WebStock 2018 notes

Andy Budd - The accidental leader (high performaing teams)

* processes don't make good products, people do
* build the team people want to be on
* create the best environment to do great work
* schedule time to experiment and innovate
* execute at pace
* remove organisational barriers
* remove the trash from jobs
* Google Aristotle Project
* psychological safety; and other stuff
how this applies to us
* execute at pace -> reducing long lead times/WIP -> org barriers/trash
* are we high performing team? where can we be better

Scott Hansleman - Open source pancreas

* a lot of engineers building the same systems - v complicated
* social meda to share, building on other parts; building the pancreas
* extracting data from closed source apps
how this applies to us
* how to extract data to send to GPs (results?), how to insert data from GPs (referrals?)
* who owns the data? it's about the patients but they can't access it. What apps can access.

Haley Van Dyck - USDS

* healthcare fail -> US Digital Service
* 86B on IT projects, 94% failure (inc over budget/late), 40% never released
* focused teams helping depts
* only appointee to stay in admin change O->T
1. never let a crisis go to waste
2. turn risk into asset
take other peoples' risk
3. design for failure
have something/incremental steps
4. mind the culture change trap
deliver results to change culture; don't try to change people
how this applies to us
* unfortunately we are probably one of the orgs they would be helping
* use some of their techniques? small, focused teams?

Lee Vinsel - The innovation fetish
(historian)

* innovation speak vs actual innovation
* little evidence of disruptive innovation (but amazon or netflix)
* 67% of software effort is in maintenance / not design (or innovation)
* failure to consider maintenance when building & maintenance jobs have lower status
how this applies to us
* more effort to prevent maintenance tasks?
* retire old stuff? - pas integrations?
* get our ALM happening?