Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency

Half Day Morning
(9:00 am-12:30 pm)

Thurgood Marshall West Ballroom

Soft Skills
T5
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
Description: 

Attendees must bring a laptop for in-class exercises. Techniques will apply to any wiki or collaborative document system, but the labs and demos will be done using Google Apps.

Who should attend: 

All sysadmins who want to collaborate efficiently within their team and with others (even solo sysadmins will benefit!).

Take back to work: 

Techniques to help your IT team work better, faster, and more transparently.

Topics include: 
  • Collaborate online with collaborative documents, shopping lists, and Kanban tools.
  • Go from "firefighting" to working on more interesting projects
  • Create meetings that don't suck
  • Hold team members accountable for tasks they take on
  • Cross train team members more effectively with fire drills (DevOps "Game Day" exercises)
  • Train people on new services more effectively
  • Eliminate problems due to inconsistent processes
  • Send more effective emails
  • Launch new services without "oops"
  • Document how things work so everyone can go on vacation