Building Better Software by Building Better Teams

Slides from my Appdevcon 2018 presentation on software team building. Video recording forthcoming.

Blog post: https://ashfurrow.com/blog/building-better-software-by-building-better-teams/

Visual design inspired by the architecture of the Royal Ontario Museum. Colour scheme: http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/3560961/Haunted_House

Transcript

1. Building Better Software
   By Building Better Teams
   

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2. Building Online Communities
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3. 1. Team quality impacts software quality
   2. Compassion facilitates teamwork
   3. Teams are the sum of teamwork
   

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4. Team
   Quality
   Software Quality
   Affects
   

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6. Team Quality
   Affects
   Team Outcomes
   

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7. Everyone assumes that
   everyone is doing their best
   

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8. Compassion
   Teamwork
   Facilitates
   

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9. Compassion
   is an
   Optimization
   Problem
   

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10. Responding to
    Suffering
    

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11. 1. Share their perspective
    2. Share their emotions
    3. Stay non-judgemental
    4. Communicate that you understand
    

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12. Inquiry Work
    

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13. Anticipating
    Suffering
    

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14. Feedback
    is
    a
    Gift
    

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18. Psychological
    Safety
    

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20. “Being open with your errors and
    identifying the insights gained can
    help others avoid the same blunders
    and keep your team on-track.”
    — Open-Sourcing Company Culture at Artsy, 2015
    

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21. Ask Questions
    

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22. W
    hat you build
    doesn’t matter
    as much as
    How
    you build
    

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23. Remember
    the
    Prime
    Directive
    

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24. Teams Are
    Of Teamwork
    The Sum
    

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26. “Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted
    by the behavior of their parts taken separately.”
    — Buckminster Fuller
    

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28. "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough.
    It’s technology married with liberal arts,
    married with the humanities,
    that yields the results that make our hearts sing.”
    

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29. Synergy
    

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30. Humans are,
    by default,
    Empathetic
    

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31. Barriers to Caring
    

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34. In the absence of obstacles,
    Humans will care
    

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35. 1. Quality teams ship quality products
    2. Good teams are compassionate teams
    3. We’re bringing back “Synergy”!
    

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36. Recommended
    Reading
    

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42. never
    You will
    finish
    

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