Ring-fence the Chaos: When Technical Teams Meet Organisational Systems
Talk description:
This is talk about production team structures, inter & intra team efficiency, workflows, and organisational constraints. If you are interested in learning how to analyse your workplace to increase happiness and efficiency of your technical delivery then this is the session for you.
An organisation's technical delivery is not just about code reviews, code maintainability, story points. These are only the day-to-day processes. There are many factors (internal & external) which may affect your team's output. Do you have inter team dependencies? Do your teams cause bottlenecks for the organisation? How do you deal with forecasting, resourcing, knowledge retention & silos? How do you know if your teams are even configured well?
When dealing with a multiple production teams (with possible interdependencies) it is inevitable that you will need to understand which project management methodologies are appropriate for given teams & scenarios, and also be able to drive purposeful organisational change. CTOs, Head of Engineering and Technical Leads - I'm talking to you!
Organisational constraints are challenging, and your organisation's different service levels often demand that your teams work differently. In this talk we will discuss how to tackle all of these challenges and more with real world examples. This talk is aimed at technical and non-technical audiences interested in team and organisational efficiencies.
Our Speaker - Anthony Dang:
Anthony has worked in web development since 2007. He is active in the open source community (in particular the Umbraco CMS), and Umbraco MVP, writes tech articles, and is a regular organiser & presenter at conferences and tech meetups. He lives and breathes automation and development processes, and is a vocal proponent of Behaviour/Test Driven Development.
Anthony has experience in building high performing remote production teams spanning multiple countries. He is an Agile/Scrum/Kanban enthusiast, and is always looking for ways to make development more efficient and enjoyable. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he is now based in London.
