Janis Janovskis
Buenos AiresOctober 4 2013
Leading Open Source development team on large scale Cloud based systems
Janis Janovskis
✔ 130 kgs
✔ ???
✔ Senior Developer
✔ Only 92 kgs
✔ Scalable
✔ Passionate
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What is cloud?
Create or find cloud architecture example
?
@source http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/020711-ecs-quotes.html
What is then ?
✔ Don't know
✔ Service
✔ Delivery
✔ Software
✔ Customer
✔ System
✔ Scalable
What are people?
@todo – insert an image of an individual!!
Individual
Swarm, mass …
Team?
Why to lead?
PEOPLE
“Excellent leaders add value to their people and help them to become better than they
would worked alone.”
John Maxwell
Team
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs
Clients
Community
@todo – quote about community lead
@source https://twitter.com/Dries/status/246158196119568384
How to lead?
Your team
“He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk”
Leadership proverb
Your Team
✔ They are your friends✔ Let them make mistakes✔ Build your trust in them✔ How are you getting on?✔ “Take your lunch now!!!”
Clients
If you can't explain
It simply,
you don't understand
it well enough.
✔ Clients have to be trained
✔ Learn from them
✔ Have a pint, mate!
✔ Enjoy experience
✔ Celebrate
Community
@todo Insert a relevant quote
@source https://twitter.com/nickygumbel/status/384951800203591680
Cloud applications?
Divide tasks
Assign roles
Set boundaries
Case studies?
Save The Children
✔ 600 people (UK office)✔ 6 people digital team✔ Agile✔ Leadership Initiative✔ 1 manager✔ 3rd party teams
Project owner
Developer team Project manager
Wunderkraut
@source http://wunderkraut.com/blog/how-to-fail-in-a-drupal-project-fixed-price-contracts/2013-07-10
✔ Micro-teams✔ Cross border teams✔ No actual management✔ Leadership✔ No headquarters✔ Pure agile
Conclusion
Leadership checklist
✔ Lead, don't ...✔ Be visionary✔ Use discernment✔ Show example✔ Give more
Leadership ...
✔ Is challenging✔ Is discipline✔ Can be fun✔ Is to build, not demolish✔ Is changing
Acknowledgments
✔ My wife✔ Martin Layzel✔ Ernests Gabrans✔ Nick Capeling✔ Ron Chambers✔ Aprox … 1000 publications/books
Gracias :):)
@PASSIVUS
passivemanagement.net
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