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Decision Making in Software Teams

Tim Berglund@tlberglund

1Sunday, September 12, 2010

About Me2Sunday, September 12, 2010

Decision Making

5Sunday, September 12, 2010

Alistair CockburnSoftware

Development is a Game.

It’s Finite, cooperative, and goal-directed.

Invent.Communicate.

Decide.

6Sunday, September 12, 2010

Invent

7Sunday, September 12, 2010

8Sunday, September 12, 2010

Decide?

9Sunday, September 12, 2010

“Developers make critical decisions about every 15

minutes.”

—Mary PoppendieckDecide!

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Individual

Team

Organizational

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Cognitive Biases

Framing

Intuition

Individual Decision Making

12Sunday, September 12, 2010

Cognitive Biases

Overconfidence

Sunk Cost

Confirmation Bias

13Sunday, September 12, 2010

Overconfidence

14Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sunk Cost

15Sunday, September 12, 2010

Confirmation Bias

16Sunday, September 12, 2010

Blaise Pascal

“They are the miseries of a great lord......of a deposed king.”

—Pensée 39817Sunday, September 12, 2010

Framing18Sunday, September 12, 2010

Hacking Risk Tolerance19Sunday, September 12, 2010

Intuition

20Sunday, September 12, 2010

Deeply Data-Driven21Sunday, September 12, 2010

Pitfalls22Sunday, September 12, 2010

Process Losses

Groupthink

Managing Conflict

Inability to Commit

Team Decision Making

23Sunday, September 12, 2010

Process Losses

24Sunday, September 12, 2010

http://despair.com/meetings.html

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Conformity

26Sunday, September 12, 2010

Fault Lines

27Sunday, September 12, 2010

Air Time28Sunday, September 12, 2010

TeamParasites

29Sunday, September 12, 2010

Information Flow

30Sunday, September 12, 2010

Groupthink

31Sunday, September 12, 2010

Encourage Conflict

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Psychological Safety

33Sunday, September 12, 2010

Conformity

34Sunday, September 12, 2010

Nonconformists

35Sunday, September 12, 2010

The Red Pencil

36Sunday, September 12, 2010

Red Team vs.

Blue Team

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Devil’s Advocacy

38Sunday, September 12, 2010

Conflict Skills

39Sunday, September 12, 2010

Cognitive vs. Affective40Sunday, September 12, 2010

41Sunday, September 12, 2010

Repairing Damage

42Sunday, September 12, 2010

Inability to Commit

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Normalized Deviance

Practical Drift

Scaling Out

Organizational Decision Making

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Normalized Deviance

48Sunday, September 12, 2010

Broken Windows

49Sunday, September 12, 2010

Exceptional Expected

whoa! a stack trace. we

should see what’s up.

Stop development! We need to fix this

now.

50Sunday, September 12, 2010

AcceptedExpected

whoa! a stack trace. we

should see what’s up.

Stop development! We need to fix this

now.

Hey, look, another six exceptions.

Whatever.

51Sunday, September 12, 2010

Accepted

whoa! a stack trace. we

should see what’s up.

Stop development! We need to fix this

now.

Hey, look, another six exceptions.

Whatever.

We only went down three times this morning.

Hey, not bad!

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Operations

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Quality Issues54Sunday, September 12, 2010

Deviant Smells55Sunday, September 12, 2010

Practical DriftCore Platform

Services

Consumerdotcom

Time Stamps

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Avoid Practical Drift

Refactor Silos

Manage Rivalry

Cross-Functional Teams

Value Stream Mapping

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Value Stream Mapping

58Sunday, September 12, 2010

Team Pathologies Writ Large

59Sunday, September 12, 2010

Groupthink

60Sunday, September 12, 2010

Yes, No, and Maybe

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Tyranny

62Sunday, September 12, 2010

Fault Lines

63Sunday, September 12, 2010

Imperatives

64Sunday, September 12, 2010

Process Over Content

65Sunday, September 12, 2010

“This is the very

perfection of man: to

know his own

imperfections.”

—Aurelius Augustine

Know Your Limits66Sunday, September 12, 2010

No More Heroes67Sunday, September 12, 2010

Look For Problems68Sunday, September 12, 2010

Thank you.Tim Berglund

tim.berglund@augusttechgroup.comwww.augusttechgroup.com

@tlberglund

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Fin de Siècle Painting of Woman Dustinghttp://www.vintageadbrowser.com/household-ads-1910s/4#adnhsa0sad4txsrk

Attractive Photo of Alistaire Cockburnhttp://alistair.cockburn.us/get/1830

Thomas Edisonhttp://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals_iv/images/thomas_edison/thomas_edison.html

Communication Motivational Posterhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/artrock2006/4177475479/

Blaise Pascalhttp://www.abolitionist.com/blaise-pascal.html

Young Neuroscientisthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/deadstar/3206879752/

BASE Jumperhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ontilnow/2584842109

Sunk Shiphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jocelynaubert/3100384270

Stopwatchhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ytwhitelight/504212595

Beautiful Woman in Framehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/desireedelgado/3950323069

Roulette Wheelhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwardell/80127267

Photo Credits

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Light Bulb Headhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/981372736

Greenbarhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/3368836377

SUV in Sinkholehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/andis/122530269

San Andreas Faulthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/liao/2509907429

Tapeworms in a Jarhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jrmyst/2174896490

Damhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mandj98/3075073297

Borg Cubehttp://media.photobucket.com/image/borg%20cube/TeckDragon/Borg_Cube.jpg?o=4

Boxershttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ennuiislife/3581104847

Teddy Bear Hug of Psychological Safetyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gemsling/2697403392

Kirk/Spockhttp://www.filmedge.net/StarTrek/photos2.htm

Photo Credits

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Paramilitary Crossing Guardhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wackystuff/3420439597

Band Aidhttp://www.pachd.com/free-images/household-images-2.html

Deviant With Lots of Eyeshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/1209794692

Broken Windowshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nathansnostalgia/2098210283

Three Mile Islandhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/locomotion/2647418165

The Wrong Week to Quit Sniffing Gluehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rogefer/168107916

Death of Beowulfhttp://dragonsinn.net/4_nordic.htm

Man With Magnifying Glasshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/andercismo/2349098787

Julius Caesarhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0092_-_Wien_-_Kunsthistorisches_Museum_-_Gaius_Julius_Caesar.jpg

Photo Credits

72Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sailboathttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinl8888/64076186

Photo Credits

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