Self managed teams 101

1. MOBILE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT MANAGERS Survival guide
2. ALEXEY DEMEDETSKYI • 8 years of engineering • iOS Developer at Sigma Software • @daloog
3. PAIN POINTS
4. GOOD MANAGER • Well defined process • Predictable delivery • High local efficiency
5. REAL MANAGER • Overloaded • Multiple Projects • 100% load
6. 100% LOAD IS OK.
7. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Метод_критической_цепи
8. CHANGES 100%
9. CHANGES 100% Risk hit
10. CHANGES 100% Risk hit
11. CHANGES 100% Risk hit No control
12. CHANGE PROBABILITY
13. LOW HIGH • High current load • Complex process • Micro management • Low load • Agile process • Value orientation
14. LOW HIGH STARTUP ENTERPRISE
15. LOW HIGH
16. R/K SELECTION THEORY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
17. K R • Stable environment • Unlikely to die • Highly concurrent • Rapid changes • Likely to die • Weak competition
18. K R
19. K R STARTUP ENTERPRISE
20. CONWAY'S LAW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
21. –M. Conway “organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”
22. S(O) → S(P)
23. S(O) ← S(P)
24. R/K TEAMS
25. K R • Decision makers • Strict responsibilities • Hierarchy • Experiments • Cross functional • Flat structure
26. R TEAM: HOW TO
27. INSTRUMENTS • Comfort zone • Herd instinct • Dopamine • Low error cost
28. COMFORT ZONE
29. ENVIRONMENT • Personal vertical responsibility • Personal impact • Results visibility
30. HERD INSTINCT • Imprinting • Social pressure
31. IMPRINTING
32. IMPRINTING • Start small teams • Add people slowly
33. SOCIAL PRESSURE • Daily sync • Visual progress • Pair programming
34. DOPAMINE • Open source by default • Metrics • Experiments
35. LOW ERROR COST • TDD. Not manual QA • Feature toggle. Not quick fix • Fail is a lesson. Not a guilt
37. http://www.reinventingorganizations.com
38. R TEAM: ACTION PLAN • Control environment. Not people • Trust people. Not process • Fail often and cheap. Not rare
39. QUESTIONS • email: dalog@me.com • twitter: @daloog