Your Team as a Distributed System • Andrew Harvey • YOW! 2019 - Part 2

Continue. analysis pitch Andrew Harvey It should be noted that after consideration fallacies of distributed computing It moves on to the SPOF problem. (single point of failure), which in teams may be Leadership is the Way to Micromanagement Rockstar developer - here the author proposes to transform rockstar into jazz musician:)

And then he talks about how to scale teams and what approaches can be used from engineering.

• Monitoring You need to monitor what is happening in teams, you need to be able to ask the right questions to yourself and the team, use one2one and skip-levels.
• Conflict resolution You need to be able to detect and resolve conflicts and create a safe space.
• Communication The leader should tell what the team is doing and why, give additional context so that everyone in the team understands it. And it costs the leader a lot of power.
• Clarity of roles It is important for the leader to make sure that everyone understands their roles and responsibilities.

Well, it ends with the mention of culture and that she eats strategy for breakfast. ~~zarathustra~~ Peter Drucker:)

P.S. On the topic of culture and scaling it into teams, I recommend reading the following materials:

• Previous Post Google’s Project Aristotle
• A Typology of Organizational Cultures
• Software Engineering at Google – Titus Winters & Matt Kulukundis
• Post about the book “No Rules”. Netflix's unique culture (No Rules Rules. Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention)”
• Post about the book “Corporation of Geniuses” (Creativity, Inc)About Pixar
• Book Review: Hit Refresh about Microsoft
• Post about "Corporate Tribe" (“The corporate tribe”)

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