Equal Experts is a consultancy founded and run by software people. We try to take the principles we use when building products and apply them to building a company. In just over a decade we’ve grown to a 1500 person network with many great clients. We’ve learned that there are some cultural challenges you can successfully apply an engineering mindset to, but some things are harder than they first appear! Join me to learn about how we’re trying to be a different sort of company. We’re challenging traditional ways of working; we question the standard practices of hierarchical management, performance appraisals, approvals, annual budgets, etc. Instead, we’re using concepts like iterative, user-centred design, microservices, ‘devops’, monitoring and alerting and plenty of other buzzwords du jour to try to create a better place to work.
From QCON London March 2019
The topics I presented help in understanding how the innovation brought by the latest Internet generation has dramatically changed the way we communicate, collaborate and develop setting new rules by which organizations have to play if they want engage in their activities and succeed in their future.
The presentation:
* Helps in understanding how the innovation brought by the latest Internet generation has dramatically changed the way we communicate, collaborate and develop.
* Highlights the new rules by which organizations have to play if they want to succeed and engage with today's environment.
* Provides a set of concrete actions for organizations to change their DNA not simply to survive but especially to win in this new digital era.
How to Bridge the Generational Gap For a More Productive Workplace - Vaness...SocialHRCamp
People are discussing the impact that millenials (a.k.a. digital natives) are having on the world of work. Some
say digital natives are lazy, entitled and lack focus. Others comment on the clash between digital natives and
their colleagues not born into the digital era (digital immigrants).
In her documentary film "Beyond the Digital Divide: Bridging the generational gap for a more productive workplace", Vanessa will explore these issues.
In this workshop, participants will:
- Watch the documentary
- Learn how digital natives are impacting the world of work
- Understand what organizations need to do to bridge the gap between digital natives and digital immigrants at work
- Know what digital natives value and why their input is critical to the future of work
- Develop their own action plan to bridge the digital divide
We help you regain the radical innovation you lost as you grew. We pull the customer back in to the heart of your company. We let you become a network again.
We shake things up. We connect. We empower.
This is our manifesto.
A slide presentation on the solutions that Making Vision Reality can offer to customers. This includes Transformation, Innovation, Programme and Projects and workshops.
Making Sense of the Inner Workings of Digital Delivery during COVID-19Ari Hershberg
Insights we gained into the complex workings the digital delivery network found using Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker ™
Things could have gone terribly. We were all sent home, laptops now mounted on dining room tables around the province, given a slew of new digital tools, and told to solve wicked problems with a variety of people, many we’d never worked with before - faster than most any of us had ever before done. We could have missed the mark. We could have seen far greater impacts from COVID-19. Many could have been very disappointed.
Yet, when we asked our growing Digital Delivery Network to tell us about their experience navigating these circumstances, the response was positive.
In this slideshare, we’ll explore how we used a sense making tool that is unlike traditional surveys, to begin to understand the complexity of this emergent human system – this Digital Delivery Network – in our BC Public Service. We’ll share insights on what specifically we heard is needed to create the right conditions to get extraordinary results for service delivery, in uncertain, high pressure circumstances.
You’ll also hear some radical transparency on the “oops” moments we all can benefit from avoiding in the future.
These slides weren't prepared to be shared on their own. They were prepared to support the webinar. If you want the full effect, watch the webinar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS7jbKE2fUc&t=3160s
The topics I presented help in understanding how the innovation brought by the latest Internet generation has dramatically changed the way we communicate, collaborate and develop setting new rules by which organizations have to play if they want engage in their activities and succeed in their future.
The presentation:
* Helps in understanding how the innovation brought by the latest Internet generation has dramatically changed the way we communicate, collaborate and develop.
* Highlights the new rules by which organizations have to play if they want to succeed and engage with today's environment.
* Provides a set of concrete actions for organizations to change their DNA not simply to survive but especially to win in this new digital era.
How to Bridge the Generational Gap For a More Productive Workplace - Vaness...SocialHRCamp
People are discussing the impact that millenials (a.k.a. digital natives) are having on the world of work. Some
say digital natives are lazy, entitled and lack focus. Others comment on the clash between digital natives and
their colleagues not born into the digital era (digital immigrants).
In her documentary film "Beyond the Digital Divide: Bridging the generational gap for a more productive workplace", Vanessa will explore these issues.
In this workshop, participants will:
- Watch the documentary
- Learn how digital natives are impacting the world of work
- Understand what organizations need to do to bridge the gap between digital natives and digital immigrants at work
- Know what digital natives value and why their input is critical to the future of work
- Develop their own action plan to bridge the digital divide
We help you regain the radical innovation you lost as you grew. We pull the customer back in to the heart of your company. We let you become a network again.
We shake things up. We connect. We empower.
This is our manifesto.
A slide presentation on the solutions that Making Vision Reality can offer to customers. This includes Transformation, Innovation, Programme and Projects and workshops.
Making Sense of the Inner Workings of Digital Delivery during COVID-19Ari Hershberg
Insights we gained into the complex workings the digital delivery network found using Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker ™
Things could have gone terribly. We were all sent home, laptops now mounted on dining room tables around the province, given a slew of new digital tools, and told to solve wicked problems with a variety of people, many we’d never worked with before - faster than most any of us had ever before done. We could have missed the mark. We could have seen far greater impacts from COVID-19. Many could have been very disappointed.
Yet, when we asked our growing Digital Delivery Network to tell us about their experience navigating these circumstances, the response was positive.
In this slideshare, we’ll explore how we used a sense making tool that is unlike traditional surveys, to begin to understand the complexity of this emergent human system – this Digital Delivery Network – in our BC Public Service. We’ll share insights on what specifically we heard is needed to create the right conditions to get extraordinary results for service delivery, in uncertain, high pressure circumstances.
You’ll also hear some radical transparency on the “oops” moments we all can benefit from avoiding in the future.
These slides weren't prepared to be shared on their own. They were prepared to support the webinar. If you want the full effect, watch the webinar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS7jbKE2fUc&t=3160s
Lean is much more than a set of tools to reduce waste. Lean philosophy can guide enduring change in the enterprise.
You can start your lean journey today.
In this SlideShare we present an overview of what Floown is. The short answer? A SaaS platform for teams, organizations & businesses to effectively work with different people. The long answer? Well, you're gonna have to click through the SlideShare.
Disrupting class in a one to-one laptop program for laptop institutejoebires
This presentation explains how to reexamine a one-to-one laptop program and introduce more disruptive technologies (based on the work of Clay Christensen). First a meta-analysis of what research is telling us about laptop programs is presented. Then this initial presentation inspires a discussion about where laptops programs can be improved by implementing the theory of technology as a disruptive force.
35 of the most forward thinking, global CPOs gathered in Ascot, England for our annual CPO retreat, Ovation. We've compiled the key soundbites overheard across the two days of invaluable conversations and presentations.
Innovations in digital workplaces and employee experienceJames Robertson
There's a huge engagement and information management challenge within organisations. Thankfully emerging digital workplaces are starting to deliver real employee experience benefits. (Keynote by James Robertson at the Digital Workplace Experience conference in Chicago, June 2017)
We love Superheroes. But Dan Heath’s Upstream is about putting Superheroes out of business. It is about the mindset and efforts required to prevent problems; it’s about systems thinking and moving upstream - making interventions there - to attain massive long-term good.
Keynote address for #SGZA 2015 "Unlikely Heroes"
Can Agility Change the World? Bridging the Digital Divide with Agile Training
At codeX we’re developing a breakthrough education model to address the skills shortage and the digital divide, using our experience training agile teams.
We believe in changing the future, and this is a story about what we’ve learnt about agility, diversity and making real change.
Many of today's large organisations are complex (sometimes even hostile) environments where status-quo, fire-fighting and conformity crush most chances for innovation and growth.
Like Mars, they are turning into desolate, lifeless places with seemingly little to offer humans.
But it doesn't have to end this way.
In this session, Claudio will illustrate stories, strategies, katas, workflows and tools to bring "learning streams" to the surface, dramatically accelerate the rate of change and form the conditions for teams and individuals to flourish and bring the best of their work to the world.
What's the spirit of your company? At Odoo, we know that a great and motivating atmosphere is the key! It can help employees to feel better and then be proud of working for your company!
The 10 Most Innovative Business Leaders Revamping the Future.pdfCIO Look Magazine
This edition features a handful of innovative business leaders that are at the forefront of leading us into a healthy future
Read More: https://ciolook.com/the-10-most-innovative-business-leaders-revamping-the-future-july2022/
Lean is much more than a set of tools to reduce waste. Lean philosophy can guide enduring change in the enterprise.
You can start your lean journey today.
In this SlideShare we present an overview of what Floown is. The short answer? A SaaS platform for teams, organizations & businesses to effectively work with different people. The long answer? Well, you're gonna have to click through the SlideShare.
Disrupting class in a one to-one laptop program for laptop institutejoebires
This presentation explains how to reexamine a one-to-one laptop program and introduce more disruptive technologies (based on the work of Clay Christensen). First a meta-analysis of what research is telling us about laptop programs is presented. Then this initial presentation inspires a discussion about where laptops programs can be improved by implementing the theory of technology as a disruptive force.
35 of the most forward thinking, global CPOs gathered in Ascot, England for our annual CPO retreat, Ovation. We've compiled the key soundbites overheard across the two days of invaluable conversations and presentations.
Innovations in digital workplaces and employee experienceJames Robertson
There's a huge engagement and information management challenge within organisations. Thankfully emerging digital workplaces are starting to deliver real employee experience benefits. (Keynote by James Robertson at the Digital Workplace Experience conference in Chicago, June 2017)
We love Superheroes. But Dan Heath’s Upstream is about putting Superheroes out of business. It is about the mindset and efforts required to prevent problems; it’s about systems thinking and moving upstream - making interventions there - to attain massive long-term good.
Keynote address for #SGZA 2015 "Unlikely Heroes"
Can Agility Change the World? Bridging the Digital Divide with Agile Training
At codeX we’re developing a breakthrough education model to address the skills shortage and the digital divide, using our experience training agile teams.
We believe in changing the future, and this is a story about what we’ve learnt about agility, diversity and making real change.
Many of today's large organisations are complex (sometimes even hostile) environments where status-quo, fire-fighting and conformity crush most chances for innovation and growth.
Like Mars, they are turning into desolate, lifeless places with seemingly little to offer humans.
But it doesn't have to end this way.
In this session, Claudio will illustrate stories, strategies, katas, workflows and tools to bring "learning streams" to the surface, dramatically accelerate the rate of change and form the conditions for teams and individuals to flourish and bring the best of their work to the world.
What's the spirit of your company? At Odoo, we know that a great and motivating atmosphere is the key! It can help employees to feel better and then be proud of working for your company!
The 10 Most Innovative Business Leaders Revamping the Future.pdfCIO Look Magazine
This edition features a handful of innovative business leaders that are at the forefront of leading us into a healthy future
Read More: https://ciolook.com/the-10-most-innovative-business-leaders-revamping-the-future-july2022/
Our culture is the summary of who we are at meploy & what we value. It make us understand how we work together & treat each other.
This deck is our second edition and will be revised & updated during 2020.
A session about the importance of knowledge management from Dr Madhukar. This was presented in the Whatfix Inspire series where external experts are invited to speak about an impactful topic.
AES helps you believe in better. This presentation is part manifesto and part employee handbook. It’s about who we are, and what we aspire to become (and we continue to work hard to get there).
Networking as a Managerial Tool for Excellence By Dr. Gil BozerGil Bozer P.hD.
A presentation I delivered at sapir academic college on the power of internal and external networking and the need to develop & practice these skills for personal & professional success. Please feel free to share, comment & contact me.
What makes Cloudticity unique? What allows our small-ish team to win almost every time against bigger, badder, more funded competitors? It's our TEAM, which is driven by CULTURE. Read about the heart of our company here.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
4. Command and control hierarchy doesn’t work for us
We are all grown ups who don’t need
to be told what to do.
We solve problems by collaborating.
We believe good decisions are made
by the people with the right context.
5. We have grown rapidly in just over a decade
1,500 people in the Equal Experts
network
800 active consultants
290 employees
80 current clients
6. The network is what makes Equal Experts special
We’re a network of people.
Everyone contributes something
different.
We need and support each other.
We’re stronger together.
9. Early companies are undefined and relatively simple
When Equal Experts first started we
didn’t know what we would become.
The company structure was malleable.
The network grew opportunistically
and unpredictably.
10. The number of potential connections grows - fast!
There’s only so much complexity can
fit inside a human head!
It quickly becomes unmanageable for
everyone to know everyone else.
“No structure” really means “implicit
structure” and that’s dangerous.
11. How do you grow without losing
what makes you special?
12. We try to run our company the way we run software
Break a problem into smaller pieces.
Tackle it with a self-organising team.
Don’t just build; also think about how
things will operate in the future.
Inspect, learn, adapt, iterate.
14. Every business problem is a comms problem
We need to make good business
decisions, quickly and efficiently.
People most affected by the decision
(usually) have the best context.
You can’t predict who is going to need
to know something, or who can
contribute.
15. Decentralised decision making with the Advice
Process
● State your intention
● Collect feedback
● Make your decision
Sylvain Pierre,
‘Making decisions, the Advice Process way’
17. How does the Advice Process work for us in practice?
Things fall between the cracks if
everyone assumes “someone else is
doing it”.
We still need exec leadership and
escalation routes.
We need to make an active effort to
spread information widely.
18.
19. Open communications where we can
What sort of info must be private?
What sort of info could be public?
What about everything else in
between?
We are ‘Open’ where it helps us, but
not where it can hurt people.
21. Scale intelligently, when and where you need to
Some of the best people don’t want to
be your employees, but it’s great to
work with them on their terms.
The Associate model is the best of
both worlds.
We can change shape and size as and
when required.
22. Use distributed systems to build resilience
Use talent from all over the world.
“Follow the sun” delivery.
Balance our exposure to market
forces.
Go where the interesting work is.
23. Break up organisational monoliths
We’ve managed complexity by
dividing into business units, practices
and shared services.
We ‘refactor the organisation’ to
make it more maintainable.
How do we decide where to divide?
That’s the hard bit...
24.
25. We accept that things will go wrong
Don’t build for control; build for
adaptability.
We don’t pretend that we can control
or prevent everything.
We need to be able to limit the impact,
fix things when they break and learn
from the outcome.
26. Cross-functional teams are better at solving problems
We like cross-functional delivery
teams. Can we run the business this
way?
Operations are not second-class
citizens.
28. Culture debt is hard to pay back
We’re not as diverse as we’d like to be.
Short term pressure to grow quickly is hard to handle.
Interviewing people is difficult.
It’s really slow and difficult to change behaviours.
29. The software metaphors only take you so far
There is consequence to change.
There is no staging environment for
life; you’re always testing in prod.
How do you stop making the same
mistakes in the future? Is there an
automated test for that?
30. Is hierarchy a dirty word? Not entirely
We’re not a “Flat Hierarchy”; we want
‘just enough’ hierarchy to function.
But we don’t have line managers, we
don’t set performance targets and we
don’t do appraisals.
We trust that people will act in Equal
Experts’ interests.
31. There are lots of things we’re finding difficult
Finding the right balance between
freedom and accountability is hard.
Diversity and inclusion is hard.
Growth isn’t linear or predictable.
We have a tendency to be
introspective.
34. We are making this up as we go along!
There’s no one right answer, and the
target moves all the time anyway.
New people will make the network
grow stronger.
We strive for continuous
improvement.
35. We are getting better at using The Advice Process
Where should we open new offices?
Should I go to this conference?
Shall we rename our Slack channels to fit a naming convention?
Shall we send a plane into space?
36. Space Plane Record Attempt
Equal Experts Space Agency (EESA)
EESA Director of Rocket Science: Tim Squires
EESA Director of Space Operations: Nick Porthouse
38. The Advice Process is hard, but powerful
Create an environment where the impact of
failure is small and reversible.
Start small and experiment.
If you can’t trust your people to make good
decisions, why are you working with them?
41. Making Software. Better.
Simple solutions to big business problems.
“People are more complex than
computers”
Mairead O’Connor
@maireadoconnor
42. Thank You
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