083 ColdFusion High-Performance Teams (15 tips and techniques) with Jorge Reyes

Jorge Reyes talks about “ColdFusion High-Performance Teams (15 tips and technique)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Check out the audio, transcript and show notes at: http://teratech.com/podcast/coldfusion-high-performance-jorge-reyes/

Episode Highlights
Why High-Performance Teams
Distrust
Fear conflict
Lack of commitment
Avoid accountability
Inattention to results
What do you mean by High Performance
Efficient
Reliable
Effective
Consistent
Predictable – Product expected results
The Projectized Organization
PM is king
People Process
Servant Leadership
Team rules and processes
Help team members grow in tech and interpersonal skills
Generalizing specialists
Empower and encourage emerging leaders
Learn team motivators and demotivators
Encourage communication via slack or other collaboration tools
Shield team from distractions
Track performance and forecast
Share project Vision
Agile teams vs hierarchical teams
Self-organizing
Servant Leader-Facilitator
Everyone knows their Roles
Biz representatives – does and don’t
Can
Prioritizes features
Makes change requests
Provides the acceptance criteria
Can not
Change features or priorities
Decide due date
Attend planning meetings or retrospectives
Scrum master
Facilitates team and biz reps
Coaches
Servant leader
Follows up
Project sponsor
Dev team
Front End
Code
Test
DevOps
Team lone development or talent
Even if Luis the CEO is on the team
Team Evolution
Forming → storming → norming → performing
High-Performance Teams
Performing stage of team evolution
Complementary skills
Generalizing Specialists
Can switch roles and hence resolve bottlenecks
Committed to the common vision
Buy into the company culture
Team members are seen as important to the project
Mutual accountability
Shared ownership of project outcome
Skill learning
Mentors
Shu-Ha-Ri skill mastery
Dreyfus model
Novice → Beginner → Competent → Proficient → Expert
Motivation
Experimenting and Failing safely
Constructive disagreement
Honesty, transparent
“Throwing people into the fire”
A hard task a bit above what they already know
with the support of mentors
For growth and motivation
Distributed teams
Team tools
Video conferencing – Zoom
Cameras on to see body language
Focus on meeting
IM – Slack and email
Keban boards – Trello, JIRA
Online calendar – Google, Outlook, iCal
Conf call tips
Keep to time limits (15 min for stand-ups)
Have a timekeeper on the team who pays attention and reminds
Culture of integrity
Start on time and end on time
Agenda
Very clear of expectations – be up front of my role as the meditator for meeting
Document and record
Burndown chart
Burn up chart
Estimating release date
Team velocity
CF summit
Luis, Gavin, Jon from Ortus are speaking
Post-summit training on ColdBox (2 days)
Ortus Roadshow – containers 2?
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas?
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