Bootstrapping great teams

Awesome software that delights customers is often the result of highly collaborative teams where people feed of each other to come up with creative solutions to challenging problems.

In this talk, I shared my experiences on the successes and schoolings I had in building teams that create great software.

Transcript

1. Bootstrapping great teams @martincronje martin@cron.je
2. Awesome teams?
3. Frequent delivery of software that delights our customer
4. Best teams I’ve been in… > Getting stuff done > Solves real problem > Having fun > Trust > Quality trade-offs > Experimenting
5. What is the secret?
6. What I’ve learnt so far
8. Anti-pattern 1: Shut up, follow orders
9. Anti-pattern 2: Emphasis on impact without a goal
10. Anti-pattern 3: Everyone not on the same page
11. How do we get there?
12. Team formation Small durable cross-functional teams
13. Safety and Dependability
14. Safety and Dependability… Project Aristotle site
15. Structure and Clarity… Project Aristotle site
16. Meaning and Impact…
17. Auftragsklärung Aligning on the outcomes we want to achieve
18. Lift-off Purpose, Boundaries, Agreement
19. More info…
20. @martincronje martin@cron.je