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

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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?

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Bio

Jorge Reyes

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

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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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