A talk with Donal Spring.
Awesome Teams build awesome Products - A success story from a customer who of created a safe space for failing and learning driven by cultural change
5. OPEN SOURCE IS MORE THAN CODE. IT’S CULTURE.
OPEN SOURCE
CULTURE
Engaged communities
more rapidly adapt change
Transparency forces
honesty and authenticity
Open standards
preserve business agility
Shared problems
are solved faster
6. What is an Open Organisation?
Photo by Erik Odiin on Unsplash
10. Why is this a problem my team is trying
to solve?
11. - Red Hat Strategic Advisory Board - 2015
Show us. We need a way to experience Red Hat technology and culture
in a tangible, hands-on way …
WHY OPEN INNOVATION LABS?
BECAUSE OUR CUSTOMERS ASKED FOR IT!
12. High performing teams are the result of the
context they operate in
Photo by Jeffrey Lin on Unsplash
13. 13
Why should I listen to them?
Open, Residential, Immersive
14. 14
How we achieve this?
https://openpracticelibrary.com
(shameless plug)
40. Photo by Esteban Castle on Unsplash
Want to build something with us?
Visit our booth or http://red.ht/labs
Or really build something with us, we are hiring http://red.ht/jobs (search for Open Innovation Labs)
Come to the Red Hat Day Ireland on 6th June
at the Conference Centre Dublin
http://red.ht/day-ireland
Editor's Notes
APIs for DevOps Teams, Creating Open Culture Bubbles
Breakout D
Getting technology choices right is less than half the battle, organisational change and technology delivery can be far more disruptive and difficult to deliver. Jeremy is a passionate believer in being default to open, whether that applies to code or culture. In his presentation Jeremy discusses how high performing teams are the result of the context they operate in and by setting up the right open structures and environment you will accelerate you app development and DevOps experience. So the big question is: Can you bring the Open Organisation to your DevOps team and create APIs with the rest of the organisation?
Who are we? What do we do?
Lots of time spent helping kick start product teams in many industries
Health care, Charities, Insurance, Oil, Banks, Defence and Communications
(Volvo, VW, BP, Barclays, Boeing, Xpertex….)
Who are we? What do we do?
Lots of time spent helping kick start product teams in many industries
Health care, Charities, Insurance, Oil, Banks, Defence and Communications
(Volvo, VW, BP, Barclays, Boeing, Xpertex….)
Quick blerb about the pop-up res
Volvo in 60seconds
What are the characteristics of Awesome teams you’ve worked in in the past?
Cross functional
Having fun?
Which came first? The product or the team?
What are the characteristics of Awesome Teams
Teams are like liquids, they will flow with the shape of the space
Open, visual and and kinetic
Empowered to move things
Add new walls
Everything on wheels
Table teams with collaboration and sharing
Head phones on, silence. No usage of the wall space.
What have great spaces you’ve been in felt like?
A great space is open and customisable. It can change with the needs of the team.
Add moveable walls, Bring TVs on Wheels and Radiate all the things
With information on show, people can’t avoid it.
No searching in a tool to dig out the latest build stat; it’s there infront of you and for all to see.
Access to Product owner is easy; he’s there on the table beside you.
Volvo were able to practice Continuous Delivery
Add moveable walls, Bring TVs on Wheels and Radiate all the things
With information on show, people can’t avoid it.
No searching in a tool to dig out the latest build stat; it’s there infront of you and for all to see.
Codifying behaviors with a social contract
Mob programming and pairing
Listening to each other
Being accountable
Codify how the team wants to work together
Promote autonomy and self governance
In this picture you can see The Team choosing how they will work together
Evolve it;
It’s OK to be wrong story to correct behaviours……
Honor it and keep teh team honest to abiding by it.
New team members, was their first day of work!
Balance the team; not all rockstars but some capacity to mentor and bring up new team members allows groups to scale organically
Pair on specific items to encourage and raise the bar for jr team members (pic 1)
Mob program on new things - pact in picture 2
No more black magic and no more heroes!
Build a cross functional team by rotating the roles;
not everyone wants to do the grunt work all the time
so it’s important to share the responsibility.
Akshat and Gustaf doing the Selenium testing that had followed on for a sprint or two. Gustaf taking one for the team by rolling up his sleeves to help Akshat across the line.
Take a hit for the team, knowing they’d take one for you
Product owner (Jonas) listened to his team and responded accordingly
He would reject business features to grow the teams capability, reinvesting time in the team getting things done which made them better in the long run
Strong POs insulate the team from toxic people & remove them. Protecting the team
Continuous inspection / retros
Bring and Ban board
Great teams want to get better
FIKA from their retro board!
Introduce more things to the social contract eg
Introduce process only when needed ie sizing Laders etc
Awesome teams invite new team members in,
they are not forced into accepting new people who could shift or disrupt their dynamic
Recordable buttons
Word of the day
Social playlists
Eating together, looking for opportunities to share and get to know one another outside of work context
Socialising together (being inclusive, not always at the bar!)
Nonsense
Philips hue, games etc
Socialise together but remember to do it inclusively.
Bowling, escape rooms, etc
Try to mix things up from evenings out to early breakfasts to accomodate peoples needs
Have lunch together
Celebrate holidays together
Include everyone (Gluten Free Cinamon buns)
Silly games, caption competition, jokes and fun can increase team morale and spirit.
Gustaf and his hatred of JavaScript came to the fore in the Caption Competition
Allow sufficient time to the team to gel
Higher performing teams are happier at their jobs
Word of the day
Social playlist
Recordable buttons
Christmas music