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World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Roadmapping and Collaboration Best Practices to know you're building the right thing

Shilpa Airi

Is your isolated team efficiently building the wrong software? Uniting product, design, and engineering into power triads ensures you build exactly what your customers need.

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#1 about 2 min

Importance of teamwork in software development

How building awesome software relies on brainstorms, discussions, and group collaboration.

#2 about 4 min

Navigating cross-functional product complexity

Crafting widespread products requires synchronizing diverse roles like engineering, marketing, and retail.

#3 about 3 min

Productivity hurdles in modern technical work

Tool sprawl and fragmented information cause developers to spend extensive time hunting for resources rather than coding.

#4 about 3 min

The three core pillars of winning teams

High-performing groups converge, communicate, and collaborate to build the right products correctly.

#5 about 2 min

Establishing shared team goals and visions

Providing a common focus prevents fragmented efforts and keeps groups moving in unison.

#6 about 2 min

Fostering inclusive and frequent team brainstorming

Regular sparring sessions and cross-functional reviews ensure that products benefit from diverse perspectives.

#7 about 3 min

Building customer obsession across developer roles

Consuming user interactions regularly unifies diverse crafts around a single source of user pain.

#8 about 3 min

Accelerating choices with two-way doors

Distinguishing between easily reversible actions and permanent paths prevents analysis paralysis.

#9 about 2 min

Advancing forward through disagree and commit

Moving forward quickly requires individuals to support a chosen path completely despite prior objections.

#10 about 2 min

Democratizing project information across organizations

Maintaining a centralized and open knowledge base ensures that decisions rely on transparent facts.

#11 about 2 min

Balancing synchronous and asynchronous team communication

Relying on tools like Loom allows distributed workers to participate in brainstorms without calendar conflicts.

#12 about 3 min

Breaking down tool silos for better developer flow

Establishing a unified technological foundation prevents bottlenecks and enhances the holistic software development lifecycle.

#13 about 2 min

Augmenting team workflows with artificial intelligence

AI teammates act as tireless resources that summarize information, automate tasks, and support human velocity.

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Summarizing the path to better cross-functional collaboration

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Prioritizing developer tools and cross-functional team collaboration

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Organizing cross-functional and balanced product teams

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Aligning project communication and breaking enterprise silos

Kai Geißelhardt +1 · World Congress 2022

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Unifying core software principles for better team performance

Richard Bown · World Congress 2023

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Cross-functional roles and collaboration in a balanced team

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