My talk in Jogja Nov 17 on Building An Effective Tech Team delivered at Jogja Digital Valley.

1. Building An Effective
Tech Team
without having you to look over the team’s shoulders
(literally)

2. Jeff Salleh
SDM - Oracle Asia R&D (SG)
Lead Engineer - Voiddeck Ventures

3. – Henry Ford
“If everyone is moving forward together, then
success takes care of itself.”

4. My Working Conditions
• Diverse group (language, culture and geographies)
• In a sales dominated environment - shareholders
breathing down our necks every quarters.
• We have pretty strong competitors.
• Too big, Too many products (very confusing…)
• Many policies and governance for product development

5. Building an Effective Team
Hires
Growth Mindset and
Sharing Culture
Processes
Efficient Use of
Tools
Dev Manager

6. Using Tools to Scale

7. Tools

8. Capturing your Requirements
USE POST-ITs Generously;
Capture them in your Product Backlog

10. Sprint Planning
“The Meeting”

11. Adopt Collaborative Tools
• Establish collaborative tools where teams can
communicate and share what they learn with each other.
Non-Real Time
Communication
Real Time
Communication

12. The Sprint
Where the work is done !!!

13. “The Sprint”
IDE
Have a catalog of IDE profiles

14. “The Sprint”
Repo$itory
Source Code - Never LOSE IT !!!!

15. “The Sprint”
Continuous Integration
Make sure things are repeatable
Invest on Continuous Integration
Never Accept
“But it works on my machine”

16. “The Sprint”
Embrace Immutable Infrastructure
Repeatable, Shareable, Consistent

17. Automate^3
If you do anything more than twice manually - AUTOMATE IT !!
Scripting != Automation
If !(makingLifeEasier)

18. Automate^3
Code-Level

19. Automate^3
API-Level

20. Automate^3
UI-Level

21. Ensure Quality
Use Tools that can give you Quality Matrix

22. Ensure Security
Just Do It !!!

23. Ship It
Archive,Tag and Release Notes

24. Monitoring
Understand your users,
scrutinise your system

25. Sprint Retrospective
"Time to Reflect”
As A Team

26. Team Bonding

28. Let’s Have A Conversation

29. Recommended Reading
Additional Reading
(The Borg Paper)
https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html