Speaker: Patrick Kua

Principal Consultant and Tech Lead @ThoughtWorks

Patrick Kua is author of “The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for agile teams” and "Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners." Patrick brings harmony to technical and non-technical realms, leading teams and writing software for production systems in .Net, Java and Ruby and currently works for ThoughtWorks. Patrick is passionate about working closely with teams, helping them grow and learn with sustainable and long-term change, and sometimes facilitating situations beyond adversity. Patrick relies on retrospectives as a basis for improving teams, and is passionate about helping people achieve maximum value from the retrospective practice.

Find Patrick Kua at

http://www.thekua.com/atwork

@patkua

Talk: Building a High Performing Team

Track: Softskills: Essential Skills for Developers

Location: Whittle, 3rd flr.

Duration: 4:10pm - 5:00pm

As software architects, we often focus on the technical side to building software including key platform or design decisions, or finding reasons to use the latest and great technologies. We forget that software is built by people, and without considering how people work together, architectural visions are wasted. In this talk, we will explore why and how architects should care about well-functioning teams and look at the tools and techniques architects can use to build high-performance teams.

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