5 guys and a Robot. A story not about robots
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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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- 1. Eco A story not about robots
- 2. Me Dreamer, tinkerer, adventurer, developer @axshaw
- 3. 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
- 5. ………ish
- 6. Some Agile Ideas But without… Boards, Stand-ups, Stories, Estimation, Velocity, Lead / Seniors / PM / <Key decision maker> Or Burning anything
- 8. March 2014
- 10. • rage rage
- 17. Rob
- 18. Twitter in the afternoon
- 19. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius @thestart
- 20. Inception
- 21. What happened in that meeting • Established Why / Intent • Established motivation • Defined speed • Outlined trust
- 22. Fight the rising cost of energy and save our planet.
- 23. By creating an intelligent, environmentally driven platform, automating decisions, empowering data and reducing cognitive load.
- 24. We build Robots ….. And we really want to compete in Vienna
- 30. T-Shaped People
- 35. vs
- 37. What we Learnt • Mitigate hero coders (its probably going to happen) • Teams aren’t the places for soapboxes • Anything is possible
- 38. What can you try • Intent – make it clear – personal and team • Reach out and trust your team • Active Learning
- 40. Do Something
Editor's Notes
- Behind every great tech is a team of geeks
- MH 370 Same sex marriage – royal asscent march 12 Kate francis of oklahoma city March 25 Russia begin its support
- Problem with energy bills is they arentt straight forward……. They should be, but they aren’t. Tariff, Mw per hour, rate, time of day, How do I really know what my energy consumption is …….. But worse still
- What if they only way I could tell this is by accepting they were right. And that the best way to understand the true cost of my energy usage is to trust the people selling it to me. What if there were only 6 people that could sell it to me and they were all reputable, house hold names that had grown from years of serving their customers best interests, that would be ok right ?
- So it got me thinking.
- What would really take away all the pain.
- My house. And why not. My house could tell me when it needs attention. Take care of all my energy needs, run the washing machine when its cheapest, tweet me when the bulbs blow, report back on rooms I heat and don’t use, lights I leave on, give me advice on how to work better. NOT NEST, OR HIVE, but a home that really takes care of me and my family. Independantly ….. And then just imagine, my home could become the broker for my electricy, I don’t have to swtich, - the best solution to a problem is to take it away.
- Next day – today programme, energy rises interview from ofgem etc
- If you ever need encouragement talk to an ironman – especially one who loves solving problems and whos favourite phrase is “do it”
- Get poked by twitter
- Conversations led to this. Archiecture on the back on an index card – with room to spare
- Project inception at 5pm Agreed vision / goal - Give it everything we have Work outside standard office hours Not everyone believed from the start – but they trusted Approach to architecture (small discrete sections – agreed to work on contracts – no overall powerful decision maker) Agreed approach – person take on each “service” to do research and return with ideas and thoughts on approach for discussion – including technology around that area Self-selected Domain expert – based on fun (passion), experience (value) & idea (creativity) Process – nothing decided, come back to it once we’ve slept on it.
- Trust increases performance Research in Jorunal of applied psycology http://portal.psychology.uoguelph.ca/faculty/gill/7140/WEEK_8_Feb.27/Dirks_JAP2000.pdf Character (integrity) Agreed ethics – work in own time – voluntary (intent) Agreed intent Competence ( Linking slide – simon sinek Why/ How/ What
- What skills did we need - ingrediants Hardware, soldering, electronics, SPI, Artificial~Intelligence, AngularJS, linux, virtualisation, network protocols, HTML, Javascript, Java, NodeJS, Clojure, C++, C, vagrant, chef, Real time, software, SSH, Carpentry, Robotics, general, BASH, mongodb, memory profiling, circuit debugging, Design, bootstrap, CSS PR, Marketing, Video production, copywriting, documentation, - find the tech stack that people want to use, it helps to drive engagement. Hopefully you already have them if not learn first. Hit the books We’re going to take away all of your “capability”
- O.K No it really is ok. We’ve already placed. Motivation - Linking slide Dan Pink - Drive
- Dan pink – what motivates people – based on Science autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy – masters of our own destiny Mastery – let us become great at something we already want to do Purpose – The vision -
- Trust as in the 14 year old babysitter – Think of someone/ a team where you worked well Now think of one that didn’t work Economics of trust – trust = speed
- Character Integrity do what you say you will – commit to something and stick with it stand for something Nice guy Volunteered, agreed to take part Intent Define your motive(s) Competence Results Your track record Capabilities Talents, attitude, skills, knowledge, style lifelong learning know where you are going
- Problem with T Creates silos of knowledge Creates super heroes Re-inforces role sterotypes – I know therefore I am senior If you have roles – even perceived – it can reduce trust, creates silos and zones of responsibility Breaks true model of mentoring and support. Worst of all it re-inforces the patterns that kill creativity
- Patterns. T shape reinforces patterns – patterns are bad for creativity
- Intent countered poor depth. Capability becomes more about integrity and intent We trusted that we didn’t know. Because it freed us to be creative.
- What about this no leader thing how do you make decisions How to deal with differences without any heirarchy
- MR DOMAIN MISS CONTEXT MR NIEVE Equally important No heirarchy Makes it a bit more fun Any 3 people in any role
- If you’re a senior trust your juniors – let them define their own solution and learn from it Introduce process where it adds value not mitigates risk Embrace EVERY idea, and throw a couple of crazy ones out yourself.
- What Happened to the Robot