A quick and dirty presentation to sum some lessons learned during my first year as a team leader in UK. Dedicated to my friends of PUG Roma.

1. eugenio pombi
@euxpom

2. Details… Details… Details...
ZF version
Image Magick version
Weird Database Structure
Custom libraries Custom Nginx config
Custom debugging config

3. War to Details: Tech
Vagrant
Ansible
Functional testing

4. War to Details: Disciplines
Predictability
Best Practices
Code reviews
README.md

5. Legacy Big Ball of Mud
From the Admin panel to Ux in one single folder

6. War to Legacy: Architecture
SOA
Anticorruption Layers

7. War to Legacy: Tech
RabbitMQ
Blackbox testing
Table views
Node.js

8. War to Legacy: Disciplines
Compromises
Understanding of business values
Negotiate

9. Agile
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
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That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
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10. Agile
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

11. Agile
Team Workflows need tools and processes
Soa needs documentation and governance
Negotiation is often necessary *
You need to have a clear idea of what you have to do next
* Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in
by Roger Fisher and William Ury

12. Leading: compromise
single big system
expressive code
robust code
bottom up
simple
[...]
too many small systems
valuable code
lean code
top down
simplistic
[...]

13. Leading: people
disciplined
skilled
confident
open
studious
cool
[...]
creative
intelligent
humble
traditional
lazy
nerdish
[...]

14. Leading: it is all about values
business goals
time / money
our product
experience (science)
study
cooperation

15. Leading: disciplines
Pair programming
Retrospectives
Goal ownership (not code)
Chi propone fa!
Conferences & Community

16. Thank you!