Joyce Jang - Build Teams as an Engineer

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How to Build Teams as an Engineer PyCon 2018 Joyce Jang

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Checklist 1. Gather Information, Get Answers 2. Set a Focus 3. Draft a Team Plan 4. Design a Communication System 5. Execute & Drive Sustainability

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Checklist 1. Gather Information, Get Answers 2. Set a Focus 3. Draft a Team Plan 4. Design a Communication System 5. Execute & Drive Sustainability

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Gather Information, Get Answers • Team Identity • Responsibilities • Goal & Purpose • Success • Team Culture • Things that are and are not working • Team Perception • Ghost Responsibilities

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Gather Information, Get Answers • Goal and purpose • Working and not working • Responsibilities and non-responsibilities

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Checklist 1. Gather Information, Get Answers 2. Set a Focus 3. Draft a Team Plan 4. Design a Communication System 5. Execute & Drive Sustainability

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Checklist 1. Gather Information, Get Answers 2. Set a Focus 3. Draft a Team Plan 4. Design a Communication System 5. Execute & Drive Sustainability

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Team Plan - Team Product Eng Design

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Team Plan - Team BE FE DB

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Team Plan - Team • Modularity - separating software into components according to functionality and responsibility • Abstraction - separating complexity into components of only what’s necessary at each layer

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Team Plan - Team Goal: Create an environment that allows the team to succeed in their goals

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Team Plan - Individuals Goal: Determine how each individual ﬁts into the Team Focus, and how they will contribute to the success of the team.

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Checklist 1. Gather Information, Get Answers 2. Set a Focus 3. Draft a Team Plan 4. Design a Communication System 5. Execute & Drive Sustainability

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Communication System 1. How does an individual on the team communicate with the rest of the team? (e.g. project progress, shared tasks, ﬁxing bugs) 2. How does the team communicate with people on other teams? (e.g. customer issues, product requests, system dependencies) 3. How do we communicate to the larger organization and company? (e.g. progress, planning decisions)

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Communication System Team/ Engineer Team/ Engineer Communication

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Communication System Component Component API

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Communication System

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Checklist 1. Gather Information, Get Answers 2. Set a Focus 3. Draft a Team Plan 4. Design a Communication System 5. Execute & Drive Sustainability

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Drive Sustainability The way to automate human behavior is through habits.

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Drive Sustainability • Practice making decisions. e.g. ask the team what they think should be done from time to time • Have them drive meetings • Keep the feedback loop tight and get them in front of customers • Provide visibility. Given context, have them practice balancing priorities • Get them to execute the plan in smaller scoped areas

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Drive Sustainability Creating and driving process is laying out the framework and foundation. Building good habits around the process, is what ultimately determines the success of the team with this process.

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Checklist 1. Gather Information, Get Answers 2. Set a Focus 3. Draft a Team Plan 4. Design a Communication System 5. Execute & Drive Sustainability

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Thank you!