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Learning to Fail

Talk about team culture, learning to fail and making it an asset to your team's goals.

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Transcript

  1. Learning to Fail Friday, January 27, 2012

  2. Open source software to improve the lives of people living

    in poverty. Friday, January 27, 2012

  3. — Friday, January 27, 2012

  4. Africa 1 billion people 500 million phones Friday, January 27,

    2012

  5. 25 Botswana 26 Zwaziland 18 South Africa 24 Lesotho Africa

    People hardest hit by HIV/AIDS are also those least likely to have access to relevant information. Friday, January 27, 2012

  6. Friday, January 27, 2012

  7. FAIL Friday, January 27, 2012

  8. Hindsight is a luxury. Friday, January 27, 2012

  9. 5 years of growing pains. Friday, January 27, 2012

  10. 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 Patients Not Returning

    Before After Friday, January 27, 2012

  11. How hard can it be? Friday, January 27, 2012

  12. Deceptively simple. Lack of ownership. Being too clever. Friday, January

    27, 2012

  13. What is it we’re building? Friday, January 27, 2012

  14. Friday, January 27, 2012

  15. One hammer to rule them all. Friday, January 27, 2012

  16. Hit scaling issues hard & fast. Friday, January 27, 2012

  17. Commitment issues. Friday, January 27, 2012

  18. 800,000+ Uniques Friday, January 27, 2012

  19. 0 25000 50000 75000 100000 June 2010 October 2010 May

    July Sept Nov Friday, January 27, 2012

  20. Architecture prevented efficient caching. Friday, January 27, 2012

  21. Metrics killed the site. Friday, January 27, 2012

  22. Mild tunnel vision. Slight frameworkitis. Friday, January 27, 2012

  23. Everything breaks at scale. Friday, January 27, 2012

  24. Team Culture Implications Friday, January 27, 2012

  25. You reproduce what you are. Friday, January 27, 2012

  26. “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which

    are copies of the communication structures of these organizations” – Melvin Conway Friday, January 27, 2012

  27. A software system will reflect the social structure of the

    organization that produced it. Friday, January 27, 2012

  28. Failures are to be expected. Friday, January 27, 2012

  29. Focus on small teams, few organizational layers. Friday, January 27,

    2012

  30. Introduce small changes. Minimize risk. Friday, January 27, 2012

  31. Ship all the time. Friday, January 27, 2012

  32. Avoid organizational silos, reduce bus factors. Friday, January 27, 2012

  33. Trust, Cooperation & Transparency. Friday, January 27, 2012

  34. Emphasize learning, code reviews & shared responsibility Friday, January 27,

    2012

  35. Team communication tools are vital. Friday, January 27, 2012

  36. Kill your darlings. Embrace change. Friday, January 27, 2012

  37. Broken gets fixed but shitty lasts forever. Friday, January 27,

    2012

  38. Technical Implications Friday, January 27, 2012

  39. Queue everything and delight everyone. Friday, January 27, 2012

  40. Automate everything. Friday, January 27, 2012

  41. Continuous Integration Friday, January 27, 2012

  42. Code reviews. Friday, January 27, 2012

  43. Make deploys easy. Friday, January 27, 2012

  44. Metrics should be cheap. Friday, January 27, 2012

  45. Failing adds value. Friday, January 27, 2012

  46. Thanks. Friday, January 27, 2012

  47. Thanks. Friday, January 27, 2012

  48. @smn http://github.com/praekelt Friday, January 27, 2012