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Better Software Through Shared Understanding

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March 10, 2017
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Better Software Through Shared Understanding

growing software, diversity, team collaboration and storytelling

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March 10, 2017

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Transcript

  1. Better Software Through Shared Understanding @stevejxsn

  2. I’m @stevejxsn [email protected]

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  5. Stage 1

  6. Stage 2

  7. Stage 3

  8. Stage 3

  9. Stage 4

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  11. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control

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  17. 1995 1999 2006 2010

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  23. Explorer

  24. Surveyor

  25. Builder

  26. Maintainer

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  30. Option 1

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  38. Success!

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  40. Diversity

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  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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  49. Option 2

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  51. Add

  52. Add Stabilize

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  54. Add Stabilize Add Stabilize

  55. Capability Sustainability

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  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?

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  78. Idea Norms Rules Tools Backlash Control Loose Binding

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  80. Project

  81. Project

  82. Project

  83. MVP

  84. Rewrite

  85. Features

  86. See-Saw

  87. Who How What When

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  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
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  93. Still appropriate for the stage?

  94. Still helping us stay together?

  95. The power of examples

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  97. Shared Purpose

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  99. Shared Purpose

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  104. Examples

  105. Shared Understanding

  106. Shared Purpose

  107. Connections

  108. Shared Story

  109. Culture

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  112. I’m @stevejxsn [email protected] Thanks!