Your Team as a Distributed System • Andrew Harvey • YOW! 2019

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2019. #GOTOcon #YOW Andrew Harvey - Head of Engineering at @mootpointer RESOURCES ABSTRACT As we level up in technical roles, often we find ourselve thrust into team leadership and management. This sneaks up on us and we can be left without the skills to adequately understand, engage with and lead our teams. This inevitably has a negative effect on our teams and this effect is multiplied as you scale. What if we could reach into our toolbox that we use to understand technical problems – software architecture and distributed systems theory – to help us understand our teams? Could we learn to better manage people through this metaphor? We will explore the dynamics of teams and how they map to our understanding of distributed systems. Using this understanding we can apply distributed systems theory to help unpick some of the dynamics of our teams and how to optimise them for scale. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know • Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • Michael Jackson • Software Requirements and Specifications • Geoffrey West • Scale • Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • #Team #TechTeam #AndrewHarvey #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #DistributedSystem #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.