Better Software Through Shared Understanding

growing software, diversity, team collaboration and storytelling

1. Better Software Through Shared Understanding @stevejxsn
2. I’m @stevejxsn steve@testdouble.com
5. Stage 1
6. Stage 2
7. Stage 3
8. Stage 3
9. Stage 4
11. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control
17. 1995 1999 2006 2010
23. Explorer
24. Surveyor
25. Builder
26. Maintainer
30. Option 1
38. Success!
40. Diversity
43. 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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47. ?
48. ?
49. Option 2
51. Add
52. Add Stabilize
53. Add Stabilize Add
54. Add Stabilize Add Stabilize
55. Capability Sustainability
58. Who
59. Who How
60. Who How What
61. Who How What When
62. Who How What When
63. Who How What When Why
64. ?
65. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
66. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
67. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
68. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Agile
69. Shared Understanding
70. How?
71. Focus areas to promote a diverse team
72. Whole Team • Focused on Value • Clear Communication • T-Shaped People • Poly-pairing • Swarming • Flexible vs Time-Wasting
73. Empathy • Get involved in user research • Make something humans can use
74. Radiate http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/
75. Question Assumptions • Let’s have a conversation • Oh! This is complicated…
76. What about tools?
78. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Loose Binding
80. Project
81. Project
82. Project
83. MVP
84. Rewrite
85. Features
86. See-Saw
87. Who How What When
89. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Abstract Concrete
90. Lightweight Prototypes
91. Collaborative Sketching Drill into features Design Studio Method New Ideas Good ideas come from everybody
93. Still appropriate for the stage?
94. Still helping us stay together?
95. The power of examples
97. Shared Purpose
99. Shared Purpose
104. Examples
105. Shared Understanding
106. Shared Purpose
107. Connections
108. Shared Story
109. Culture
112. I’m @stevejxsn steve@testdouble.com Thanks!