Dungeons, Dragons & Developers

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Dungeons 🏰 Dragons 🐉 & Developers 👩🏻‍💻 @Brunty

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Firstly… @Brunty

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Just so we’re clear… @Brunty

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Name: Matt Brunt Age: 30 Class: Nerd Likes: Jaffa cakes Dislikes: Beetroot Strength: 10 Constitution: 8 Dexterity: 11 Wisdom: 12 Intelligence: 18 Charisma: 14 @Brunty

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Name: Mordecai Solomon Age: 80 Class: Wizard Likes: Books Dislikes: People Strength: 7 Constitution: 10 Dexterity: 15 Wisdom: 12 Intelligence: 19 Charisma: 9 @Brunty

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Dungeons & Dragons @Brunty

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Dungeons & Dragons Environment Problems to solve @Brunty

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The dungeon master @Brunty

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Our story beginS WITH… YOU @Brunty

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Your Alignment @Brunty

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My Alignment? Neutral Good @Brunty

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wizards @Brunty

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Technical: Testing ⭐️ Algorithms ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Databases ⭐️⭐️ Complimentary: Communication Empathy Creativity ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ @Brunty

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Our party @Brunty

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🧙🏻‍♂️Wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️Wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️Wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️Wizard Algorithms🔥 Algorithms🔥 Algorithms🔥 Algorithms🔥 @Brunty

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The Quest @Brunty

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Caera Makaria Ebenezer A Mordecai The goal “I know what I’m doing!” B

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Smash first plan later @Brunty

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Smash first plan later never @Brunty

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Find your Balance @Brunty

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👊🏻Fighter 🧙🏻‍♂️WIZARD 🗡Rogue ✨Cleric Comms🛡 Algorithms🔥 Creativity🔓 Empathy❤️ @Brunty

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Quest requirements @Brunty

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Fight your side @Brunty

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“Value Trust over control. if you can trust your team, you worry less about controlling everything” –Me @Brunty

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Okay, let’s get going! @Brunty

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A Team The goal B

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Effectiveness Performing Forming Norming Storming Performance @Brunty

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“Hey folks, can I join you?” @Brunty

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👊🏻Fighter 🧙🏻‍♂️WIZARD 🗡Rogue ✨Cleric 🍃Druid Comms🛡 Algorithms🔥 Creativity🔓 Empathy❤️ Testing✅ @Brunty

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Effectiveness Performing Forming Norming Storming Performance @Brunty

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A Rogue Team B

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Losing the path @Brunty

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Crossing the river @Brunty

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Rope: Quick, only temporary but needs rope. Build a bridge: Slow, needs lots of materials, but re-usable for yourself and others for years to come. Fly: Super quick, requires the wizard to be able to use this. Find another way: Needs the least preparation and materials, but unknown on how long it’ll take. @Brunty

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Decisions need context @Brunty

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Hey DM, can we try…? @Brunty

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“Rules are a good start, then break them” –Spotify https://medium.com/project-managementlearnings/spotify-squad-framework-part-i-8f74bcfcd761 @Brunty

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Sometimes you roll a natural 20 @Brunty

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And Sometimes you roll a natural 1 @Brunty

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Be prepared @Brunty

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Use past experience @Brunty

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“I cast fireball” @Brunty

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The final hill @Brunty

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Exhaustion @Brunty

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“The most important and productive thing you can do in software development is stop, go home, do something else for a while, and get a good nights sleep.” –Larry Garfield https://twitter.com/Crell/status/1015690625155510274 @Brunty

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“That will yield more improvement than all your fancy processes and agiles and death marches (sorry, “crunch time”).” –Larry Garfield https://twitter.com/Crell/status/1015690625155510274 @Brunty

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Reaching your goal @Brunty

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Victory & Reward @Brunty

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In summary • Look for balance in your team, both in skills, and alignment • Check-in regularly, keep everyone on the right path • • • • • You always have choices Start with rules, then break them Use past experience Some Wizards can have their place 🧙🏻‍♂️ Don’t be sloppy even to the end of your task @Brunty

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Thank you @Brunty

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#wizard #fireball #dungeonsanddragons #agileandfragile #spaceforagoodwizard @Brunty