Senior iOS Engineer Shares Insights on Embracing Change
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Talk on what it's like to deal with change in software engineering teams. Covers growth from a team aspect, as well as dealing with change in personal career growth.
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Senior iOS Engineer Shares Insights on Embracing Change
- 1. KR ISTINA FOX | SENIOR IOS ENG IN EE R | I N TU IT E M B R A C I N G C H A N G E KRISTINA.IO @ K R S T N F X
- 6. Growth
- 7. kristina.io @krstnfx First experience for engineers on a new team? Onboarding
- 8. kristina.io @krstnfx Onboarding - The hunt and peck Pieces at a time • Important to the specific feature • Example file/class
- 9. kristina.io @krstnfx Onboarding - The whole picture High level overview • General architecture • Network layer • Utilities • Analytics • UI and view components
- 10. kristina.io @krstnfx Onboarding - Documentation Think back to when you started on the team. What did you need? • Feature owners • Tools • Build process
- 11. kristina.io @krstnfx What happens if the current process doesn’t work anymore?
- 12. kristina.io @krstnfx Ex: Pull request reviewers @ABCD ✅✅✅✅✅ FGHIJ@ABCKLDMNO 😱
- 13. kristina.io @krstnfx Ex: Pull request reviewers FGHIJ@ABCKLDMNO FGHIJ@ABCKLDMNO FGHIJ@ABCKLDMNO 💀
- 14. kristina.io @krstnfx Necessary changes in process 😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶
- 15. kristina.io @krstnfx Necessary changes in process 😶😶😶😶😶😶🤩🤩🤩🤩😶😶😶😶😶😶 Social norms can be changed by only 25% of the group http://coglode.com/gem/the-25-percent-rule
- 16. kristina.io @krstnfx Necessary changes in process https://twitter.com/sama/status/1027272580925935616
- 18. kristina.io @krstnfx Your app looks like you have 25 different engineers working on it…in a bad way
- 22. kristina.io @krstnfx What is a design system? A design system is a collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, that can be assembled together to build any number of applications. https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/guide-to-design-systems/
- 25. kristina.io @krstnfx Design SystemDesign System
- 26. kristina.io @krstnfx Where to start? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB36hr7FQis Sam Soffes - Lyft mobile design system
- 27. kristina.io @krstnfx How can you research new technology without getting in the way of your current work?
- 28. kristina.io @krstnfx Technology Spikes Time-limited experiment • 1 engineer • Alter minor feature • Build prototype • Not production ready • Report back to team
- 29. kristina.io @krstnfx Technology Spikes Our rewrite actually started as an (...) experimental side project by a single developer on the team. I think this was super important to how our rewrite was actually successful. https://www.skilled.io/u/keithsmiley/tales-of-a-rewrite-at-lyft “ - Keith Smiley on Lyft Swift rewrite
- 30. kristina.io @krstnfx Rotate and spread expertise 🙂 💡
- 31. kristina.io @krstnfx Rotate and spread expertise 🙂 💡 🙂 💡 🙂 💡 🙂 💡 🙂 💡
- 32. kristina.io @krstnfx Rotate and spread expertise 🙂 💡 🙂 💡 🙂 💡 🙂 💡 🙂 💡 TT TT TTTT TT
- 33. kristina.io @krstnfx Levels don’t matter too much Don’t have to match engineering levels • Junior engineers can coach too • Mentorship • Empathy • Full understanding
- 34. Challenges
- 35. kristina.io @krstnfx How might people themselves change?
- 36. kristina.io @krstnfx Problematic personalities • Micromanager - “delegation” • Dictator - my way or the highway • Sheep - easily influenced • Bull - just wants to get stuff done • Traditionalist - person who doesn’t like change Stress of rapid change might bring out a new side to people
- 37. kristina.io @krstnfx Compassionate Coding The more we are led on the one hand to think of our fellowmen as deterministic physical systems - robots, machines, brains - the more heartlessly and selfishly we can allow ourselves to deal with them. https://twitter.com/aprilwensel/status/1029026906665099264 “ - Les Giblin, How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People
- 38. kristina.io @krstnfx Problematic personalities • Micromanager - “delegation” • Dictator - my way or the highway • Sheep - easily influenced • Bull - just wants to get stuff done • Traditionalist - person who doesn’t like change Stress of rapid change might bring out a new side to people
- 39. kristina.io @krstnfx What happens when the business decides all the work?
- 41. kristina.io @krstnfx PM driven backlog • Took autonomy away from the team • Made people unmotivated • Technical debt starts to pile up • Can’t work with latest technologies from Apple
- 42. kristina.io @krstnfx Balancing business and engineering goals Have to find the right balance between business & engineering driven projects • Engineering days (quarterly hackathon) • Tech hygiene & engineering tasks a part of every sprint
- 43. kristina.io @krstnfx One of the biggest downsides of changing everything at once?
- 44. kristina.io @krstnfx Gigantic pull requests
- 46. kristina.io @krstnfx Merge from master often!
- 47. kristina.io @krstnfx Dealing with giant PRs When it can’t be avoided… • Meet with team to talk through specific portions of the PR • Send ahead of time so people have time to look through it • Self-comment on your own PR • Point out specific places you want folks to focus on
- 50. Transitioning to a more senior engineer
- 51. kristina.io @krstnfx The hardest lesson? Writing code is not always the most effective use of your time for the team
- 52. kristina.io @krstnfx Coaching and mentoring What’s the best use of your time to make the team more effective? • Enable, encourage & support others • Give hints, not solutions
- 53. kristina.io @krstnfx I can’t get anything done anymore
- 54. kristina.io @krstnfx Scheduling Be realistic about your schedule • Don’t pick up critical tasks that may block others Take some time back for yourself • WFH once a week • “Hide” away from your desk
- 55. kristina.io @krstnfx Find a new system List of things to do never gets shorter • Focus on 1 - 2 most important things that need to be finished every day • Personal system : Getting Things Done via Todoist • Include 1 - 2 work items into my personal todo list
- 58. kristina.io @krstnfx Is change always a good thing?
- 59. kristina.io @krstnfx Reflect on your personal goals Make sure the changes made still align with your personal career goals • Did your position change? • Do you work well with new people who have been brought in? • Does the new mission align with your values? • Will this job teach you what you want to learn? • Are you getting enough time with your family?
- 60. kristina.io @krstnfx Reflect on your personal goals Life is too short to get caught up in the things that don’t even matter.“ - Robert Tew
- 61. kristina.io @krstnfx John Maxwell Change is inevitable Growth is optional
- 62. kristina.io @krstnfx T R A D I T I O N Just because you’ve always done it this way, doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly stupid.
- 63. THANK YOU KRISTINA.IO @ K R S T N F X