Farhan shares his knowledge about attracting GREAT people to work with and then how to keep them. Lots more tips from his experience managing agile teams including processes and tools.

1. MANAGING
AN
AGILE
TEAM
FARHAN THAWAR, VP ENGINEERING!
Sep 28th 2011!
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2. SHORT
BIO
• Coding
since
1986
• Managing
coders
since
1998
• Current
team
is
~100
agile
engineers
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3. AGENDA
1. Great
(not
good)
People
2. Lightweight
Process
3. Cadence
loop
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4. ATTRACTING
GREAT
PEOPLE
• Other
smart
people
• Interviews
• hard
problems
• coding
• propensity
to
acHon
• Speed
of
decisions
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5. RETAINING
GREAT
PEOPLE
• Dan
Pink
• Mastery
• Autonomy
• Purpose
• Great
people
are
10x
good
people
• Be
the
"unblocker”
• Less
process
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6. PROCESS
• Agile
the
Xtreme
Labs
way
• Pivotal
Labs
• Pair
programming
• Fixed
hours
–
no
WFH
• Few
meeHngs
• Decisions
over
deliberaHon
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7. PROCESS
(TOOLS)
• Prefer
talking
over
email
• Ranking
from
1..N
(not
high/med/low)
• Pivotal
Tracker
• Agile
team
room
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8. RESULTS
• Daily
• Company
standup
• Pla[orm
standup
• Team
standup
• Weekly
• Send
to
QA
• Ship
to
customer
• Demo
to
company
• Project
• Kickoff
physically
with
customer
• Submit
to
appStore
• RetrospecHve
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