Janis Janovskis

Buenos AiresOctober 4 2013

Leading Open Source development team on large scale Cloud based systems

Janis Janovskis

✔ 130 kgs

✔ ???

✔ Senior Developer

✔ Only 92 kgs

✔ Scalable

✔ Passionate

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What is cloud?

Create or find cloud architecture example

?

@source http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/020711-ecs-quotes.html

What is then ?

✔ Don't know

✔ Service

✔ Delivery

✔ Software

✔ Customer

✔ System

✔ Scalable

What are people?

@todo – insert an image of an individual!!

Individual

Swarm, mass …

Team?

Why to lead?

PEOPLE

“Excellent leaders add value to their people and help them to become better than they

would worked alone.”

John Maxwell

Team

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Steve Jobs

Clients

Community

@todo – quote about community lead

@source https://twitter.com/Dries/status/246158196119568384

How to lead?

Your team

“He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk”

Leadership proverb

Your Team

✔ They are your friends✔ Let them make mistakes✔ Build your trust in them✔ How are you getting on?✔ “Take your lunch now!!!”

Clients

If you can't explain

It simply,

you don't understand

it well enough.

✔ Clients have to be trained

✔ Learn from them

✔ Have a pint, mate!

✔ Enjoy experience

✔ Celebrate

Community

@todo Insert a relevant quote

@source https://twitter.com/nickygumbel/status/384951800203591680

Cloud applications?

Divide tasks

Assign roles

Set boundaries

Case studies?

Save The Children

✔ 600 people (UK office)✔ 6 people digital team✔ Agile✔ Leadership Initiative✔ 1 manager✔ 3rd party teams

Project owner

Developer team Project manager

Wunderkraut

@source http://wunderkraut.com/blog/how-to-fail-in-a-drupal-project-fixed-price-contracts/2013-07-10

✔ Micro-teams✔ Cross border teams✔ No actual management✔ Leadership✔ No headquarters✔ Pure agile

Conclusion

Leadership checklist

✔ Lead, don't ...✔ Be visionary✔ Use discernment✔ Show example✔ Give more

Leadership ...

✔ Is challenging✔ Is discipline✔ Can be fun✔ Is to build, not demolish✔ Is changing

Acknowledgments

✔ My wife✔ Martin Layzel✔ Ernests Gabrans✔ Nick Capeling✔ Ron Chambers✔ Aprox … 1000 publications/books

Gracias :):)

@PASSIVUS

passivemanagement.net

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