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Think You Can't Help the
Team with Technical
Excellence? Think Again!
Dino Zafirakos
@dinozaf
What will be
covered
•The need for technical
excellence
•Coaching with code
•Build trust with code
•Find impediments with
code
Agile Fluency
Model
www.agilefluency.org/
Benefits for the organization
Release
often
Lower
defects
Cheaper
and faster
Job
satisfaction
Code as a coaching medium
Zero
context
Curiosity Open
questions
Listen
Things to try
•Offer, don’t inflict
•Pairing/mobbing
•Just be a sounding board
•Reflect to the team
•Can you understand the
code?
Build trust with code
Empathy Show care Take
seriously
Open up
Things to try
•Experiment with the team
•“Can you show/teach
me?”
•Facilitate
•Find passionate people
•Internal open spaces
Find impediments with code
Go to the
work
Visualize Share
findings
Find
patterns
Things to try
•Visualize the
worst/riskiest N parts
•Showcase impact of
policies or decisions
•Discover how the current
structure influences the
team
These books might help
These books might help
The 4 Key Metrics:
• Lead time
• Deployment frequency
• Mean time to restore
• Change fail percentage
These books might help
Techniques to find:
• Complex spots
• Consequences of change
• Impact of change
Questions?
Conclusion
•Technical excellence is
important
•We can use code as a
basis for coaching
conversations
•Discussing code can help
build trust
•Digging into code with
others can help surface
impediments
Think you can’t help
your teams with
technical excellence?
How are you going to
help your teams with
technical excellence?
Think You Can't Help the
Team with Technical
Excellence? Think Again!
Dino Zafirakos
@dinozaf

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