feature creep and late changing requirements?
Why do so many parts of organizations expect feature requirements to change but not delivery schedules?
What part of “cheap, fast, good – pick any two” isn’t clear?
What are objectives shared between programming managers and product managers that could encourage collaboration?
What would happen if programming managers and product managers formed mutual admiration societies with each other?
Product talk: Good Software Management: 11.13.12 (startup product meetup)Ron Lichty
Good software management:
⁃ How to recognize it when you see it
⁃ How to encourage it
⁃ How to encourage senior management to encourage it
⁃ How to collaborate with it effectively
What does good software development management look like?
How do good programming managers motivate their teams?
What are programming managers bedeviled by?
How are programming managers tormented by product managers?
What are the forces that cause discord between product and software development managers?
What can be done about feature creep and late changing requirements?
Why do so many parts of organizations expect feature requirements to change but not delivery schedules?
What part of “cheap, fast, good – pick any two” isn’t clear?
What are objectives shared between programming managers and product managers that could encourage collaboration?
What would happen if programming managers and product managers formed mutual admiration societies with each other?
Crash Course: Managing Software People and Teams (Code Camp '12, SV)Ron Lichty
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer and you've got some people skills." But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley, just published in September and now available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble). In this interactive session, we'll examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. We'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see. And you'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Crash Course - managing software people and teams (sfelc, 10.26.16)Ron Lichty
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Crash course- managing software people and teamsRon Lichty
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Bio:
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in software development and product organizations for over 25 years at companies like Apple, Fujitsu, Schwab, Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. He has mostly managed development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, … pretty much everyone on product teams. The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last four years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career has spanned web applications, system software, entertainment, shrinkwrap products, ecommerce, interface development, embedded devices, professional services and IT - and grew from first level managing to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering and Acting CTO roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com
His 450-page book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), published by Addison Wesley, has been compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. He also co-authors the biannual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
(PROJEKTURA) lean and agile for corporation @Cotrugli MBARatko Mutavdzic
Great time and hopefully presentation on COTRUGLI MBA @Zagreb about Lean and Agile to packed crowd of MBA students. As you can imagine, number of questions later :)
Scrum Master Lessons from my 4 Year Old SonRyan Ripley
At a recent cookout, my 4 year old son, Dawson, ran for the back yard and easily joined a game of hide and seek. Watching this unfold, I realized that these kids are naturally agile. They got straight to playing (the value) and didn’t need a lot of ceremony to get there. They kids all did a quick hello, told Dawson what game they were playing, and invited him to join in (daily scrum). Then they played.
He and his friends self-organize, self-manage, and solve problems on the fly. They naturally exhibit the agile values and scrum practices that many adults struggle with daily.
For example, most parents have been bombarded with an unending stream of “Why’s?” from their child. Why does this work? Why did that happen? Why? Why? Why? While this line of questioning can be stressing, it is also invaluable to finding the root cause of an issue. Scrum teams use this approach – called The 5-Why’s – to get past technical issues and down to interpersonal issues that could be hindering the team.
This session is a fun discussion about the behaviors I’ve noticed in my son and how they translate to important lessons that all scrum master need to learn to better serve their teams.
PMexpo 2019 | Giuseppe Carrella, Progetto "noon" e diversità cognitiva all'operaPMexpo
Un percorso nel valore dei 'secondi', quelli che non vedi mai: il batterista del gruppo, il cuoco della nave, il project maneger ecc. Quelli che stanno sempre dietro le quinte. Non c’è storia che non li contempli, che senza il loro apporto evaporerebbero in un solo istante.
E che storia di secondi è quella che parte con una dotazione da 1 miliardo di dollari? E che ruolo l’AMBIZIONE? La conoscenza? Come si può affrontare e gestire un progetto, noon appunto, per attaccare Amazon, Alibaba, ebay? Come si possono pensare di coordinare 620 persone di 25 nazioni diverse che per più di due anni, hanno realizzato e vissuto la globalizzazione senza intermediari riscrivendo concetti, ormai logori, legati alla progettualità, alla leadership e all'integrazione di valori e competenze.
Peopleware is a popular book about project management. in order to summarize i divided this book in 6 parts. This slide deck describes all chapters briefly.
Similar to The Black Magic of Engineering Management (20)
A talk I put together about my languages and linguistics hobby, specifically some practical approaches for choosing and achieving consistent progress. Originally made for an internal Betable Whiskey Talk.
A webinar about using Se and Sauce Builder in order to built automated tests. Also showing how to run against Selenium RC, Sauce OnDemand, export into multiple languages and run tests with TestRunnr.
Final project report on grocery store management system..pdfKamal Acharya
In today’s fast-changing business environment, it’s extremely important to be able to respond to client needs in the most effective and timely manner. If your customers wish to see your business online and have instant access to your products or services.
Online Grocery Store is an e-commerce website, which retails various grocery products. This project allows viewing various products available enables registered users to purchase desired products instantly using Paytm, UPI payment processor (Instant Pay) and also can place order by using Cash on Delivery (Pay Later) option. This project provides an easy access to Administrators and Managers to view orders placed using Pay Later and Instant Pay options.
In order to develop an e-commerce website, a number of Technologies must be studied and understood. These include multi-tiered architecture, server and client-side scripting techniques, implementation technologies, programming language (such as PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and MySQL relational databases. This is a project with the objective to develop a basic website where a consumer is provided with a shopping cart website and also to know about the technologies used to develop such a website.
This document will discuss each of the underlying technologies to create and implement an e- commerce website.
6th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2024)ClaraZara1
6th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2024) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Machine Learning & Applications.
CW RADAR, FMCW RADAR, FMCW ALTIMETER, AND THEIR PARAMETERSveerababupersonal22
It consists of cw radar and fmcw radar ,range measurement,if amplifier and fmcw altimeterThe CW radar operates using continuous wave transmission, while the FMCW radar employs frequency-modulated continuous wave technology. Range measurement is a crucial aspect of radar systems, providing information about the distance to a target. The IF amplifier plays a key role in signal processing, amplifying intermediate frequency signals for further analysis. The FMCW altimeter utilizes frequency-modulated continuous wave technology to accurately measure altitude above a reference point.
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Sachpazis:Terzaghi Bearing Capacity Estimation in simple terms with Calculati...Dr.Costas Sachpazis
Terzaghi's soil bearing capacity theory, developed by Karl Terzaghi, is a fundamental principle in geotechnical engineering used to determine the bearing capacity of shallow foundations. This theory provides a method to calculate the ultimate bearing capacity of soil, which is the maximum load per unit area that the soil can support without undergoing shear failure. The Calculation HTML Code included.
Welcome to WIPAC Monthly the magazine brought to you by the LinkedIn Group Water Industry Process Automation & Control.
In this month's edition, along with this month's industry news to celebrate the 13 years since the group was created we have articles including
A case study of the used of Advanced Process Control at the Wastewater Treatment works at Lleida in Spain
A look back on an article on smart wastewater networks in order to see how the industry has measured up in the interim around the adoption of Digital Transformation in the Water Industry.
Industrial Training at Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL)MdTanvirMahtab2
This presentation is about the working procedure of Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL). A Govt. owned Company of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation under Ministry of Industries.
2. Growing a start-up requires individual and
organizational change, here are some helpful
approaches.
3. Thrilled to be here…
• FIRST TIME IN SPAIN
• FIRST NON-TECHNICAL TALK
• FIRST VELOCITY CONFERENCE
• RENEWED NERVOUSNESS ON STAGE
4. ABOUT ME
COMPANIES
- O S A F
- S L I D E
- MOZILLA
- SAUCE LABS
JOBS
- QA ENGINEER
- WEB DEVELOPER
- J AVASCRIPT ARCHITECT
- AUTOMATION MANAGER
- DIRECTOR OF WEB DEV
- VP OF ENGINEERING
L I F E
- FROM CASCADIA
- HAPPILY MARRIED
- T R AV E L , S K I , S A I L
- ~9 YEARS OF SF
GH: github.com/admc
TW: twitter.com/admc
6. This talk was fully written on Thursdays and
Sundays.
• CONFERENCE DRIVEN { DEVELOPMENT }
7. So what happened?
• SAID “NO” TO MANAGEMENT
• I HIRED A BUNCH OF AWESOME PEOPLE.
• STARTED ASSIGNING THEM TASKS.
• …
• TODAY
“One of the great things about building a tech company is the
amazing people that you can hire.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
8. BLACK MAGIC?
“The manager’s function is not to make
people work, but to make it possible for
people to work.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
13. Success in engineering management doesn’t
just happen, it’s like anything else, your have
to geek out on it to be awesome.
14. STEP 1: Know yourself.
• TIME MANAGEMENT
• CALENDAR & EMAIL & THINKING
• HOURS OF SLEEP
• WHEN ARE YOU AT YOUR BEST
• FIGHTING OR FLIGHTING
• HAPPY, LEARNING, GROWING?
• CAN YOU SCALE?
• CONSTANT REFLECTION
15. STEP 2: Get help, immediately.
• SEEK OUT MENTORS
• READ BOOKS
• SOLICIT FEEDBACK, LISTEN.
• COUNT ON SR TEAM MEMBERS
• GET A COACH
• YOU WILL FAIL, ACCEPT AND MOVE ON.
16. Marc: “Do you know the best thing about
startups?”
Ben: “What?”
Marc: “You only ever experience two
emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that
lack of sleep enhances them both.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business
When There Are No Easy Answers
18. “The fundamental response to change is not
logical, but emotional.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
19. THE EVOLVING ROLE
• DISCOVERY
• LEAD BY EXAMPLE
• TAKE ON RESPONSIBI L ITY
• BE AN AGENT OF CHANGE
• SURVIVAL
• TECH CRUNCH
• STRUCTURAL GROUND WORK
• CONTROLLED CHAOS
• PRODUCT EXPERIMENTATION
• GROWTH
• CULTURE
• PROCESS
• HIRING & RECRUITING
21. COMMUNICATION
• REVISIT EVERY TIME YOU DOUBLE
• ENGINEERING ALL HANDS (MONTHLY )
• ENGINEERING MGMT MEETING (WEEKLY )
• TEAM STAND-UP’S (WEEKLY )
• SCHEDULED 1:1 (WEEKLY, OR BIWEEKLY )
• SLACK, EMAIL, LUNCH, GTALK, SKYPE, HANGOUT
• DON’T GET CRUSHED BY MEETINGS
22. VALUE SYSTEMS
• PROVIDE ORDER AND COHESION
• DECISION SYSTEM, BLURRED LINES
• RE-VISITED, ADAPTED, HONORED
• EXIST FROM INSIDE OUT
23. OUR VALUES
• EXCELLENCE AND PERSONAL GROWTH
• TRUTH AND TRANSPARENCY
• IT’S OKAY TO BE WRONG; NOT STAY WRONG.
• INTEGRITY
• RESPECT
https://saucelabs.com/our-values
24. “Visual supervision is a joke for development
workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
25. CULTURE
- UNIFIED MISSION AND PURPOSE
- TRUST AND RESPECT
- FREEDOM TO INNOVAT E
- LONG TERM INVESTMENTS
- FUN AND CHALLENGING
- CELEBRATE WINS
We made a video. I revisit it often.
26. BALANCE
- BREAKS AFTER BIG PUSHES
- TECH CRUNCH ALL NIGHTERS…
- PRIORITIZATION
- SAYING “NO”
- REAL VACATIONS
- REAL BOUNDARIES (24/7 EMAIL)
28. HIRING
- CULTURAL FIRST, TECHNICAL SECOND
- BE CREATIVE AND OPEN MINDED
- QUALITY OVER QUANTITY
- SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE
- TRUST YOUR GUT
Hiring is long term planning, and will slow you down.
29. “One of your many jobs as manager is
information conduit, and the rules are
deceptively simple: for each piece of
information you see, you must correctly
determine who on your team needs that piece
of information to do their job.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a
Software Engineering Manager
30.
31. ORG STRUCTURE
• DO YOUR HOMEWORK
• CROSS FUNCTIONAL PROJECTS
• CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAMS
• DIS-ORG CHART
• EVOLVING GRAPH, NOT TREE
http://pando.com/2013/02/28/why-yammer-believes-the-traditional-engineering-organizational-structure-is-dead/
32. RULES TO LIVE BY…
• DEFINE & STATE YOUR GOALS
• HAVE A VISION
• MAKE DAILY PROGRESS
• THE CALM, INDICATES A STORM
• WHISKEY
Are people happy on your team?
33. MISCONCEPTIONS
• THE JOB OF A MANAGER
• MANAGERS AND CODING
• MANAGERS VS LEADS VS PM’S
• MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
• CTO VS VPE VS CHIEF ARCHITECT
• PEOPLE && ARCHITECTURE
36. MY KINDLE
- MANAGING HUMANS
- PEOPLEWARE
- HOW NASA BUILDS TEAMS
- THE HARD THING ABOUT HARD THINGS
- SHOGUN: A NOVEL OF JAPAN
- THE 48 LAWS OF POWER
37. We are hiring @ Sauce Labs
- WEB DEVELOPMENT
- DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
- MOBILE AND HARDWARE HACKERS
- SYS ADMIN, SYS ENGINEER
- NETWORK ENGINEERING
38. THANKS!
MY OFFICE HOURS AT VELOCITY. E U :
1 8 - 1 1 - 2 0 1 4 1 1 : 1 5 - 1 1 : 5 0 C E T ( 3 5 M I N U T E S )
ROOM: TABLE B (SPONSOR PAVILION)