Agile Lean Europe 2013 talk in Romania

1. A ROCK STAR DEVELOPER ON YOUR TEAM
A B L E S S I N G O R A P R O B L E M ?

2. A ROCK STAR IS…

3. A ROCK STAR

4. A ROCK STAR (DEVELOPER)

5. A ROCK STAR (DEVELOPER)
But anyway…
…we are talking about people

6. THE AGILE MANIFESTO
Communication
People

7. PREMISES
…but working with people can be
complicated

8. PREMISES
Most projects failures are related
to people problems

9. PREMISES
Some people can retain a big
amount of information

10. PREMISES
What happens if the person
suddenly disappears for an
unexpected reason?

11. PREMISES

12. WHAT IS THE BUS FACTOR?

13. WHEN?
Unexpected situations

14. FACTORS INVOLVED
ü Knowledge management
ü Communication
ü The team

16. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
ü Code
ü Documentation
ü Project information

17. CODE

18. THE ROCK STAR DEVELOPER SYNDROME

19. Good way to to solve concentration of
knowledge on the team
Code Reviews
Bug Hunters
Promiscuous Pair Programming

20. DOCUMENTATION

22. DOCUMENTATION
Public and dynamic
Export to different formats
Collaborative
Advanced searches
WIKI FORMAT
Unless we are extremely careful entropy usually make
documentation quality degrades over time.

24. THE BOY SCOUTS OF INFORMATION…
…always leave the campground cleaner
than you found it.

25. PROJECT INFORMATION

26. WE SHOULD HAVE
Public radiators of information
…where everybody can participate

27. Show the world your work

28. RADIATORS OF INFORMATION: TASKBOARDS

29. RADIATORS OF INFORMATION: TASKBOARDS

30. RADIATORS OF INFORMATION: TASKBOARDS

31. RADIATORS OF INFORMATION: POST-ITS
Post-its are great but…we can’t store
enough information on them.

32. RADIATORS OF INFORMATION: ISSUES
TRACKER

33. RADIATORS OF INFORMATION

34. METRICS
Gut feelings beat hard metrics

35. METRICS
We use metrics primary to support process
improvements, not to drive it.

37. COMMUNICATION
EMPOWER

38. Men and women are communicative by
nature

39. But, sometimes, it is not easy

40. TEMPERATURE OF THE COMMUNICATION
Email
Chat
VideoConference
Face to face
Nothing

42. TEAM VISION

43. TEAM VISION
What kind of a team would you like to be part
of?
What skills does team need?
Who is essential to the team?
What is the bus factor team?

44. One more thing

46. SOCIAL NETWORKS
We work in Social Networks…

47. SOCIAL NETWORKS
6 degrees of separation
Stanley Milgram

48. SOCIAL NETWORKS

49. LEVELS OF INFLUENCE
James H. Fowler
and
Nicholas A. Christakis

50. LEVELS OF INFLUENCE
10%
70 %
Convert yourself to the potential change for lot of people.
You
Co-workers

52. @ialcazar@rul_scofield