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Delivering Value While Behind Enemy Lines
Matt Barrett
Adaptive Financial Consulting
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Delivering Value While Behind Enemy Lines Matt Barrett Adaptive Financial Consulting Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 1 Who What Where How Why Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 2 Who Adaptive Not product, nor
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Adaptive
Not product, nor enterprise, but consultants.
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Me
Previously: developer, technical lead. Now: helping our teams deliver.
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Us
Senior consultants acting as technical architects, senior developers, team leads.
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Delivering Value While Behind Enemy Lines
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Not just development. It (unfortunately) takes more than engineering to deliver value.
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Reactive Trader
Event driven, streaming, high frequency..
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...behind enemy lines...
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Big investment banks, Small investment banks, FinTechs, Hedge funds.. Wide range of cultures.
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Big organisation struggling to get something anything done. Huge amount of inherited technology, infrastructure and practices. Brought in by one of two groups, business or IT.
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Lots of competing forces. History v. Culture v. Incentives
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Culture, past behaviour, current behaviour, and bananas..
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Bad Signs
- Architectural review boards and project codes
- Simple things are hard
- Change control
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How
Getting a project up and off the ground is different from staying in flight.
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Agile (or any process) v. the organisation
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Observe Orient Decide Act
- - John Boyd
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Introduce yourself to everyone and start building relationships, before you write a line of code. Some people will be for you, some people will be against you, and some people just won't care.
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Understand the big picture. Cost v. Revenue Change v. Stability
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Time available to build trust is very short. Demo something fast.
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How
Use a fulcrum. Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ―- Archimedes
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Don't ask a question that you don't want to know the answer to.
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The rules are there for those that cannot reason.
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Don't play politics.
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Be prepared to go to war.
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Don't delay bad news.
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Find allies, get them on side, and create a team.
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Bring positive change to the environment.
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Why
Easiest path is to go head down and code, ignoring everything else... ...but it has a multiplying effect on engineering value.
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Why
Delivering real value takes more than just engineering.. ..and successful delivery is its own reward!
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Thank You!
Questions? matt@weareadaptive.com @mattbarrett
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