Team Building
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A Neurobiologist's Guide to Empowering Your Team
A useful-psychology double-whammy: (A) Developers are great systems thinkers. Surprise: your brain is a system too! Reframe frustration into accomplishment, and become a more effective and bubbly person using a frontal cortex feedback loop. (B) Want your team to be the happiest, most productive...
The Story of Teams Autonomy and Servant Leadership
When faced a tremendous growth, company may have a problem - how to motivate all their employees and set them for success? One of the possible solutions we experimented with at Booking.com was idea of having autonomous teams - teams without direct managers (team leads) and where each and every...
Breaking Codes, Designing Jets and Building Teams
Throughout engineering history, focused and empowered teams have consistently achieved the near-impossible. Alan Turing, Tommy Flowers, and their teams at Bletchley Park broke Nazi codes, saved their country, and brought down the Third Reich. Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works designed...
Interviews
A Neurobiologist's Guide to Empowering Your Team
Tell me a bit about yourself.
I have a background in psychology and I’m co-author on several neurobiology publications. That makes me more qualified than the average person to talk about psychology principles. I understand their low level mechanisms, how they work. And as a developer, I can communicate these particularly clearly to tech-minded people as well.
Read Full InterviewThe Story of Teams Autonomy and Servant Leadership
You are with booking.com. What do you do there?
My current title is called Senior Developer and Team Lead. I look after two teams which belong to the business booking organization which is aimed toward business customers. Those who travel for business, those who organize travel for others, an enterprise solution on our platform. My day is mostly solving team problems and helping...
Read Full InterviewFrom Software Development to ML - A Team's Transformation
QCon: What is the focus of your work?
Sally: Almost a year ago, I quit my job to finish my Phd. in AI and BioInformatics. It involves the use of AI techniques in the research of genetics and computational biology. Based on my Phd. research, I am also starting a company in the same space.
Read Full InterviewDynamic Reteaming: The Art & Wisdom of Changing Teams
Tell me a bit about the work that you do.
I work at Procore Technologies. We're in Southern California, and we make software for the construction industry. I work as Director of Engineering Excellence. In my role, I teach and mentor on Agile software development best practices. I coach teams and individuals to help them get better at what they do. I also facilitate large...
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