Danger: Zombie Apocalypse Ahead

How you and your organizations can avoid the inevitable doomsday scenario.

Darin Plum Nick Tuck

http:// TheSoftwareGardener.comhttps:// linkedin.com / in / darin-plum-32919859

Slides @ http:// bit.ly / pczombie

Kaizen: “Good Change”

Small steps lead to big innovation

Hi Petey

Bites

Zombie Apocalypse

all projects & technologies end

are you prepared?

is your organization?

Arm you with tools and practices so you and your organization will Survive!

Goal

Fortify

Invert your Org Chart #1

Traditional

Command & Control

Low Engagement

Silos &sub-optimize

No common priority

Afraid to Fail

Inverted

InnovationServant Leadership

Safety NetVisual reminder

Team Focus

Value StreamEmpowered Cross Functional

Shape your Organization for Survival!

Invert your immediate team’s

Org Chart

Doomsday Prepping

Create Coaches #2

Start with

why

Journal

Time Management Matrix

Popularized by Stephen CoveyUrgent Not Urgent

Impo

rtant

Not I

mpo

rtant

1 2

43

Accountability

Accountability

Small stepsI know I am...

Your Organization

Quadrant 2

Band Together

Join / Create Communities #3

Opportunities to Learn and Network

Agile for Defense

Lean Coffee

Community Specific

Conveniently Located

Books Sponsors

Something for everyone

Agile PrinciplesAwesomeness through stable teamsThe Servant (Book Club)Crucial Conversations (Book Club) Agile CoachingEmpowering TeamsThe Phoenix Project (Book Club)Turn this Ship Around! (Book Club)Leadership and Self-Deception (Book Club)

Soft SkillsXP PracticesCyber Security through AgileApplication TransparencyClean Code (Book Club)Release It (Book Club)Ansible enables AgilePromises in JSTesting Pyramid and Unit TestingDocker

TechnologyContinuous DeliveryMaximizing RetrospectivesContracting for Agile ProjectsKanban for the People!Agility Health RadarPomodoro TechniqueLean Startup (Book Club)The Process of Innovation

Process

Take a colleague To the next meetup

you attend

Barter

Lightning Talks #4

+

Benefits

Diversity Sustainable

Healthy Peer Pressure PracticE Speaking

Non Experts

1+ Year

100+ Lightning Talks

R & Data ScienceNPMCall to Action ButtonsRaspberry PiWebpackHacking AtomD3 Force LayoutsCognitive BiasesOttoADHDElmGetting Credit $

Motivation 3.0A Reactive TypeaheadJenkins Multibranch PluginAccentsCharles ProxyBeing a Pluralsight Author

Json ServerPhysics js

Genetic AlgorithmsUX Design

Uncle Bob MartinResponsibility

Rambda JSJIRA

Functional ProgrammingData Visualization

Designer Developer Colab.Call to Action Buttons

Bike SheddingStory of Forjit

A Reactive TypeaheadBetter Productivity w/

ProcrastinationManaging Your Apps on Google Play

Wiki AnnouncementLessons Learned - Girls Who Code

Add ThemesTechnical User Experience

Lessons Learned

Business Dev.

Life Hacks

Side Projects

Invite everyone

+

Enjoy the Little Things

Gamification #5

FormulaNo training Budget New Project

New PeopleLimited

Domain

Knowledge

Professional Development Challenge

Celebrate

Rules SharePeople

Score

Categories

Personal Growth Sharing Health &

Fitness

StatsBooks 364

Meetups & Conferences 302On-line Training 101

Degrees & Awards 30Volunteer & Mentoring 215

Presentations 137Health & Fitness 507

Points Achieved in less than 2 years by an organization of 45 people

Cost?

FREE

Challenge Your Kickass Partner & share the results

Apply knowledge

Ship-it Days #6

Ship-It Day

24 Hours Build Something

Share

Benefiting

Project Company Yourself

Can be Anything

Bugs Create Training Videos Product Innovations

Learn Something Try ProgrammingTesting Innovations

Why?

CollaborationInnovation Safe to Fail

Hands On Learning Inspires Passion

Every Sprint

Travel Light

Ditch your roles & levels #7

Current Practices

Principal

Test Engineer 3Intern

JunioRSenior

Lead

System Engineer 4

Architect Level 72

“Everything around you ... was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you

can change it, you can influence it...” - Steve Jobs

The Evil of Labels

Entitlement

resistant to learning Limits Expectations

Jealousy

Reality

We are Always Learning

Shu Ha Ri Craftsmanship

Learn Detach

Transcend

A Better way“Water the Flowers that you want to

Grow” -- Stephen R. Covey

Pick your own Title

Employees take ownership of their career

path!

Free to the Organization

Make your own business cards

Final Thoughts

Tools

a Culture of Professional Development will...

Free your Brainz

KaizenMmm… SmalL Bites

It’s your Career.Be Vigilant.

Survive.

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Most Sweet IconsPetey (Zombie Baby)

Programming Language Word CloudZombie + Television

Accountability NunZombieland Survival Rule #23ZombieLand Survival Rule #8

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