Building Modern Teams and Software
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The document outlines principles for building modern teams in software development, emphasizing communication, leadership, and transparency. It advocates for practices such as encouraging autonomy, leveraging sandbox environments for rapid development, and maintaining open lines of communication to foster collaboration. The content also provides resources and questions to facilitate reflection and improvement in team dynamics.
Building Modern Teams and Software
- 1. 1 BUILDING MODERN TEAMS & SOFTWARE OCTOBER 2019 © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 2. 2 HI, MY NAME IS ANTHONY
- 3. 3 DEVOPS PRACTITIONERS, SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS, ENGINEERING MANAGERS WHO IS THIS TALK FOR? © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 4. 4 TEAM BUILDING DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 5. 5 Have your team's back Practice continuous improvement Encourage a growth mindset WHY? © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 7. 7 Engineering the future VISION • WHAT: build the first man controlled powered airplane • HOW: test and build teams and tech with available resources, tooling, networks • WHY: Develop the technology that could change the world forever WHO • Orville and Wilbur Wright • Samuel Pierpont Langley
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- 9. 9 Everyone is Responsible 4 Principles © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 10. 10 Maintain Lines of Communication © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 11. 11 Maintain Lines of Communication Encourage • Leverage consistent tools (e.g Slack, Zoom, Phone/Text) • Encourage collaboration between lines of business • Reduce redundancy in meetings • Establish feedback loops in meetings and code Avoid • Create structures that silo teams • Adopt tools that abstract complexity • Prevent teams from expressing concerns
- 12. 12 Encourage Leadership over management © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 13. 13 Encourage Leadership over Management Encourage • Promote autonomy in teams • Cultivate trust • Keep the end in mind • Develop onboarding and upskilling paths • Make everyone accountable Avoid • Micromanage • Make decisions without feedback from various players and angles • Become comfortable
- 14. 14 Leverage Sandboxes for Rapid Development © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 15. 15 Leverage Sandboxes for Rapid Development Encourage • Promote autonomy in teams • Promote self-service • Encourage experimentation Avoid • Create bureaucracy in structure for resources • Go straight to production
- 16. 16 Create Transparency in Workstreams © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 17. 17 Create Transparency Encourage • Have well-defined roles • Create granular issues • Leverage data/info pools that all parties can access • Participate in code reviews • Take all views into consideration Avoid • Limit communication • Hoard code • Be afraid to speak up • Do work that is untracked
- 18. 18 Everyone is Responsible • Maintain Lines of Communication • Encourage Leadership over Management • Leverage Sandboxes for Rapid Development • Create Transparency in Workstreams
- 19. 19 Tools and Methods © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 20. 20 Innovation Partners & Tools Key technologies and tools that comprise the modern IT supply chain The governing body and steward of modern cloud-native tools.. Silver Partner Cloud Native Computing Foundation Tools built to enable provisioning, connecting, securing and running the multi-cloud. SI & Training Partner HashiCorp The largest public cloud provider with class leading services and offerings. Consulting Partner AWS The leader in the deployment, and orchestration of containerized applications. KCSP & KTP Kubernetes © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.
- 21. 21 Project Management • Gitlab for Source Code management • Leverage Trunk based development with Git • Leverage Gitlab Issue Tracking • Practice Lean Production methods
- 22. 22 Questions for the Group 1. How can your team increase collaboration right now? 2. In what ways has your team been successful in implementing DevOps? 3. What software development methods/tooling have been useful for your team? 4. Provide a few examples of how transparency is encouraged in your teams and organizations.
- 23. 23 Resources and Concepts • The DevOps Handbook: Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debios, John WIllis, Publisher: IT Revolution Press • Start With Why: Simon Sinek, Publisher: Portfolio • Lean Production Methods • Agile Development Methodology
- 24. 24 18600 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 260 Irvine, CA 92617 www.nebulaworks.com GET IN TOUCH WITH US And build your high-performance team nebulaworksco@nebulaworksnebulaworks © 2019 Nebulaworks, Inc.