084 ColdFusion High-Performance Teams (15 tips and technique) with Jorge Reyes

September 3, 2018 By Michaela Light 1 Comment

Jorge Reyes talks about ColdFusion High-Performance Teams with some tips in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Why High-Performance Teams

Distrust
Fear conflict
Lack of commitment
Avoid accountability
Inattention to results

What do you mean by High Performance

Efficient
Reliable
Effective
Consistent
Predictable – Product expected results

The Projectized Organization

PM is king

People > Process

Servant Leadership
Team rules and processes
Help team members grow in tech and interpersonal skills
Generalizing specialists
Empower and encourage emerging leaders
Learn team motivators and demotivators
Encourage communication via slack or other collaboration tools
Shield team from distractions
Track performance and forecast
Share project Vision

Agile teams vs hierarchical teams

Self-organizing
Servant Leader-Facilitator

Everyone knows their Roles

Biz representatives – does and don’t

Can

Prioritizes features
Makes change requests
Provides the acceptance criteria

Can not

Change features or priorities
Decide due date
Attend planning meetings or retrospectives

Scrum master

Facilitates team and biz reps
Coaches
Servant leader
Follows up

Project sponsor

Dev team

Front End
Code
Test
DevOps

Team > lone development or talent

Even if Luis the CEO is on the team

Team Evolution

Forming → storming → norming → performing

High-Performance Teams

Performing stage of team evolution
< 12 members
Complementary skills
Generalizing Specialists
- Can switch roles and hence resolve bottlenecks
Committed to the common vision
- Buy into the company culture
- Team members are seen as important to the project
Mutual accountability
Shared ownership of project outcome

Skill learning

Mentors
Shu-Ha-Ri skill mastery
Dreyfus model
- Novice → Beginner → Competent → Proficient → Expert

Motivation

Experimenting and Failing safely

Constructive disagreement
Honesty, transparent
Values > tech skills
“Throwing people into the fire”
- A hard task a bit above what they already know
- with the support of mentors
- For growth and motivation

Distributed teams

Team tools

Video conferencing – Zoom
- Cameras on to see body language
- Focus on meeting
IM – Slack and email
Keban boards – Trello, JIRA
Online calendar – Google, Outlook, iCal

Conf call tips

Keep to time limits (15 min for stand-ups)
- Have a timekeeper on the team who pays attention and reminds
- Culture of integrity
- Start on time and end on time
Agenda
Very clear of expectations – be up front of my role as the meditator for meeting
Document and record

Burndown chart

Burn up chart

Estimating release date

Team velocity

CF summit

Luis, Gavin, Jon from Ortus are speaking
Post-summit training on ColdBox (2 days)

Ortus Roadshow – containers 2?

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas?

Mentioned in this episode

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Bio

Jorge Reyes

Jorge is a passionate Industrial Engineer born in El Salvador with 7 years of experience managing projects. Business manager at Ortus Solutions, Corp.

Links

Email: Jreyes (at) ortussolutions.com
Twitter
Ortus Solutions, Corp

Interview Transcript

Michaela:
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jorge Reyes from Ortus solutions, and we're gonna be talking about high performance cold fusion teams. We've got 15 tips and techniques that can make your competition teams really blossom. So we'll look at why you might want to have a high performance team. You don't have one already, and what exactly who he means by that. And we'll also look at how you can support your people over the process. And agile teams when everyone knows that we're all and you can help the T team and the team members evolve and look at some different ways you can improve the skills of your teams, and also some tool for work with distributed teams. So welcome. Whoa. Hey,

Jorge Reyes:
Michael. Thanks for having me again.

Michaela:
know, so yeah, you're so welcome. So maybe we should just start out with, you know, why should someone have a high-performance team? I know, that seems to seem we have a silly question, but not everyone has them.

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