Farhan Thawar - Managing an Agile Team
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MANAGING AN AGILE TEAM FARHAN THAWAR, VP ENGINEERING!
Sep 28th 2011!
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SHORT BIO
• Coding since 1986 • Managing coders since 1998 • Current team is ~100 agile engineers
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AGENDA
1. Great (not good) People 2. Lightweight Process 3. Cadence loop
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ATTRACTING GREAT PEOPLE
• Other smart people • Interviews
• hard problems • coding • propensity to acHon
• Speed of decisions
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RETAINING GREAT PEOPLE
• Dan Pink • Mastery • Autonomy • Purpose
• Great people are 10x good people • Be the "unblocker”
• Less process
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PROCESS
• Agile the Xtreme Labs way • Pivotal Labs • Pair programming • Fixed hours – no WFH
• Few meeHngs • Decisions over deliberaHon
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PROCESS (TOOLS)
• Prefer talking over email • Ranking from 1..N (not high/med/low)
• Pivotal Tracker • Agile team room
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RESULTS
• Daily • Company standup • Pla[orm standup • Team standup
• Weekly • Send to QA • Ship to customer • Demo to company
• Project • Kickoff physically with customer • Submit to appStore • RetrospecHve