My talk from Devoxx Poland 2016.
Abstract:
Have you ever wondered why your manager pushes you to those nasty communication trainings? Why your colleagues do not understand those simple concepts that you churn through. And even worse, they complain to your boss about you! On the other hand, why that smart developer sits alone in a corner, does not share, do not PP, and hides his commits, while you could learn all from him. Why there is no “I” in a “team” word, and what is up with those teams at all, where the heck disappeared the concept of coding alone in your basement around midnight!
Lot of material, so we'll touch on each topic of : learning, working together, motivating ourselves and what are the differences between us and tools to visualize them
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• Gender diversity matters (every one now knows that, right?)
• Best performing teams are mixed (40%-60%)
– Same for customer satisfaction, predactibility, etc
• What about culture diversity?
• What about people differences?
There are serious differences between us
By CTV.ca
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• You can categorize people
• Allows you to understand who you work with
• It’s allows to understand how other may think
– And how to work with them
• There are many tools
– Thomas PPE
– DISC profile
– MBTI
– Reiss profile
– Simmons eq profile
– …
Personal diversity
By Jake Beech
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• … thought that you don’t deserve what you’ve
got?
• … was afraid that people will discover that you
are not worthy of your success
• … put on luck things you’ve done?
• … assumed that you’ve been able to trick others
in thinking that you’re worth more than in reality
• … think that other overrate your work?
Have you ever …
By Pyrlo
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• Do you have to put a different face for people
• Act in front of others
• You must take a pose at work
– Or at home
• You’re afraid to tell what you really think
Personality split?
By Geralt
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„The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a
psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments.
Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that
they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed
as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and
competent than they believe themselves to be.”
Definitions
„The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias which can manifest in one of two ways:
Unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than
is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their
ineptitude.”
18. 18CONFIDENTIAL By Meme TN
Then maybe you’ve got
• Co workers
• Friends
• Family
• Children
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• It may have influence over someone else work
• Willingness to test new technologies/languages/frameworks/techniques
• Number of ideas raised
• Number of questions asked
• One may not ask for help
• It may have influence over career
• Or it’s just nice to help someone
Impostor Syndrome :: Why does it matter to me
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• Allow yourself (and others) to fail
• Don’t build to competitive environment for your team
• Think how your perfectionism works for the others?
• How does hierarchy works for people
• …
Stress :: Environment
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If you got impostor around:
• Give honest feedback to others
• Talk about Impostor Syndrome
• Learn to say “Thank you”
If you have the problem
• Keep good feedback for worse days
• Kill your heroes
• Learn how to forget about failures
Selfhelp
By Elitrie -> Wikipedia
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• „Fake it till you make it”
• Change your language
– It’s not always “us”, sometimes it’s only
you
• Learn how to accept praise
• Learn body language
– And practice power poses
Selfhelp, part 2
By Chris Favero
No Hate, only CC-BA pic on the google web ;)
31. 34CONFIDENTIAL
In 1995, in broad daylight, McArthur Wheeler strolled into
two Pittsburg banks and robbed them with no attempt to
disguise himself. He was arrested later that night, less than
half an hour after videotapes of him taken from the
surveillance cameras were broadcast on the 11oclock
news.
When he saw the police on his door steps, Wheeler
mumbled “But I wore the juice.”
It turns out that Wheeler thought that rubbing one’s face
with lemon juice would render it invisible to videotape
cameras because lemon juice can be used to make invisible
ink.
Source By Bykst
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In 1995, in broad daylight, McArthur Wheeler strolled into
two Pittsburg banks and robbed them with no attempt to
disguise himself. He was arrested later that night, less than
half an hour after videotapes of him taken from the
surveillance cameras were broadcast on the 11oclock
news.
When he saw the police on his door steps, Wheeler
mumbled “But I wore the juice.”
Source By Bykst
It turns out that Wheeler thought that rubbing one’s
face with lemon juice would render it invisible to
videotape cameras because lemon juice can be used to
make invisible ink.
38. 41CONFIDENTIAL
• Brown bag sessions
• Internal workshops
– Team level
– Office level
• Code retreats
• Hackathons
• Study groups (certificates anyone?)
• Book clubs
• Public meetups
Build your community
By Doctormo
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• 1 day
• 6 sessions
• Software excellence
• Great field for experiment
• We don’t deliver
Code retreat