TDD: Team-Driven Development

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TDD (Team-Driven Development) Samantha Quiñones

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Samantha Quiñones (keen-YO-ness) @ieatkillerbees http://samanthaquinones.com

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Photo Credit: ChrisM70 via Compfight CC

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“Dog Walker” © by Anthony Arrigo licensed under (CC BY 2.0)

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“If there’s no user group in your area, congratulations, you’re it.”

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If your team has no leader, congratulations, you’re it.

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–Ken Kesey “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”

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– RADM Grace Hopper “If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”

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Growing Your Team • The whole team should be involved in the hiring process. • Bad first impressions happen. Be careful about dropping people after the 1st meeting • Focus as much on social & cultural IQ as much as technical skills

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Care and Feeding

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1 in 5 Americans are effected by mental illness nimh.org, 18.2% of US adults

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Many people hide their problems.

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Develop an honest interest in your teammates.

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Empathy

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Empathy Is… (Wiseman’s 4 Attributes) • The ability to take the perspective of another person. • The ability to understand another person’s feelings. • The ability to communicate that understanding. • The ability to avoid judgment.

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Empathy is Not Sympathy • Empathy is sharing another person’s experience. • Sympathy is acknowledging another person’s experience.

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Empathy is a skill that can be learned and improved.

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We must allow ourselves to be vulnerable

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You are not alone.

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We are all human.

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Your teammates are worth the effort.

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Are You Listening? • Speculating about our partner’s agenda • Trying to remember that amazing article that refutes our partner’s argument • Thinking about our own problems • Thinking about that one time (times?) that our partner was a jerk

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Slow down and pay attention.

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Share your partner’s context.

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Ask good questions.

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Proceed when… • You understand the topic your partner is trying to address, • You understand your partner’s key points, and… • You understand what your partner expects from the interaction.

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It’s OK… • To suck at this. It takes practice! • Pause or reschedule when you are (meaningfully) distracted

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Photo by Josh Plueger USAF, public domain

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Photo © Carsten ten Brink, licensed under (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Productive Arguments • Have a topic and a goal • Allow all interested parties equal time to make a case • Have a neutral referee

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Be timely. Don’t let conflicts fester.

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Stick to your main points. Explain your reasoning.

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Be attentive, and listen to comprehend.

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Don’t let it be personal. You are not your ideas.

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Focus on the end, not the means.

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It’s not about winning or losing.

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Strong teams are built on trust.

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Trust build bonds. Bonds make teams unbreakable.

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Diversity of Educational Background

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Diversity of Work History

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Diversity of Language & Culture

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Diversity of Gender and Sexuality

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Diversity of Socioeconomic Status

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Establish Community Space

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Open Source the Workplace

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• Discuss projects in the community space • Make side-conversations open to interested parties • Adopt a pull-request ethic

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Develop a culture of service

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Play Together

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• Host hack-a-thons • Code contests • Obfuscated X • Slowest useful SQL query

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Learn Together

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• Attend conferences together • Have a weekly in-house conference

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Mental Health Resources

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• Prompt - http://prompt.engineyard.com/ • Mental Health First Aid - http://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/ • Open Sourcing Mental Illness - http://funkatron.com/osmi.html

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Other Resources

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• Brené Brown on Empathy - http://youtu.be/1Evwgu369Jw • Servant Leadership - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership

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Feedback • @ieatkillerbees • https://joind.in/13446