Production

Clarity

Get everyone aligned. Unclog communcation channels and be explicit.

Help the team set their own goals and hold them accountable for reaching them.

Never stop making the process better. Embrace the 1% gains.

8 person team

2 months

Built a team from the ground-up, conducting panel interviews to identify the best candidates to accomplish my personal goals for the team and project.
Reduced volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity by creating structured SDLC systems, processes and agreements.
Retrained developers used to working in a waterfall approach to game development to think in a continuous development mindset.

15 person team

1 year 1 month

Addressed siloing and poor interdisciplinary communication by restructuring the team around feature areas and by holding daily stand ups and weekly build reviews.
Assisted junior developers dealing with uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity by collaboratively hand-crafting workflows that worked best for their discipline.
Illuminated the project's behind-schedule work and led hard conversations about what to cut to get us back on track.
Reduced centralized decision-making by delegating decision power to feature leads and coaching them to take ownership.

10 person team

2 months

Reduced poor planning, communication and coordination by holding planning meetings, stand-ups, and reviews.
Transcribed team wishes into specific, measurable, and actionable goals by building and maintaining a product backlog.
Reduced poor autonomy and centralized decision-making by delegating tasks and decisions to functional leads.