Supporting Teams When the Tech is Unknown
emmajane
In this session you'll learn the steps needed to support a team through their first development project with a new technology. The lessons can be applied to any team working outside of their comfort zone, but it will be of particular interest to teams who are about to embark on delivering sites with Drupal 8.
Specifically, we'll talk about how to pace your team to success by:
- Breaking down a project into achievable components and structuring an Agile schedule to deliver them.
- Promoting radical transparency between stakeholders and developers.
- Mitigating the learning curve of a new platform by building on known best practices.
- Limiting the avalanche of new information through just-in-time learning.
- Keeping each person on the team motivated and in the zone by customising how you engage, and by addressing--head-on--the anxiety which comes from building software when it feels like all your tools have changed.
The lessons are based on my own real-life experiences overseeing teams as a technical project manager with developers who were working with new technologies. From this session, you'll get practical take-aways as well as food for thought on how to succeed at one of the most difficult parts of software development: the people.