Delivering Value While Behind Enemy Lines Matt Barrett Adaptive Financial Consulting Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 1
Who What Where How Why Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 2
Who Adaptive Not product, nor enterprise, but consultants. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 3
Who Me Previously: developer, technical lead. Now: helping our teams deliver. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 4
Who Us Senior consultants acting as technical architects, senior developers, team leads. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 5
What Delivering Value While Behind Enemy Lines Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 6
What Not just development. It (unfortunately) takes more than engineering to deliver value. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 7
What Reactive Trader Event driven, streaming, high frequency.. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 8
Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 9
Where ...behind enemy lines... Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 10
Where Big investment banks, Small investment banks, FinTechs, Hedge funds.. Wide range of cultures. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 11
Where Big organisation struggling to get something anything done. Huge amount of inherited technology, infrastructure and practices. Brought in by one of two groups, business or IT. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 12
Where Lots of competing forces. History v. Culture v. Incentives Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 13
Where Culture, past behaviour, current behaviour, and bananas.. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 14
Where Bad Signs • Architectural review boards and project codes • Simple things are hard • Change control Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 15
How Getting a project up and off the ground is different from staying in flight. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 16
How Agile (or any process) v. the organisation Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 17
How Observe Orient Decide Act -- John Boyd Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 18
How Introduce yourself to everyone and start building relationships, before you write a line of code. Some people will be for you, some people will be against you, and some people just won't care. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 19
How Understand the big picture. Cost v. Revenue Change v. Stability Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 20
How Time available to build trust is very short. Demo something fast. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 21
How Use a fulcrum. Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ― - Archimedes Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 22
How Don't ask a question that you don't want to know the answer to. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 23
How The rules are there for those that cannot reason. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 24
How Don't play politics. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 25
How Be prepared to go to war. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 26
How Don't delay bad news. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 27
How Find allies, get them on side, and create a team. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 28
How Bring positive change to the environment. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 29
Why Easiest path is to go head down and code, ignoring everything else... ...but it has a multiplying effect on engineering value. Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 30
Why Delivering real value takes more than just engineering.. ..and successful delivery is its own reward! Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 31
Thank You! Questions? matt@weareadaptive.com @mattbarrett Matt Barrett / Adaptive, QCON London, 2017 32
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