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
2. Building Online Communities ! I’ve been giving a lot of thought to community-building within the context of open source software. Ideas have been bouncing around my head for some time
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3. 1. Team quality impacts software quality 2. Compassion facilitates teamwork 3. Teams are the sum of teamwork
4. Team Quality Software Quality Affects
6. Team Quality Affects Team Outcomes
7. Everyone assumes that everyone is doing their best
8. Compassion Teamwork Facilitates
9. Compassion is an Optimization Problem
10. Responding to Suffering
11. 1. Share their perspective 2. Share their emotions 3. Stay non-judgemental 4. Communicate that you understand
12. Inquiry Work
13. Anticipating Suffering
14. Feedback is a Gift
18. Psychological Safety
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
21. Ask Questions
22. W hat you build doesn’t matter as much as How you build
23. Remember the Prime Directive
24. Teams Are Of Teamwork The Sum
26. “Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.” — Buckminster Fuller
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.”
29. Synergy
30. Humans are, by default, Empathetic
31. Barriers to Caring
34. In the absence of obstacles, Humans will care
35. 1. Quality teams ship quality products 2. Good teams are compassionate teams 3. We’re bringing back “Synergy”!
36. Recommended Reading
42. never You will finish