On February 15, we had DevDay for managers - we were amazed at the scrum in hardware development, we were looking for quick ways to plan the time for 257 developers, and we were happy with the methods of nonlinear management.
With a delay, we are sharing the records of all three reports - the guys have returned from conferences, no longer afraid to spoil. The speakers are in touch and ready to answer your questions in the comments.
What is DevDay?
DevDay - open meetings for sociable IT people in Novosibirsk. We collect 150 guests, listen to three reports and communicate after the party. Meetings are held every three months. Before managers, we invited guests to DevDay for testing and the Frontend-event . And we love to experiment with afterparty. This time we collected hobby groups. ')
How to manage the engineers, if they are not bad without you // Alexander Syrkov, 2GIS
In the role of the head of the department, Alexander tested the classic motivators for the team - a job / salary increase. Now, as the manager of a large project, he is responsible for the result of the work of many teams, but he is not the direct manager. The speech embodied the sincere and humane rules for managing a team.
Scrum in hardware development, or canons that we tamed // Anton Ryadinsky, Uniscan Research
Anton is a managerial hardware product. Once he decided to try Scrum. The industry has introduced limitations in the task: I-shaped specialists, infrequent increments, long technological cycles. Anton told how to live according to Scrum, when life forces us to retreat from its canons.
How to plan 257 developers for half a year in 3 days // Angela Druzhinina, 2GIS
For more than three years, twice a year, product managers, designers, team leaders and 2GIS active developers have been leaving the office for 3-5 days. They are going to the taiga, where it is impossible to get into the car and go home for the night. Such planning are called intensives. Angela's presentation on strategic planning: she told how to prepare for such a trip and how much it costs.