Leading Open Source development team on large scale Cloud based systems

My talk from Php Conference Argentina on the 4th of October 2013

Transcript

1. Janis Janovskis Buenos Aires October 4 2013 Leading Open Source development team on large scale Cloud based systems
3. Janis Janovskis ✔ 130 kgs ✔ ??? ✔ Senior Developer ✔ Only 92 kgs ✔ Scalable ✔ Passionate ✔ Tweet to find more
4. What is cloud?
6. Create or find cloud architecture example
9. ? @source http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/020711-ecs-quotes.html
10. What is then ? ✔ Don't know ✔ Service ✔ Delivery ✔ Software ✔ Customer ✔ System ✔ Scalable
11. What are people?
12. @todo – insert an image of an individual!! Individual
13. Swarm, mass …
14. Team?
15. Why to lead?
16. PEOPLE “Excellent leaders add value to their people and help them to become better than they would worked alone.” John Maxwell
17. Team
18. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me. Steve Jobs
19. Clients
20. Community
21. @todo – quote about community lead @source https://twitter.com/Dries/status/246158196119568384
22. How to lead?
24. Your team “He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk” Leadership proverb
25. Your Team ✔ They are your friends ✔ Let them make mistakes ✔ Build your trust in them ✔ How are you getting on? ✔ “Take your lunch now!!!”
26. Clients If you can't explain It simply, you don't understand it well enough.
27. ✔ Clients have to be trained ✔ Learn from them ✔ Have a pint, mate! ✔ Enjoy experience ✔ Celebrate
28. Community @todo Insert a relevant quote @source https://twitter.com/nickygumbel/status/384951800203591680
29. Cloud applications?
30. Divide tasks
31. Assign roles
32. Set boundaries
33. Case studies?
34. Save The Children ✔ 600 people (UK office) ✔ 6 people digital team ✔ Agile ✔ Leadership Initiative ✔ 1 manager ✔ 3rd party teams
35. Project owner Developer team Project manager
36. Wunderkraut
37. @source http://wunderkraut.com/blog/how-to-fail-in-a-drupal-project-fixed-price-contracts/2013-07-10
38. ✔ Micro-teams ✔ Cross border teams ✔ No actual management ✔ Leadership ✔ No headquarters ✔ Pure agile
39. Conclusion
40. Leadership checklist ✔ Lead, don't ... ✔ Be visionary ✔ Use discernment ✔ Show example ✔ Give more
41. Leadership ... ✔ Is challenging ✔ Is discipline ✔ Can be fun ✔ Is to build, not demolish ✔ Is changing
42. Acknowledgments ✔ My wife ✔ Martin Layzel ✔ Ernests Gabrans ✔ Nick Capeling ✔ Ron Chambers ✔ Aprox … 1000 publications/books
43. Gracias :):) @PASSIVUS passivemanagement.net
44. Q & A