How to Supercharge Teams with Carefully Crafted Conventions

What's the secret to a high performing development team? Conventions that multiply throughput and eliminate decision fatigue. But, there's no one-size-fits-all approach.

Learn how to carefully craft a set of conventions for your team by using smaller building blocks. Looking at examples used across companies of all sizes, you'll see how these can supercharge your team's workflows and productivity overnight.

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1. Crafted
   arefully
   How to
   Supercharge
   teams.
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3. Crafted
   arefully
   How to
   Supercharge
   teams.
   @cball_
   

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4. @cball_
   Process is everything.
   

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5. @cball_
   Process is built by
   Conventions.
   

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6. @cball_
   Understand the why
   Be your best dev, creating process,
   and how to simplify by removing
   decisions.
   Craft conventions
   that Supercharge
   your team.
   See what others do
   Learn a few things from our favorite
   libraries and tools.
   Craft your own
   Find your "base" set of conventions
   and add your secret sauce on top.
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   Craft conventions
   that Supercharge
   your team.
   Perfect your Process
   Try things out, fail, and iterate.
   Repeat 2-4
   See what others are doing, craft your
   own, perfect them.
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8. @cball_
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9. @cball_
   CTO
   

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    Back to Conventions.
    

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14. CBALL
    Understand the Why
    

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15. @cball_
    From Scott's talk yesterday:
    

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    From Jason's talk yesterday:
    "Don't worry about scaling, routing, etc.
    You're always doing it the same way.
    
    Just let Serverless take care of that for you."
    

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    Basically everything in Nader's talk.
    

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    Overview
    HOW TO BE
    YOUR BEST
    DEV
    Code
    Play to your strengths
    Understand what slows you down
    Eliminate Decision Fatigue
    Teach what you know
    

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19. @cball_
    Overview
    HOW TO BE
    YOUR BEST
    DEV
    Code
    Play to your strengths
    Understand what slows you down
    Eliminate Decision Fatigue
    Teach what you know
    

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    Play to your
    strengths.
    Think like a sports team!
    Adapt your "plays" to fit your players.
    

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    Understand what
    slows you down.
    Is this the right way?
    Didn't I just make this mistake last
    week?
    Why do I have to keep telling [person]
    to do [X] during Code Review?
    etc.
    

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    Get your team on the same page to
    multiply throughput.
    

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    Eliminate
    Decision Fatigue.
    You have a finite number of
    decisions you can make in a single
    day.
    Think of it like a battery.
    It's best to spend mental energy on
    decisions that count!
    

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24. “
    QUOTE
    @cball_
    Barack Obama
    You'll see I wear only gray or blue suits. I'm trying
    to pare down decisions. I don't want to make
    decisions about what I'm eating or wearing.
    Because I have too many other decisions to
    make.
    

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25. CBALL
    See what others do
    

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    Utility css frameworks
    

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    semantic-release: commits & versioning
    

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    Npm: "Run scripts with npm run"
    Yarn: "we use run 100x/day. Make it the default"
    

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    I can keep going, but
    you get the point.
    

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32. CBALL
    Craft your own
    Conventions
    

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    Find a base. Build on top.
    Find workflows and patterns you mostly agree with.
    

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    Eslint/Recommended
    

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    ❗Stop doing this❗
    

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    Create a plugin for your team.
    

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    Think about what you require in a Pull Request.
    

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    Think about what you require in a Pull Request.
    Use a template to enforce it.
    

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    "Just copy the other one"
    

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    "Just copy the other one"
    Leverage a generator.
    

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    "Just copy the other one"
    Leverage a generator.
    

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    (Hey look! There's still code in this talk)
    

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    Templates live right in the project.
    

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    Here's what that looks like in action.
    

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    Create Checklists.
    

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    Create Checklists.
    

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    What else can you
    think of?
    

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48. @cball_
    Conventions,
    Crafted.
    
    
    

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49. CBALL
    Perfect your
    Process
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50. •The team needs to understand the vision
    (be on the same page)
    •If there is confusion, simplify.
    Synchronization Repetition
    •You will hardly ever get it right the first time.
    •When you veer off course, understand what
    went wrong.
    •Adapt, iterate, and repeat.
    HOW TO PERFECT PROCESS
    RFCs RETROs
    

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    RFCs
    Give your team a clear picture of
    why. Show the current problem.
    Show sample code.
    Detail how you enforce / teach it.
    Show Drawbacks and questions.
    

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    Retros
    Talk about what went well and
    what could be improved with your
    new approach.
    Do these often!
    

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    Perfection.
    

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    Repeat
    Steps 2 -4.
    ♻ ♻
    2 3 4
    Perfect your Process
    See what others do Craft your own
    

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55. @cball_
    Speaking of Conventions...
    

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56. @cball_
    Coming Soon!
    React Native Release
    ReactNativeRelease.com
    Echobind has shipped lots of projects, Many
    are mobile apps.
    React Native devs are creating great apps, but
    often fail to consider the "last mile" of quality
    deployment workflows.
    We're building an OSS ecosystem to help ease
    this process, and cant wait to share it with you.
    We're targeting an early June release. If your
    team wants to help us test it, sign up or reach
    out!
    Major Features:
    * Prompt driven CLI to setup your release
    config with minimal effort
    * Initially supports CircleCI, but will support
    other providers
    * Built on top of Fastlane with added
    conventions and learnings from years of
    React Native development
    

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57. @cball_
    Take time to do this.
    

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    You'll be more efficient.
    

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    You'll ship more features.
    

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    You will help level-up other
    team members.
    

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    You'll have a better
    Developer Experience.
    

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62. Crafted
    arefully
    That's how you
    Supercharge
    your team.
    

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