JavaScript Jabber

053 JSJ Software Team Dynamics


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 PanelJoe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)
Discussion
 02:48 - External ConflictsDealing with people outside your own team
07:04 - Areas of Expertise
 08:45 - Expectations and DeadlinesMultiple Layers of Hierarchy Differences in Goals
13:47 - Flatter Structure Approach
 15:21 - The Search for DevelopersFinding the ideal people What makes an ‘A Player’? Intellectual Capability
19:47 - Team Scaling/ Scaling AgileScaling Agile @ Spotify How Stripe Builds Software, with Greg Brockman
25:10 - Team Diversity
 29:57 - Team DynamicsAttitude Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Joe)
35:00 - Specialization
 40:08 - Dealing with someone you don’t likeCircumventing Confrontation
50:52 - Dealing with a non-engaged personPicksHonest and open conversations (Merrick) Noah Gundersen (Merrick) Oz the Great and Powerful (Joe) Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Joe) The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown (Joe) King of Tokyo (Joe) AngularJS (Joe) Kiki's Delivery Service (Jamison) Local 0.2.2 (Jamison) Ciaran Jessup (AJ) Psych Season 7 (AJ) Google+ Hangouts (AJ) ScreenFlow (AJ) Jing (Chuck) Transmit (Chuck)
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 CHUCK:  So, team dynamics this week?JOE:  Sorry, is that our discussion or is that what we decided to call ourselves?[Laughter]CHUCK:  It’s our discussion topic this week.AJ:  We are Team Dynamics.JOE:  Because if we’re going with names, I would like to submit the Wolverines.CHUCK:  The Wolverines? I think it’s taken by a University around here.AJ:  Yeah, and my high school back in Virginia, and that dude from New Zealand who plays in X-Men.CHUCK:  That dude?AJ:  Yeah, that dude, Hugh Jackman.CHUCK:  [Chuckles][Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.][This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 53 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.JOE:  Hi there.CHUCK:  Jamison Dance.JAMISON:  Hello, my mission is to bring calm to the boiling cauldron of hate that is the Internet.CHUCK:  AJ O’Neal.AJ:  Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the pulling my hair out over Iowa.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  What up?CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv and don’t forget to use that code to get into Fluent Conf.MERRICK:  It’s a big conference. You can go to FluentConf.com for the schedule, happens May 28th to the 30th, it’s at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. And for our listeners, you can actually get 20% off on your ticket using JAVAJAB. And that will give you 20% off on the registration.CHUCK:  This week, we’re going to be talking about team dynamics and all the fun stuff that goes with it. To start us off, I kind of want to ask because I always get good stories from people when I ask questions like this. What is your worst team experience?JOE:  That’s quite a way to start it off. It sounds like a good way to get me to burn some bridges.AJ:  No, no, I know this one…JAMISON:  I played little league and I was scared of the ball. And I had the bat and I was really short and they wanted me to bat first because I’d be walked all the time to get on base but I just wanted to quit.

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