Another session that I sat in on today was "Open communication, Resistance to change, Going with the status quo with reference to the various roles on the team "
If I could wrap up the entire session in a phrase it would be the following:
When your team feels empowerment and has passion they will be successful
Below are my notes, sorry they are not in a long descriptive form, but they are notes :)
Quotes:
The product champion doesn't figure out what the market wants, but brings the team to the customer
Without a good leader, or a champion of the team your team is doomed to fail
Quailty is building a substainable releationship
the value of value is realitive worth
When you do not have the fear of being fired you can become more open
Questions:
- What are the barries to opening communication
- Management/customer sees the release cycle/process as a tax - How are we defining Continous Improvement?
- taking notices of our process our, release cycle
- balancing various items like maintainability, without over engineering our product - What is value????
- this means differnt things to different people
- means that someone will always be unhappy
- operations has more work with more installs -- they are unhappy
- developers have have more pressure if they have more work load
- one persons pain is another persons pleasure - How do we make change when we are capiable of influincing change, but not the permissionr
- start local
- start small
- hope your ideals spread - How do we move from me to we
- get buy in from all on the team goal
- get ownership
- have pride/passion - How do we get a team to become engaged or passionate
- ownership
- self correction, self moderation
- foster that the project will be a success
- stay positive - 4 areas of improvement
- improvement of skills on the team
- improvement of the purpose of the product
- improvement of the process
- improvement of the releationships
Till next time,