053 JSJ Software Team Dynamics

JavaScript Jabber

Episode | Podcast

Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000

<div class="trix-content"> <div>Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013!<br /> Panel</div><pre>Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) <br /></pre><div>Discussion<br /> 02:48 - External Conflicts</div><pre>Dealing with people outside your own team <br /></pre><div>07:04 - Areas of Expertise<br /> 08:45 - Expectations and Deadlines</div><pre>Multiple Layers of Hierarchy Differences in Goals <br /></pre><div>13:47 - Flatter Structure Approach<br /> 15:21 - The Search for Developers</div><pre>Finding the ideal people What makes an ‘A Player’? Intellectual Capability <br /></pre><div>19:47 - Team Scaling/ Scaling Agile</div><pre>Scaling Agile @ Spotify How Stripe Builds Software, with Greg Brockman <br /></pre><div>25:10 - Team Diversity<br /> 29:57 - Team Dynamics</div><pre>Attitude Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Joe) <br /></pre><div>35:00 - Specialization<br /> 40:08 - Dealing with someone you don’t like</div><pre>Circumventing Confrontation <br /></pre><div>50:52 - Dealing with a non-engaged person</div><div>Picks</div><pre>Honest and open conversations (Merrick) Noah Gundersen (Merrick) Oz the Great and Powerful (Joe) Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Joe) The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown (Joe) King of Tokyo (Joe) AngularJS (Joe) Kiki's Delivery Service (Jamison) Local 0.2.2 (Jamison) Ciaran Jessup (AJ) Psych Season 7 (AJ) Google+ Hangouts (AJ) ScreenFlow (AJ) Jing (Chuck) Transmit (Chuck) <br /></pre><div>Next Week<br /> JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat</div><div>Transcript<br /> CHUCK:  So, team dynamics this week?</div><div>JOE:  Sorry, is that our discussion or is that what we decided to call ourselves?</div><div>[Laughter]</div><div>CHUCK:  It’s our discussion topic this week.</div><div>AJ:  We are Team Dynamics.</div><div>JOE:  Because if we’re going with names, I would like to submit the Wolverines.</div><div>CHUCK:  The Wolverines? I think it’s taken by a University around here.</div><div>AJ:  Yeah, and my high school back in Virginia, and that dude from New Zealand who plays in X-Men.</div><div>CHUCK:  That dude?</div><div>AJ:  Yeah, that dude, Hugh Jackman.</div><div>CHUCK:  [Chuckles]</div><div>[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.]</div><div>[This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]</div><div>CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 53 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.</div><div>JOE:  Hi there.</div><div>CHUCK:  Jamison Dance.</div><div>JAMISON:  Hello, my mission is to bring calm to the boiling cauldron of hate that is the Internet.</div><div>CHUCK:  AJ O’Neal.</div><div>AJ:  Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the pulling my hair out over Iowa.</div><div>CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.</div><div>MERRICK:  What up?</div><div>CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv and don’t forget to use that code to get into Fluent Conf.</div><div>MERRICK:  It’s a big conference. You can go to FluentConf.com for the schedule, happens May 28th to the 30th, it’s at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. And for our listeners, you can actually get 20% off on your ticket using JAVAJAB. And that will give you 20% off on the registration.</div><div>CHUCK:  This week, we’re going to be talking about team dynamics and all the fun stuff that goes with it. To start us off, I kind of want to ask because I always get good stories from people when I ask questions like this. What is your worst... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy