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stevenjackson
March 10, 2017
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Better Software Through Shared Understanding
growing software, diversity, team collaboration and storytelling
stevenjackson
March 10, 2017
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Transcript
Better Software Through Shared Understanding @stevejxsn
I’m @stevejxsn
[email protected]
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Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control
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Option 1
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Success!
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Diversity
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Lost Perspective Reduced Group Intelligence Lesser performance http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686 http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385.full http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01559.x
https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~hbuck1/Week8/GenderDiversity.pdf
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Capability Sustainability
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Who How
Who How What
Who How What When
Who How What When
Who How What When Why
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Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
Shared Understanding
How?
Focus areas to promote a diverse team
Whole Team • Focused on Value • Clear Communication •
T-Shaped People • Poly-pairing • Swarming • Flexible vs Time-Wasting
Empathy • Get involved in user research • Make something
humans can use
Radiate http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/
Question Assumptions • Let’s have a conversation • Oh! This
is complicated…
What about tools?
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Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Loose Binding
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Project
Project
Project
MVP
Rewrite
Features
See-Saw
Who How What When
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Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Abstract Concrete
Lightweight Prototypes
Collaborative Sketching Drill into features Design Studio Method New Ideas
Good ideas come from everybody
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Still appropriate for the stage?
Still helping us stay together?
The power of examples
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Shared Purpose
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Shared Purpose
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Examples
Shared Understanding
Shared Purpose
Connections
Shared Story
Culture
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I’m @stevejxsn
[email protected]
Thanks!