Presentation: Tweet"Business: It's all about the People"
Trust( )in(g) Teams / 13:20 - 13:35
Prerequisite attendee experience level: beginner
Ever worked in a team where people seemed to play ball, but you could feel undercurrents pointing in the opposite direction? Lack of trust between team members or between the team and “the outside” is corrosive to motivation and detrimental to team-moral and productivity.
Learn to recognize the symptoms of trust issues and get a handle on how to start addressing them. Even if you are “just a grunt”.
Changing the Face of a Business: An Experience Report / 13:40 - 13:55
Prerequisite attendee experience level: beginner
In the consulting world, people are our business. ThoughtWorks has been in the consulting business for over twenty years and has had a breadth of experiences in all types of software consulting. However, in the not so distant past, we realized that the people who make us the business didn’t always match our growth initiatives or reflect our core principles. As a company, we are constantly working to be better so globally we’ve done many different things to try and get closer to our goals. This lightning talk will be about some of the things we’ve done and continue to improve in order to change the face of ThoughtWorks (and IT).
Perform like an Olympian / 14:00 - 14:15
Prerequisite attendee experience level: beginner
What can software professionals learn from Dutch Elite Swimmers? Certainly not how to produce software, but definitely how to perform.
Since you already know a lot about software development, you might suffer from diminishing returns on your investment. In that case swimmers would have adjusted the stimulus. This talk will demonstrate how everyone can adjust the stimulus and prevent plateauing.
