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Team productivity is the measure of how efficiently a team is able to complete tasks. It involves both the quality and quantity of work that is completed in a given amount of time. In terms of JavaScript, it is the ability of a team to develop high-quality code quickly and efficiently. This may involve creating new features, debugging existing code, or improving the performance of an application. Team productivity also requires effective communication between all members of the team, as well as good project management practices.
Principles for Scaling Frontend Application Development
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
26 min
Principles for Scaling Frontend Application Development
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This Talk discusses scaling front-end applications through principles such as tearing down barriers, sharing code in a monorepo, and making it easy to delete code. It also emphasizes incremental migration, embracing lack of knowledge, and eliminating systematic complexity. The Talk highlights the use of automation in code migration and the importance of removing barriers to enable smoother code migration.
A Framework for Managing Technical Debt
TechLead Conference 2023TechLead Conference 2023
35 min
A Framework for Managing Technical Debt
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Today's Talk discusses the importance of managing technical debt through refactoring practices, prioritization, and planning. Successful refactoring requires establishing guidelines, maintaining an inventory, and implementing a process. Celebrating success and ensuring resilience are key to building a strong refactoring culture. Visibility, support, and transparent communication are crucial for addressing technical debt effectively. The team's responsibilities, operating style, and availability should be transparent to product managers.
Fighting Technical Debt With Continuous Refactoring
React Day Berlin 2022React Day Berlin 2022
29 min
Fighting Technical Debt With Continuous Refactoring
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This Talk discusses the importance of refactoring in software development and engineering. It introduces a framework called the three pillars of refactoring: practices, inventory, and process. The Talk emphasizes the need for clear practices, understanding of technical debt, and a well-defined process for successful refactoring. It also highlights the importance of visibility, reward, and resilience in the refactoring process. The Talk concludes by discussing the role of ownership, management, and prioritization in managing technical debt and refactoring efforts.
Building High-Performing Cross-Cultural Teams
React Day Berlin 2022React Day Berlin 2022
25 min
Building High-Performing Cross-Cultural Teams
The Talk discusses the importance of effective communication and collaboration in cross-cultural teams. It emphasizes the impact of culture on communication and performance evaluation. The speaker highlights the differences between low-context and high-context communication styles and the need to understand cultural nuances. It also explores the challenges of giving feedback in multicultural teams and suggests ways to improve communication and create a feedback culture. The influence of language on communication and the importance of transparency and honesty in feedback are also discussed.
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: A Manager's Guide to Helping New Developers Thrive
TechLead Conference 2024TechLead Conference 2024
35 min
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: A Manager's Guide to Helping New Developers Thrive
Workshop
Andrew Coleburn
Andrew Coleburn
Onboarding to a new project can be difficult, no matter your background and experience. But it can be especially challenging for new developers straight out of school or a coding bootcamp. Drawing on personal experience as a bootcamp grad and JavaScript consultant, this talk will discuss tips and strategies for managers to help the new developers on their teams get their bearings in an unfamiliar codebase, so they can make more of an impact, faster!
Managers Are From Mars, Devs Are From Venus
TechLead Conference 2024TechLead Conference 2024
111 min
Managers Are From Mars, Devs Are From Venus
Workshop
Mo Khazali
Mo Khazali
A Developer’s Guide to Communicating, Convincing, and Collaborating Effectively With Stakeholders
It’s a tale as old as time - collaboration between developers and business stakeholders has long been a challenge, with a lack of clear communication often leaving both sides frustrated. The best developers can deeply understand their business counterparts’ needs, effectively communicate technical strategy without losing the non-technical crowd, and convince the business to make the right decisions. Working at a consultancy, I’ve both failed and succeeded in architecting and “selling” technical visions, learning many lessons along the way.Whether you work at a product company, are a consultant/freelancer, or want to venture beyond just being a developer, the ability to convince and clearly communicate with stakeholders can set you apart in the tech industry. This becomes even more important with the rise of GenAI and the increasingly competitive developer market, as problem-solving and effective communication are key to positioning yourself.In this workshop, I’ll share real-world examples, both good and bad, and guide you through putting the theory into practice through dojos.
From Engineer to Leader: A Workshop for First-Time Tech Leaders
TechLead Conference 2024TechLead Conference 2024
144 min
From Engineer to Leader: A Workshop for First-Time Tech Leaders
Workshop
Andrew Murphy
Andrew Murphy
Transitioning from an individual contributor role to a leadership position, especially in the fast-paced tech industry, is hugely challenging. Most new leaders don't receive any training at all in the first 10 years of their new responsibilities.Our comprehensive workshop is designed to assist new and emerging tech leaders in understanding their new roles and gaining the skills to make them confident, happy and effective leaders.
Tech Leadership Is More About People Than Tech
C3 Dev Festival 2024C3 Dev Festival 2024
27 min
Tech Leadership Is More About People Than Tech
Tech leadership is more about people than tech, as tech problems are usually people problems. Developing soft skills, such as active listening and giving feedback, is crucial for tech leaders to build high-performing teams. To solve people problems, step away from the issue, reflect, and communicate with others. Transitioning to a tech leadership role requires specific education and resources, while choosing between management and specializing involves understanding personal strengths and goals. Maintaining momentum and support requires tracking progress, building a CV, and seeking assistance when needed.
Not Your Everyday Tech Lead: What Does It Mean To Be TL in a Lean Software Company?
TechLead Conference 2024TechLead Conference 2024
20 min
Not Your Everyday Tech Lead: What Does It Mean To Be TL in a Lean Software Company?
The Talk discusses the role of a tech lead in a lean software company. It highlights the importance of understanding the distinction between a senior developer and a tech lead. The speaker shares their experience of focusing on immediate issues rather than addressing root causes, leading to burnout. The Talk emphasizes the mentor model of management and the shift in perspective it brings. It also explores the principles of lean and problem-solving techniques in a lean company. The role of a tech lead is to implement solutions, standardize processes, and create optimal conditions for developers.
The Power of a Second Brain in a Developer's Workflow
C3 Dev Festival 2024C3 Dev Festival 2024
8 min
The Power of a Second Brain in a Developer's Workflow
The Talk emphasizes the importance of maintaining a second brain, a curated collection of digital notes, to enhance memory retention in software engineering. Building a second brain helps in recalling information, problem-solving, and retention. It is easy to create your own second brain using various tool options like Notion, Obsidian, Reflect, Rome Research, and Tana. Starting with small, self-contained notes and gradually expanding to form a mesh of related information is recommended for effective learning and retention.
The Entanglement of Concerns between People and Software Development
C3 Dev Festival 2024C3 Dev Festival 2024
8 min
The Entanglement of Concerns between People and Software Development
As a software developer, the entanglement between people and the software they develop is important. Legacy software poses challenges due to lack of time, understandability, and optimization. Legacy systems in health care face similar challenges. Microsoft's evolution and innovation highlight the value of change. Developing adaptable and user-friendly software requires considering the interconnectedness of all actors.
The Art of Influence: Empowering Developers' Team Collaboration
C3 Dev Festival 2024C3 Dev Festival 2024
10 min
The Art of Influence: Empowering Developers' Team Collaboration
The Talk explores the art of influence and collaboration in software development. It emphasizes the importance of effective communication, building relationships, and using social proof to increase influence. The speaker highlights the challenges that arise in cross-functional teams and the need for better collaboration skills. Building connections, fostering trust, and addressing team issues openly are crucial for successful collaboration.
A Tale of the Flip Floppers. From Engineer to Manager and Back Again
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
7 min
A Tale of the Flip Floppers. From Engineer to Manager and Back Again
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This talk explores the experience of flip-flopping between being an engineer and a manager in the software development field. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining hands-on technical skills for effective engineering management. The talk also highlights the value of managers having recent technical experience and the importance of leadership from both managers and senior engineers. Overall, the talk encourages those considering a transition to management to go for it and emphasizes the unique role of an engineering manager.
React Code Reviews in Open Source: Ensuring Quality and Collaboration
React Advanced 2023React Advanced 2023
6 min
React Code Reviews in Open Source: Ensuring Quality and Collaboration
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Open Source promotes accessibility, inclusivity, collaboration, innovation, transparency, and trust. Code reviews are a collaborative process in software development, with challenges including language barriers, documentation changes, and review backlog. Best practices for effective code reviews include clear objectives, focusing on the code, and using code review tools. Linters are important for scanning code issues, and measuring success in code reviews can be done using key metrics. React Code Reviews are crucial for the success of open-source projects.
A Quick and Complete Guide to Measuring Your Tech Debt and Using the Results
TechLead Conference 2023TechLead Conference 2023
27 min
A Quick and Complete Guide to Measuring Your Tech Debt and Using the Results
This Talk discusses the measurement and interpretation of tech lead, focusing on tech debt. Tech debt is a tool to temporarily speed up development but can have negative consequences if not managed properly. Various tech debt metrics, including heuristic metrics and second-tier metrics, can help identify and manage tech debt. Tech debt interest is crucial for measuring the impact of tech debt and allows for prioritization. It is important to collect and analyze tech debt metrics to ensure software and team health.
Why Scaling Bottom-up? How Teams’ Interactions Should Impact the Organizational Structure
TechLead Conference 2023TechLead Conference 2023
17 min
Why Scaling Bottom-up? How Teams’ Interactions Should Impact the Organizational Structure
The Talk discusses the importance of organizational layout and Teams interactions in software development. It explores the challenges of organizational shards and the need for problem thinking to optimize team communication. The concepts of loose coupling, high cohesion, and clear domains of responsibility are explained. The Talk also emphasizes the three essential team interaction modes: working closely together, X as a service, and facilitation. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of understanding domains, boundaries, and domain-driven design for efficient work and fast delivery.
The Power of Pairs
TechLead Conference 2023TechLead Conference 2023
21 min
The Power of Pairs
Pair programming is a collaborative software development technique where two developers work together at one workstation. It offers benefits such as easier code maintenance, faster code reviews, and reduced likelihood of bugs. Implementing pair programming involves finding compatible partners, setting goals, and establishing clear communication protocols. To address challenges, provide training and support, involve team members in decision-making, and carefully select partners. Pair programming can help achieve goals like collaboration, knowledge growth, code stability, and maintenance.
The Game Theory of Software Decision Making
TechLead Conference 2023TechLead Conference 2023
18 min
The Game Theory of Software Decision Making
Today's talk is about the Game Theory of Software Decisions, exploring how game theory can be applied to software development. The speaker shares tips on creating a productive team environment and effective decision-making. They emphasize the importance of letting go of unimportant things and focusing on what's best for the project. The talk also discusses handling coding dilemmas and decision-making, suggesting strategies such as defining KPIs and consulting a neutral jury. The speaker concludes by emphasizing the importance of staying rational, bringing data, and maintaining professionalism in software development.
Scale Your React App without Micro-frontends
React Summit 2022React Summit 2022
21 min
Scale Your React App without Micro-frontends
This Talk discusses scaling a React app without micro-frontend and the challenges of a growing codebase. Annex is introduced as a tool for smart rebuilds and computation caching. The importance of libraries in organizing code and promoting clean architecture is emphasized. The use of caching, NxCloud, and incremental build for optimization is explored. Updating dependencies and utilizing profiling tools are suggested for further performance improvements. Splitting the app into libraries and the benefits of a build system like NX are highlighted.
How to Use Gamification to Improve Quality on Your Project
JSNation 2022JSNation 2022
13 min
How to Use Gamification to Improve Quality on Your Project
Welcome to my talk on using gamification to improve quality. Code quality is crucial and involves maintaining technical debt, ensuring maintainability, and prioritizing delivery and quality. To improve code quality, create a new standard, automate enforcement, and motivate teams. Resolving merge conflicts by removing warnings and automating warning decrease and error reduction can prevent future issues. Strive for zero errors by finding a balance, enhancing tools, blocking pull requests with errors, and incentivizing developers.
Gaming the System: How Video Games Can Help us Create More Effective Virtual Teams
DevOps.js Conf 2022DevOps.js Conf 2022
7 min
Gaming the System: How Video Games Can Help us Create More Effective Virtual Teams
Today's Talk explores the lessons that video games can teach us about building virtual teams. The impact of communication on software development is discussed, highlighting the importance of understanding software for successful deployment. The concept of collective intelligence is introduced, emphasizing the role of social perceptiveness, cognitive diversity, and equal distribution of communication. The Talk also emphasizes the need to optimize team performance with key metrics and suggests keeping teams small and cross-functional to enable easy communication and lower cognitive loads.
Releasing JavaScript Applications Faster with Feature Flags
DevOps.js Conf 2022DevOps.js Conf 2022
10 min
Releasing JavaScript Applications Faster with Feature Flags
Welcome to the Releasing React Apps Faster with Feature Flags talk. Feature flags alleviate problems in the development process by allowing for the creation of feature flags instead of branches. By using feature flags, incomplete versions can be deployed, reviewed, approved, merged, and deployed without errors for customers. Feature flags also enable low-risk deployments, testing in production, gradual release processes, and the ability to quickly turn off features if issues arise.
Orders & Magnitude
Node Congress 2022Node Congress 2022
7 min
Orders & Magnitude
The Talk discusses the relationship between complexity and collaboration in software development. It highlights that collaboration is not always the answer to solving problems and that communication is crucial in software development. The concept of collective intelligence is introduced, which describes a group's capability to perform well together across tasks. The study mentioned in the Talk shows that collective intelligence is transferable among tasks, and skilled players rely on nonverbal cues and understanding the software. Lack of understanding can lead to difficulties in team performance and deployment.
Remote Team Collaboration Techniques
React Advanced 2021React Advanced 2021
24 min
Remote Team Collaboration Techniques
Welcome to Remote Team Collaboration Techniques. Telecommuting has led to professional isolation and a lack of networking and mentoring. Companies are encouraged to adapt their work policies to the new reality of telework. Remote work has impacted stress levels and employee autonomy, but not productivity. GitHub and Jamstack are effective collaboration tools. Mob pairing promotes learning and progress in projects. Engaging in fun activities and taking breaks from work can boost team morale.
How Your Architecture and Infrastructure Can Make (or Break) Your Team’s Productivity
JSNation Live 2021JSNation Live 2021
8 min
How Your Architecture and Infrastructure Can Make (or Break) Your Team’s Productivity
Today's Talk discusses how architecture and infrastructure choices impact team productivity. Complex systems can lead to frustration, fragility, and slowness, hindering efficiency and creating knowledge silos. Decoupled front-ends, pre-compiled front-ends, and serverless functions can improve productivity and enable faster deployment. Supportive architectures are crucial for building a shipping culture and avoiding frustrating, fragile, and slow systems.
How to Code Boring Internal Apps 10x Faster
JSNation Live 2021JSNation Live 2021
7 min
How to Code Boring Internal Apps 10x Faster
ReTool is a platform that focuses on building internal tools quickly. It offers easy integrations with databases and APIs, supports custom React components and JavaScript libraries, and provides extensive support and deployment options. Developers can try it out at retool.com.
Accelerating Code Quality with DORA Metrics
JSNation Live 2021JSNation Live 2021
27 min
Accelerating Code Quality with DORA Metrics
This Talk discusses the Dora Metrics and their relation to continuous code improvement. High and elite performers deploy more frequently and have a lower change failure rate. Continuous code improvement involves identifying and fixing bugs in real time. Rollbar is a continuous code improvement platform that provides visibility into actionable errors. It helps organizations reduce the risk of losing customers and optimize developer productivity. Rollbar's unique error fingerprints and advanced features enable a deeper understanding of issues and faster resolution.