Living Smarter not Harder: Building Mobile Products The Happy Way

[Talk at WeAreDevelopers, 17th May in Vienna]
[Talk at DroidconBerlin, 27th June in Berlin]

In a world full of hustle and work harder, we at Buffer are trying to go at it in a different way. In this talk I would love cover what it means to lead a remote Mobile Team from idea to product reality. What challenges we found on the way and what things we are learning while approaching this whole process in a happy way.

Transcript

1. Building Mobile Products The Happy Way Living Smarter not Harder Marcus Wermuth Mobile Lead at Buffer 27th June 2018 - droidconBerlin
2. Not about Writing Code
3. This Talk is more about Teams
5. Warning: Freelancers this can still be interesting for you.
7. Attention: This will still be interesting for freelancers.
8. Hi I am Marcus
9. Mobile Lead at Buffer @mwermuth
10. From Engineer to Manager
11. My Journey
12. How does Buffer work?
13. Buffer Publish Buffer Reply Buffer Analyze
14. Culture/Values
16. We are a fully- distributed Company
17. Seems all quite good?
18. Mobile First
19. Disconnection
20. Reactive not Proactive
21. Copy of Web
22. Challenges
23. Something needed to change.
24. 3 Things I consider important
25. Build a Happy Team Be a no-ego doer $ Live Smarter not Harder
26. Build a Happy Team
27. Build a Happy (remote) Team
28. What does that mean?
29. Artificial Harmony
30. –Patrick Lencioni “Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.“ http://bit.ly/artificial-harmony
31. Team
32. Happy
33. – Albert Schweitzer “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
34. Team > Product
35. Can we measure it?
37. How can we influence it?
38. Culture
39. (Remote)
40. Purpose
41. We will aim to build beautiful, high quality and focused mobile products that will enable our users to achieve everything they need to do while on the go. Mobile at Buffer will work alongside Buffer’s web products to provide the best knowledge about iOS+Android, and help build context aware products. Mobile Vision
42. - Mobile Developer at Buffer “This is huge for us, because it helps solidify what we are about over in mobile and how we get things done. We haven't had something like that before so it's super exciting!“
43. Trust Transparency
44. Have fun!
45. Live Smarter not Harder $
46. Sounds nice, but…
47. …does it work?
48. Under the right circumstances!
49. What is the alternative?
50. “LESS TALK
 MORE HUSTLE” "I’d rather Hustle 24/7 than Slave 9 to 5” WAKE
 HUSTLE
 GRIND “NOBODY CARES, WORK HARDER” “Only Cure for the Struggle is to Hustle WORK HARDER”
52. Would you like to work 18h a day?
53. Don’t make things hard for yourself.
54. Continuous Integration
56. Tests…
57. Quality means less stress!
58. Advocate for Refactoring
59. Learn to say no!
60. Source: http://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp
61. http://bit.ly/buffer-cycles
62. 2 week free roaming
63. Make small changes first!
64. Be a no-ego doer
65. Missed Opportunities
66. Missionaries > Mercenaries
67. Don’t forget who you are building it WITH.
69. iOS vs. Android
71. Build Connections
72. Friendly not necessarily Friends
73. Ignore the Organisation Chart
74. Snackchats bit.ly/buffer-snackchat
75. Don’t forget who you are building it FOR.
76. Motivation
77. Reviews
79. Customer Support
80. Accountability
81. Advocacy Days
82. Question the Status Quo!
83. Build a Happy Team Be a no-ego doer $ Live Smarter not Harder
84. Danke Thank you! @mwermuth mwermuth.com
85. Q&A @mwermuth