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Evil Experiments (In the office)

Evil Experiments (In the office)

Queer Code - Pride Edition

Muahahahaha, are you an evil scientist? Do you want to experiment on your colleges and co-workers? Do you want to get them using best software development practices while doing it? In this talk I will teach you how to use an experiment based model along with a series of practical exercises to keep your team running through mazes towards better products.

About Billie

Billie Thompson (she/her) is a cloud-native consultant working at Armakuni. She helps organisations move towards fast-moving, sustainable, modern development practices. Every team is different, but usually, she's helping teach Agile, DevOps and DDD practices at all skill levels.
Twitter: @purplebooth

Armakuni

July 04, 2019
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  1. About me ▪ Quite tall ▪ Help people use best

    practices ▪ Favourite animal is the capybara
  2. TDD

  3. “ The future is already here — it's just not

    very evenly distributed William Gibson
  4. Alex and Sam ask her to talk about how she

    decided what to do with her team
  5. The Westrum Model Pathological (power-oriented) Bureaucratic (rule-oriented) Generative (performance-oriented) Low

    co-operation Modest co-operation High co-operation Messengers shot Messengers neglected Messengers trained Responsibilities shirked Narrow responsibilities Risks are shared Bridging discouraged Bridging tolerated Bridging encouraged Failure leads to scapegoating Failure leads to justice Failure leads to enquiry Novelty crushed Novelty leads to problems Novelty implemented
  6. Lencioni Inattention to RESULTS Avoidance of ACCOUNTABILITY Lack of COMMITMENT

    Fear of CONFLICT Absence of TRUST To take Accountability takes prior Commitment Focus on delivering measurable Results. Collective and individual accountability, and feedback Commitment follows healthy conflict Healthy Conflict implies Candid Debate Building Trust requires Vulnerability
  7. Formulating it as an experiment made it easy get permission

    to fail (even with a terrifying boss)