SPA Conference session: What Do Developers Really Need? | |||
| One-line description: | Explore factors about work environment and culture that make software development easier | ||
| Session format: | Workshop [read about the different session types] | ||
| Abstract: | Come to this workshop to explore what factors developers need in their process and environment to make their time at work enjoyable and productive. We’ll be doing a group exercise to build a “programmer hierarchy of needs” based on your own experiences. We’ll then use this to focus discussion around what improvements typically have most beneficial impact and which ones are worth pursuing over others. | ||
| Audience background: | This session has broad appeal and will be of interest to anyone who cares whether developers have a suitable work environment. | ||
| Benefits of participating: | You will gain from the insight of all the other participants and we hope you will take away a practical tool that you can apply to situations at work. | ||
| Materials provided: | Slides for a brief presentation on workshop instructions. We’ll need flip chart paper provided but have plenty of sticky notes and markers that we can bring along for participants to use in the workshop activities. | ||
| Process: | After a brief introduction, we'll ask participants to work in groups to create posters with a hierarchy of developer needs and discuss which need to be addressed. | ||
| Detailed timetable: | 00:00 - 00:05 Introduction 00:05 - 00:10 On your own brainstorm developer needs 00:10 - 00:15 Form groups of 3-4 people 00:15 - 00:30 Groups create poster of hierarchy of developer needs 00:30 - 00:40 Gallery walk around to see posters created by other groups 00:40 - 00:50 Groups discuss what needs they would address first and why 00:50 - 00:60 Each group shares their top 3 needs to be addressed 00:60 - 00:75 Closing thoughts - insights generated by the session | ||
| Outputs: | Groups will produce posters that can be displayed after the session. We will write up notes following the session on the SPA community wiki. | ||
| History: | Rachel ran this session at Agile Coach Camp Barcelona and blogged about this session idea here http://agilecoach.typepad.com/agile-coaching/2013/11/hierarchy-of-developer-needs.html | ||
| Presenters | |||
| 1. Rachel Davies Unruly Media |
2. Dadi Ingolfsson Sprettur |
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