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A story about a small team, taking on a competition to build a robot. With 3 weeks, and huge learning curve and some agile ideas the team beat 57 other teams from across the globe to come third in only 3 weeks.
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Eco
A story not about robots
Me
Dreamer, tinkerer, adventurer, developer
@axshaw
This session @
• Trust & Motivation deliver great results.• Roles really break everything.• T shaped people are crippling your creativity.• 3 people decisions
• And a Robot called Eco
………ish
Some Agile Ideas
But without…
Boards,Stand-ups,
Stories,Estimation,
Velocity,Lead / Seniors / PM / <Key decision maker>
OrBurning anything
March 2014
18106!
Bill from EON
• rage
rage
Rob
Twitter in the afternoon
@thestart
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius
Inception
What happened in that meeting
• Established Why / Intent• Established motivation• Defined speed• Outlined trust
Fight the rising cost of energy and save our planet.
By creating an intelligent, environmentally driven platform, automating decisions,
empowering data and reducing cognitive load.
We build Robots
….. And we really want to compete in Vienna
T-Shaped People
vs
What we Learnt
• Mitigate hero coders (its probably going to happen)• Teams aren’t the places for soapboxes• Anything is possible
What can you try
• Intent – make it clear – personal and team• Reach out and trust your team• Active Learning
Do Something