Building High Performance Engineering Teams
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Six concrete traits define a high performance engineering team here: alignment to strategy, empowerment and ownership, autonomy within guardrails, a focus on engineering excellence, continuous team learning and a culture of trust. The talk cites six characteristics, gives examples: Tap as a continuous deploy and monitoring platform, Kelsa for certified data sets, and a policy of 50 work days per year for learning. A dysfunctional “team alpha” becomes a high-performing team by shifting goals, metrics and behaviors.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:36Alignment to organizational goals
- 6:05Empowerment and ownership
- 8:33Autonomy in technology choices
- 11:27Striving for engineering excellence
- 14:13Continuous learning and sharing
- 16:39Team culture of trust and transparency
- 19:08Conclusion and Q&A
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