Empowering Your Software Team to Move Fast – PwP Episode 19

Challenges

  • Accelerating development processes without sacrificing quality or team stability.
  • Addressing inefficiencies that slow down software delivery.
  • Empowering teams to confidently navigate complex projects and tight deadlines.

Solutions

  • Leveraging proven strategies to enhance team productivity and workflow efficiency.
  • Encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.
  • Aligning team objectives with organizational goals to foster focused efforts.

Benefits

  • Faster delivery cycles with maintained or improved quality.
  • Enhanced team morale through empowered decision-making.
  • Greater project success rates driven by streamlined workflows.

In this episode, Jeffrey discusses how to empower your software team to move fast. You are an architect. You lead a software team. You can do it. But it’s up to you to turn their effort into progress.

The fundamentals of moving fast

  • Read my book, .NET DevOps for Azure: https://www.amazon.com/NET-DevOps-Azure-Developers-Architecture/dp/1484253426
  • Test-driven development
  • Continuous integration (actual CI, not just a triggered compile)
  • Automated deployments from day 1, through TDD, UAT, and Prod environments.
  • Operational telemetry from day 1 in your environments
  • Team scorecard. Know your throughput, velocity, and capacity. Measure it, analyze it, tune it.

Threats to moving fast are also analyzed.