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The Async-First Playbook de Sumeet Moghe

The Async-First Playbook

Autor Sumeet Moghe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2023

Observăm o problemă sistemică în managementul proiectelor moderne: încercarea de a aplica ritualuri agile tradiționale, concepute pentru interacțiune față în față, unor echipe distribuite global. Rezultatul este o avalanșă de ședințe care blochează productivitatea. The Async-First Playbook oferă instrumentele necesare pentru a rupe acest cerc vicios, punând la dispoziție șabloane de lucru, protocoale de colaborare și cadre de execuție care prioritizează munca asincronă.

Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care Sumeet Moghe descompune procesele complexe în „superputeri” asincrone. Cartea este organizată strategic pentru a ghida cititorul de la schimbarea mentalității (Partea I) la selecția instrumentelor și dezvoltarea abilităților de scriere (Partea II), culminând cu un ghid de implementare pentru practicieni. Autorul demonstrează cum tehnici precum sprint-urile sau programarea în pereche pot fi reinventate pentru a elimina întreruperile constante, oferind în același timp acces la resurse digitale suplimentare pentru aplicare imediată.

Suntem de părere că volumul este esențial pentru liderii care vor să construiască echipe reziliente. Complementar lui Running Remote, care se concentrează pe strategia macro de scalare a unei organizații la distanță, lucrarea lui Moghe acoperă zona tactică, de „firul ierbii”, explicând exact cum se modifică fluxul de lucru zilnic și cum documentația devine un produs în sine. Față de Effective Remote Work, care explorează tranziția generală spre munca flexibilă, acest manual este mult mai ancorat în metodologia Agile, oferind soluții specifice pentru livrarea de software în medii distribuite. Este o resursă orientată spre rezultate, care transformă munca de la distanță dintr-o necesitate logistică într-un avantaj competitiv prin calm și concentrare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780138187538
ISBN-10: 0138187533
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 178 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Pearson Education

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte managerilor de produs și liderilor tehnici care se confruntă cu oboseala provocată de ședințe interminabile. Veți câștiga un set complet de șabloane și protocoale pentru a implementa un model de lucru „async-first”, care protejează timpul de concentrare al echipei. Este motivul concret pentru a trece de la agilitatea bazată pe prezență la o eficiență reală, independentă de fusul orar.

Despre autor

Sumeet Moghe este Principal Product Manager în cadrul renumitei companii de consultanță tehnologică Thoughtworks. Cu o vastă experiență în coordonarea echipelor distribuite pe mai multe continente, Moghe a devenit o voce autoritară în adaptarea metodologiilor Agile pentru mediul digital. Expertiza sa nu se limitează doar la managementul de proiect, ci include optimizarea culturii organizaționale și a proceselor de comunicare asincronă. Prin activitatea sa, el ajută organizațiile să navigheze complexitatea muncii remote, punând accent pe incluziune și eficiență operațională.

Notă biografică

Sumeet Gayathri Moghe, Principal Product Manager at Thoughtworks, is an agile specialist with 20+ years of IT consulting experience. He has helped clients deliver new products and adopt agile ways of working in travel, payments, financial services, education, analytics, consulting, retail, and beyond. Moghe has always worked in distributed teams, and went "all-remote" in 2017, long before it was commonplace. He blogs about remote collaboration at asyncagile.org.

Cuprins

Foreword by Martin Fowler xxi Foreword by Darren Murph xxiii Preface xxv Acknowledgments xxix About the Author xxxiii
Part I: Adapting to the New Normal 1
Chapter 1: There's Got to Be a Better Way to Work 3 Work Deserves a New Look 5 A Better Work Environment for All of Us 11
Chapter 2: Foster a Mindset for Change 13 Four Simple Ideas 13 Go Far, Go Together 19 Ready for the First Steps 19
Part II: Prepare to Go Async-First 21
Chapter 3: The Tools You Need 23 With Tools, Less Is More 23 Tools Are Everything; Tools Are Nothing 27
Chapter 4: The Biggest Async-First Superpower 29 Writing Is a Practice; Documentation a Product 30 To Work Async-First, We Must Write 41
Chapter 5: Three More Async-First Superpowers 43 What an Async-First Superhero Looks Like 43 Personal Productivity Leads to Team Productivity 47
Chapter 6: Calm Things Down with Collaboration Protocols 49 Work Execution vs. Workflow 49 Fundamentals, Fundamentals, Fundamentals 56
Part III: The Practitioner's Guide 57
Chapter 7: Meetings as the Last Resort 59 Just. Too Many. Meetings. 59 Async-First, with Small Shifts 66
Chapter 8: The Value of Being Face to Face 69 From URL to IRL 69 So Much for Meetings 75
Chapter 9: Micro-Moves to Shift Left 77 Small Shifts, Easy Wins 77 Build Async-First Behavioral Cues 85
Chapter 10: Write a Team Handbook 87 Distributed Teams Need a Single Source of Truth 87 Aim for a Shared Reality 95
Chapter 11: Tame the "Instant" in Instant Messaging 97 Make Messaging Productive 97 Messaging: Just Not Instant 105
Chapter 12: Standup Meetings: An Easy Shift Left 107 Distributed Standups Can Be Painful 108 Standups = Conveyance/Strong Relationships 116
Chapter 13: Take Charge of Your Development Cycles 117 Sprint Ceremonies Can Hinder Async Work 117 The Key to Asynchrony Is a Strong Process 125
Chapter 14: Run Meaningful Retrospectives 127 Infrequent Retros Lead to Poor Team Health 127 Scrum for the 2020s 135
Chapter 15: Kickoffs and Desk Checks: Reduce Ritualized Interruptions 137 How to Maintain Quality with Fewer Meetings? 138 Make Your Feedback Loops "Remote Native" 145
Chapter 16: Questions to Reimagine Your Tech Huddles 147 The What and the Why 148 Not a Zero-Sum Game 153
Chapter 17: Pair Programming: The Elephant in the Room 155 A Polarizing Topic 155 If It's Fun for You, Pair by All Means 161
Chapter 18: Audit Trails from the Flow of Your Work 163 The "Just Ask" Pattern Breaks Down 163 Trails as the Most Frequent Form of Documentation 171
Chapter 19: Communicate Tech and Functional Design 173 An Agile Approach to Design 173 Simplify Communication Complexity 178
Chapter 20: Two Stable Pieces of Handbook Documentation 181 Being Agile About Documentation 181 Good Documents Reduce Guesswork 186
Chapter 21: Craft an Efficient Onboarding Process 189 Write Once, Run Many Times 189 Onboarding Efficiency = Team Efficiency 195
Part IV: Async-First Leadership 197
Chapter 22: The Async Leadership Mindset 199 The Tyranny of "The Way" 199 Make Time for the Essential Stuff 206
Chapter 23: Manage Your People with Care 209 Corrections in the Right Direction 209 Be the Bridge Between Your Team and Your Company's Culture 216
Chapter 24: Set Up Your Team for Success 217 Design for Success 217 Your Virtual Workplace Needs Configuring 227
Chapter 25: Farm Tacit Knowledge in Your Company 229 Beyond Handbooks: Into Communities 229 From Team Knowledge to Company Knowledge 238
Part V: Navigate the Pitfalls 241
Chapter 26: The Great Hybrid Kerfuffle 243 People's Preferences Are Heading Remote 243 Choice and Autonomy Are the Key Words 253
Chapter 27: The Async Island 255 Unpacking Organizational Inertia 255 While Being a Guerilla, Don't Forget Advocacy 265
Chapter 28: Toxicity in the Virtual Workplace 267 Toxicity Builds: One Benign Step at a Time 267 As a Leader, Stay Vigilant 271
Part VI: Bring It All Together 273
Chapter 29: The Async-First Starter Kit 275 Five Stages of Sensible Defaults 275 A Team Shift, Owned by the Team 285
Chapter 30: A Brave New World of Work 287 Another World of Work Is Possible 289 It's Time to Sign Off 295
Endnotes 297 Index 321

Descriere scurtă

Reinventing Agile for Distributed and Remote Teams
Distributed work is now inevitable, but conventional agile approaches are too "synchronous" for today's remote teams. Meetings, ceremonies, and rituals can quickly become unsustainable when teams are scattered across the globe. The result: burnout, constant interruptions, a lack of deep work, poor work-life balance, greater frustration, and workplaces with poor diversity.
In The Async-First Playbook, Thoughtworks Principal Product Manager Sumeet Gayathri Moghe provides tools and techniques to embed remote-native, asynchronous practices into traditional agile methods, making remote work more effi cient, inclusive, thoughtful, and fun.
Drawing on extensive experience leading distributed teams, Moghe addresses the "nuts and bolts" of specific practices and the crucial "softer" elements such as culture, mindset, and leadership. Short, practical chapters show how to adapt traditional agile techniques such as sprints and pair programming for the realities of today's distributed environments. Whatever your project, you'll learn how to create asynchronous environments that promote success, improve the workplace experience, and deliver better results.
  • Discover why asynchronous collaboration is crucial to your project's success
  • Prepare to go "async-first": get your tools, skills, and protocols right up front
  • Map current agile techniques to async-first versions that better reflect today's realities
  • Become a more supportive and effective leader of async-first teams
  • Anticipate, navigate, and mitigate the pitfalls of async-first distributed work
  • Bring it all together: walk through your async-first transition
  • Access valuable resources, examples, and hands-on templates at the companion website
"The plays in this playbook will empower you to lead and build differently. All that you need is an open mind and a belief that the status quo isn't worthy of defining the future." --From the Foreword by Darren Murph