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Essentials Every Non-Technical Person Need To Know To Build The Best Tech-Team by Pau Ramon
The document focuses on effective tech-team management, emphasizing recruitment strategies that prioritize motivated generalists over specialists. It discusses operational optimization through understanding system dynamics like synchronicity and queue management, as well as fostering a collaborative team culture. Success is framed as balancing scope, resources, time, and motivation, promoting autonomy and teamwork over competition.
Essentials Every Non-Technical Person Need To Know To Build The Best Tech-Team by Pau Ramon
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- 3. Management “ To coordinatethe efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively”
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- 5. Bewareof bullshit • Learnfrom others • Every company is different • Don’t copy: common sense
- 6. Whatisthistalkabout? • Recruitment • Optimization •Growth • Success
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- 8. Seduction • Go meetinteresting people • Interview? Go for a coffee! • Talk and listen, seduce and be seduced
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- 10. WhoshouldIhire? Bet on motivatedgeneralists. ! Knowledge is easy and fast to acquire, talent is not.
- 11. WhoshouldIhire? Invest for thelong term: Experience within the company is the most valuable asset
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- 19. Synchronicity • Inefficient inunstable systems • Less overhead • Not flexible
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- 22. Asynchronicity • Less waitingtime • Requires queues • More overhead • More flexible
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- 25. Queues • Appear insaturated systems • Measurable • Ordered
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- 28. Prioritization • Agreed andarbitrary • Unfair but help focusing • Add age to the mix to avoid starvation
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- 34. Optimize! • Go asynchronous •Measure your queues • Identify your bottlenecks • Allocate people accordingly
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- 36. WhoshouldIhire? • Avoid SinglePoint of Failures • Start getting specialists but not too many • Cultural fit is important!
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- 40. Motivation • Bad: Carrotsand sticks • Good: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose http://bit.ly/1eVm5pI
- 41. Motivation • Encourage Collaborationover Competition • Set team goals, not individual • Let the team be the judge
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- 45. RulesandCulture • Rules haveto be agreed • Culture is the enforcer: Let the team be the police • After a mistake, think of a rule that could’ve prevented it
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- 47. Coordinators • They aredoers • They are responsible for the performance of the group • They are the spokeperson of the team
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