Build & Scale High-Performing Engineering Teams Magda Miu | @magdamiu Sr. Engineering Manager @Adobe

A High-Performing Engineering Team is a team that consistently delivers high-quality work, meets deadlines, and innovates.

How Do You Measure 1 - Falling behind 2 - Treading water 4 - Innovation 3 - Repaying debt From “An elegant puzzle” by Will Larson ● Cycle Time: How quickly your team can deliver features from start to finish. ● Deployment Frequency: How often your team releases new features or bug fixes. ● Employee Satisfaction: How happy and engaged your team members are. ● Mean time to repair (MTTR): How quickly the team can fix issues. ● Customer satisfaction: Feedback from users on product quality and performance.

Engineering Teams - Maturity Model Scale and Continue to Grow because Leadership is a Continuous Journey Setup your Team for Success by giving them the Right Tools Evaluate Your Team's Current State & Build from There Foundation Efficient Strategic

Foundation 01

Assess Your Team's Starting Point Focus on Psychological Safety ● Psychological Safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. ● f(Psychological Safety ) = Trust + Permission + Respect Start with Why Define Roles & Responsibilities

Assess Your Team's Starting Point Focus on Psychological Safety Start with Why ● Together with your team members define your mission, objectives and individual development plans ● Be curious and learn more about your team, your stakeholders, your business area Define Roles & Responsibilities

Assess Your Team's Starting Point Focus on Psychological Safety Start with Why Define Roles & Responsibilities ● Empowered Driver & Product Trio = Product + Architecture + Engineering ● Be ready to tackle difficult conversations to match the right people with the right place ● How we work: agile & engineering principles, team alliance, values, strengths

Efficient 02

Setup your Team for Success Focus on Product Mindset & Developer Experiencer ● Product Mindset = Customer Focus + Data-Driven Decisions + Iterative Improvement ● Developer Experience = Technology + Culture + Working Practices ● Operational Transparency 🤓 ● Collaboration 󰹯 ● Reduced cognitive load 🚀 ● Documentation 📃 ● Tech Wealth 💰 ● Short feedback loops 🔁 ● Low levels of friction 🦾 Learn How to Handle Ambiguity Focus on a Growth Mindset Communication & Celebration

Setup your Team for Success Focus on Developer Experiencer Learn How to Handle ambiguity ● Apply the Landscape of DoubtⓇ ➡ ● Apply thinking in systems to make better decisions ● Make hard decisions and ruthless prioritization ● Show the progress towards objectives Focus on a Growth Mindset Communication & Celebration

Setup your Team for Success Focus on Developer Experiencer Learn How to Handle Ambiguity Focus on a Growth Mindset Apply Covey's Circles of Influence to map the situation to the right circle ● What is in our CONTROL ● What we can INFLUENCE ● What we can’t control and influence - can we learn to ACCEPT it?! Model curiosity and be focused on continuous improvement and learning Communication & Celebration Circle of Control Circle of Influence Circle of Concern

Setup your Team for Success Focus on Developer Experiencer Learn How to Handle Ambiguity Focus on a Growth Mindset Communication & Celebration ● Listen to understand ● Learn to give and receive feedback ● Be aware about the cultural differences ● Apply Situational Leadership ● Cultivate a culture of celebration

Strategic 03

Leadership is a Continuous Journey Use Strategic Thinking Contribute to your team/org/company’s success: ● Look for trends ○ Identify relationships, patterns, and trends that affect strategic decisions. ● Challenge your assumptions ○ Generate new possibilities by challenging your assumptions. ● Anticipate opportunities and threats ○ Take steps to create, not just respond to, the future. Purpose-Driven Leadership Grow Other Leaders

Leadership is a Continuous Journey Use Strategic Thinking Purpose-Driven Leadership ● Scale your teams - you are in your role to make an impact. ● Employee interaction ○ What do you need to be successful in accomplishing our goal? ○ What help will you need to get? ● Decision making ○ What impact will this have? How will this affect our people or our customers? ● Coaching & the power of questions ○ Where will my coaching time have the biggest impact? Grow Other Leaders

Leadership is a Continuous Journey Use Strategic Thinking Purpose-Driven Leadership Grow Other Leaders ● Scale and Amplify Impact ● Personal Fulfillment ● Organizational Strength

Engineering Teams - Maturity Model Scale and Continue to Grow because Leadership is a Continuous Journey Setup your Team for Success by giving them the Right Tools Evaluate Your Team's Current State & Build from There Foundation Efficient Strategic

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