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084 ColdFusion High-Performance Teams (15 tips and technique) with Jorge Reyes

Sep 3, 2018

Jorge Reyes talks about “ColdFusion High-Performance Teams (15 tips and technique)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

  • Why High-Performance Teams
    • Distrust
    • Fear conflict
    • Lack of commitment
    • Avoid accountability
    • Inattention to results
  • What do you mean by High Performance
    • Efficient
    • Reliable
    • Effective
    • Consistent
    • Predictable - Product expected results
  • The Projectized Organization
    • PM is king
  • People > Process
    • Servant Leadership
    • Team rules and processes
    • Help team members grow in tech and interpersonal skills
    • Generalizing specialists
    • Empower and encourage emerging leaders
    • Learn team motivators and demotivators
    • Encourage communication via slack or other collaboration tools
    • Shield team from distractions
    • Track performance and forecast
    • Share project Vision
  • Agile teams vs hierarchical teams
    • Self-organizing
    • Servant Leader-Facilitator
  • Everyone knows their Roles
    • Biz representatives - does and don’t
      • Can
        • Prioritizes features
        • Makes change requests
        • Provides the acceptance criteria
      • Can not
        • Change features or priorities
        • Decide due date
        • Attend planning meetings or retrospectives
    • Scrum master
      • Facilitates team and biz reps
      • Coaches
      • Servant leader
      • Follows up
    • Project sponsor
    • Dev team
      • Front End
      • Code
      • Test
      • DevOps
  • Team > lone development or talent
    • Even if Luis the CEO is on the team
  • Team Evolution
    • Forming → storming → norming → performing
  • High-Performance Teams
    • Performing stage of team evolution
    • < 12 members
    • Complementary skills
    • Generalizing Specialists
      • Can switch roles and hence resolve bottlenecks
    • Committed to the common vision
      • Buy into the company culture
      • Team members are seen as important to the project
    • Mutual accountability
    • Shared ownership of project outcome
  • Skill learning
    • Mentors
    • Shu-Ha-Ri skill mastery
    • Dreyfus model
      • Novice → Beginner → Competent → Proficient → Expert
  • Motivation
  • Experimenting and Failing safely
    • Constructive disagreement
    • Honesty, transparent
    • Values > tech skills
    • “Throwing people into the fire”
      • A hard task a bit above what they already know
      • with the support of mentors
      • For growth and motivation
  • Distributed teams
  • Team tools
    • Video conferencing - Zoom
      • Cameras on to see body language
      • Focus on meeting
    • IM - Slack and email
    • Keban boards - Trello, JIRA
    • Online calendar - Google, Outlook, iCal
  • Conf call tips
    • Keep to time limits (15 min for stand-ups)
      • Have a timekeeper on the team who pays attention and reminds
      • Culture of integrity
      • Start on time and end on time
    • Agenda
    • Very clear of expectations - be up front of my role as the meditator for meeting
    • Document and record
  • Burndown chart
  • Burn up chart
    • Estimating release date
  • Team velocity
  • CF summit
    • Luis, Gavin, Jon from Ortus are speaking
    • Post-summit training on ColdBox (2 days)
  • Ortus Roadshow - containers 2?
  • Why are you proud to use CF?
  • WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
  • What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas?

 

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Bio

Jorge is a passionate Industrial Engineer born in El Salvador with 7 years of experience managing projects. Business manager at Ortus Solutions, Corp.

 

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