Admitting that hard problems are hard SASHA ROSENBAUM
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You have been tasked with building a website
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Imagine your CTO, Bob
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Bob has an idea
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- Hey, Bob, I don’t understand… - Why do we need all this?!
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Are you saying that YOU don’t understand this?
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Resume driven development
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“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” ― Albert Einstein
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We should stop pretending that ❖Distributed systems are easy ❖People can be available 24/7 ❖Unicorn companies don’t have technical debt ❖That new product will solve all of your problems
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The intro slide Sasha Rosenbaum Sr. Program Manager @Microsoft @DivineOps
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Computer Science Top 20 CS department in the world • • • • System Administrator for IAF R&D Software Engineer Azure Consultant Cloud Solution Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-rosenbaum/
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You must be marketing!
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We use heuristics to navigate the world
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Stereotypes are self-perpetuating
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Studies in 2012 and 2015 Same resume with a male (vs female) name was 6-14% more likely to get an interview. The resumes with white-sounding names spurred 50% more callbacks than the ones with black-sounding names.
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Why am I telling you this?
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The cost is much higher for ❖Women ❖People of color ❖Junior Engineers
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Why speak up?
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Complexity isn’t free
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Costs of complexity https://abstrusegoose.com/432 ❖Time to learn ❖Time to build ❖Cost of Maintenance ❖Chances of failure
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Money
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Productivity
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Building Effective Teams (Google Study) Background? Personality types? Skills?
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Building Effective Teams (Google Study) Background Personality types Skills => Psychological Safety
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Psychological safety A belief that a team is safe for risk taking in the face of being seen as ignorant, incompetent, negative, or disruptive.
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Psychological Safety Feeling confident that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea.
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How many of you have that?
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How many of you remember not having that?
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Psychological safety doesn’t just happen
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As a leader, remember
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Make it safe to express opinions
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Make it safe to admit mistakes
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You don’t know everything
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You are here to IMPROVE not to PROVE yourself
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None of this is easy
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But it is worth it!
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Thank You! @DivineOps
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Resources https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/ https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/careers/the-same-resume-with-differentnames-nets-different-results/news-story/a2a182fb4570e948c27ce63139ee66b1 https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/15/jalen-ross/blackname-resume-50-percent-less-likely-get-respo/ https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2016/08/technion-ranked-top-in-israel-69thworldwide/ https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-New-Psychology-Success-dpB07N48NM33/dp/B07N48NM33/ http://projects.wsj.com/buzzwords2014
