The secret ingredient for building high performing engineering teams

1. Building Effective
Engineering
The secret ingredient for building high
performing engineering teams

2. The
ingredients
What do we need in order to
build high performing teams?
Culture
High
Standards
Processes
Clear
Goals
Drive
Effective
Communication
Channels
Data Driven Vision Trust
Strong
Leadership
Quality
Mindset
Strong Technical
Skills

3. There is a missing ingredient

4. It’s all about the People

5. Let’s take a few minutes
to talk about us

6. What motivate us?

7. Autonomy Mastery Purpose
The urge to get
better skills
Our desire to be self
directed.
It increases engagement
over compliance.
The desire to do
something that
has meaning and
is important

8. So, how is it relevant for us?

9. Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
can help us define ourselves
as engineers.

10. Autonomy
The ability to lead features end to
end from inception to production,
break walls and push to production
in an autonomous way

11. Autonomy
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● Have full ownership
● Strong abilities to work with
interfaces
● Strong communication skills
● Get things done attitude
● Understand the big picture

12. Mastery
The appreciation of one's
craftsmanship and desire to
always improve and get better

13. Mastery
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● Appreciation of our
craftsmanship
● Strong technical skills
● Strong project leadership skills
● Make complicated things simple
● High commitment
● Continuous improvement

14. Purpose
The desire to do something that
has a meaning and is important
and is bigger from one's self

15. Purpose
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● Team Player
● Continuously improving of the
surrounding
● Entrepreneur and not only
innovator
● Looking at the big picture

16. Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
The ability to lead features end to end from
inception to production, break walls and push
to production in an autonomous way
The appreciation of one's craftsmanship
and desire to always improve and get
better
The desire to do something that has a
meaning and is important and is bigger
from one's self

17. One more thing

18. Feature Owner

19. Feature Owner is not a role
Feature Owner is not a title
Feature Owner is a mindset
Feature Owner is an expectation

20. The secret
ingredient
What do we need in order to
build high performing teams?
Culture
High
Standards
Processes
Clear
Goals
Drive
Effective
Communication
Channels
People with
Feature Owner mindset
Data Driven TrustVision
Strong
Leadership
Quality
Mindset
Strong Technical
Skills

21. Questions?

22. Thank You!