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Six Feet Up |
Accelerate your SDLC |
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO, Six Feet Up |
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IT Leaders November 2023 |
2023 |
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- Nowadays, the world runs on software
- If you want to impact the world, you will want to be as productive as possible
- quick intro :::
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- Team Survey
- Velocity Happiness :::
- 6 Globally Distributed Teams
- Some Poorly Performing
- Goal to Improve Delivery Velocity
- Assumptions:
- Poor Test Coverage?
- Technical Debt?
::: notes engaged 6 teams to interview a subset of people from each team 80 hours of work for the 6 teams :::
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- Initial thoughts on lack of velocity :::
- Interviewed 6 Teams
- Used a sampling of people
- About 6 hours per team in just interviews
- Uncovered many more issues
::: notes Out of over 30 teams Using our own internal knowledge as a guide :::
- 4 Stages, 19 Units
::: notes Each stage builds upon another
- Build
- Execute
- Streamline
- Transform
choose to focus on top 3 best to know the business :::
- Leverage Cross-Team Pollination
::: notes We discovered that there were more issues to blame But there were some teams with strong practices The story of Pete and Andy :::
- Rely on surveys, not interviews
- Aggregate results at the team level
- Identify areas of synergy
::: notes
- Interviews are time-consuming and biased:
- not everybody was invited
- not everybody who was invited spoke their minds
- a survey would be much better
- make sure it aggregates results at the team level, not the individual level :::
- Identify your best SDLC practices
- Order them according to priority
- Develop questions with only 3 options (for ease of scoring)
- Have everyone take the survey
- Identify your internal domains of expertise and leverage them
- Repeat every 6 months and monitor progress
::: notes
- Engage the audience: Show QR code to a PDF of our 4 stages and 19 units w contact info :::
::: notes 4 stages, 19 units, 90 questions Note to crowd, we are continuously evolving these each time we use these tools :::
::: notes
- Team Report Heatmaps highlight areas that require attention
- You get practical recommendations on 90 datapoints
- For organizations with more than one dev teams, BEST will generate Performance Radar Maps that identify the top performing teams and empower your best developers to share their effective processes and knowledge.
- This gives you all great insights when talking to your bosses about improving things in your teams :::
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