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The Human Element in Development

Talkat GOTO Berlin 2014 · 2014-11-06..11-07· [developer-experience, soft-skills]

speaker

name:Leslie Hawthorn

github:lhawthorn

resources

video:https://youtu.be/mRs7d7lk1so

slides:none on file

summary

Five concrete case studies show how tools expose culture: a mailing list was forked into “team” and “discuss” lists, creating confusion and signaling avoidance; engineers spend ~2% of time per month on expense reports so a company paying in >40 currencies builds its own broken system, which ships late with broken ACLs and forces a key engineer to leave; four recurring executive briefings eat ~10% of dev time with no notes or agenda; a public kanban board becomes a trophy case (webcam and CEO sticky notes) and fails to offload cognitive load; forced ranked reviews (bottom 10%) breed distrust.

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