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TDD (Team-Driven Development)
Samantha Quiñones
Samantha Quiñones (keen-YO-ness)
@ieatkillerbees
http://samanthaquinones.com
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“If there’s no user group in your area, congratulations, you’re it.”
If your team has no leader, congratulations, you’re it.
–Ken Kesey
“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
– RADM Grace Hopper
“If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”
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Growing Your Team
• The whole team should be involved in the hiring process.
• Bad first impressions happen. Be careful about dropping people after the 1st meeting
• Focus as much on social & cultural IQ as much as technical skills
Care and Feeding
Many people hide their problems.
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Develop an honest interest in your teammates.
Empathy
Empathy Is… (Wiseman’s 4 Attributes)
• The ability to take the perspective of another person.
• The ability to understand another person’s feelings.
• The ability to communicate that understanding.
• The ability to avoid judgment.
Empathy is Not Sympathy
• Empathy is sharing another person’s experience.
• Sympathy is acknowledging another person’s experience.
Empathy is a skill that can be learned and improved.
We must allow ourselves to be vulnerable
You are not alone.
We are all human.
Your teammates are worth the effort.
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Are You Listening?
• Speculating about our partner’s agenda
• Trying to remember that amazing article that refutes our partner’s argument
• Thinking about our own problems
• Thinking about that one time (times?) that our partner was a jerk
Slow down and pay attention.
Share your partner’s context.
Ask good questions.
Proceed when…
• You understand the topic your partner is trying to address,
• You understand your partner’s key points, and…
• You understand what your partner expects from the interaction.
It’s OK…
• To suck at this. It takes practice!
• Pause or reschedule when you are (meaningfully) distracted
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Productive Arguments
• Have a topic and a goal
• Allow all interested parties equal time to make a case
• Have a neutral referee
Be timely. Don’t let conflicts fester.
Stick to your main points. Explain your reasoning.
Be attentive, and listen to comprehend.
Don’t let it be personal. You are not your ideas.
Focus on the end, not the means.
It’s not about winning or losing.
Strong teams are built on trust.
Trust build bonds. Bonds make teams unbreakable.
Diversity of Educational Background
Diversity of Work History
Diversity of Language & Culture
Diversity of Gender and Sexuality
Diversity of Socioeconomic Status
Establish Community Space
Open Source the Workplace
• Discuss projects in the community space
• Make side-conversations open to interested parties
• Adopt a pull-request ethic
Develop a culture of service
Play Together
• Host hack-a-thons
• Code contests
• Obfuscated X
• Slowest useful SQL query
Learn Together
• Attend conferences together
• Have a weekly in-house conference
Mental Health Resources
• Prompt - http://prompt.engineyard.com/
• Mental Health First Aid - http://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/
• Open Sourcing Mental Illness - http://funkatron.com/osmi.html
Other Resources
• Brené Brown on Empathy - http://youtu.be/1Evwgu369Jw
• Servant Leadership - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership
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