In this talk, Gurpreet Luthra welcomes the freshers at tavisca with some career advice from his own experiences. Then he introduces them to tavisca's Tribe & Squad structure. And the importance of creating a 10x environment

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Our Teams & Work Philosophy
(Gurpreet Luthra – Head of Product Practice)

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Welcome to

3. My
beginnings…
In 2001

4. The Landscape of Software Development
15+ Years ago
1. One programming language
(Java or .NET)
2. SQL / Database
3. Windows / Linux
4. Data Structures & Algorithms
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Today
1. Java/.NET/Python + Javascript
2. SQL & NoSQL
3. Windows & Linux
4. Data Structures & Algorithms
5. Git / Github
6. Containers / Docker
7. HTTP and REST
8. React / Angular
9. Continuous Integration
10. Test Driven Development
11. Domain Driven Design
12. Kibana
13. Cloud Deployments
14. Agile / XP
15. Story Slicing & Estimation
16. Functional Style / Lambdas
17. Reactive Programming /
Concurrency
18. Performance Tuning
19. …. others

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Uni-directional career path

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My Journey Since Last 18 Years
Companies Roles Years
Persistent Engineer / Developer 2
IBM Labs Engineer / Tech Lead 3
Performix (startup) Senior Engineer / Director 4
ThoughtWorks Senior Engineer / Community Manager /
Product Owner / Technical Principal /
Open Source Evangelist
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Tavisca Head of Product Practice Going
On…

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10. Creating a multi-dimensional career
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1. A Learning Mindset.
2. Focus on fundamentals.
3. All roles – design, development, testing, support, doc, etc..
4. No work is out-of-bounds.
5. Experiment / Learn / Fail / Learn / Experiment.
AND …

11. The Sum of Parts is More than the Individual

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14. A place where we do
our life’s work
• Mastery – Continuously grow our craft.
• Autonomy – Feel in control.
• Purpose – Have clarity on our purpose,
and feel worthwhile.
• Connectedness – Feel like we belong in
a community.

15. An Amplifying Environment
“This industry often speaks of the 10x developer, and not a lot about the
10x environment. I think the latter is much more reproducible. And in fact,
most people who appear to be 10x developers were simply lucky enough
to be working in a 10x environment.”
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https://m.signalvnoise.com/hybrid-development-is-
how-we-give-our-teams-of-three-superpowers/
(5 – July – 2019)
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
CTO BaseCamp
Founder: Ruby On Rails (RoR)

16. Spotify – Tribe/Squad/Guild model
Our mission is to unlock the potential of human
creativity—by giving a million creative artists
the opportunity to live off their art and billions of
fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by
it.
Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio
streaming subscription service with 217m users,
including 100m subscribers, across 79 markets.
Spotify is the largest driver of revenue to the music
business today.
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17. Our Tribes
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Flights
CHAI
Checkout
BizOps
ORXeEnablement
Product Mode Teams
1. Mastery
2. Autonomy
3. Purpose
4. Connectedness

18. Our Tribes
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Flights
Flights Tribe
Launch
Squad
F-
Squad1
F-
Squad2
F-
Squad3
Every Tribe
• Product Manager
• Delivery Manager
Every Squad
• Product Analyst
• Iteration Manager

19. DUAL
TRACK
AGILE

20. What do we expect from you?
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1.Collaboration: Focus on being part of a
team. Work collaboratively. Learn. Teach.
2.Fail Fast: Experiment. Don't be worried of
tripping / failing.
3.Excellence: Strive for excellence. And
continuous improvement. Provide
Feedback.
4.Technology: Master Technology.
Fundamentals, Language, Storage,
Practices, Cloud, Domain.
5.Ask questions. Understand the WHY.

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