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Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)21:10:33

Hey, everybody! I’ll be hosting the session today for “Spanning the Customer/Business/Tech Divide”. Looking forward to another terrific conversation! https://excella.zoom.us/j/92669811592?pwd=OWlIZ2l0bmxicDBzK2Z1NlVDUHF4UT09&amp;from=msft Phone one-tap: US: <tel:+16468769923,,92669811592#|+16468769923,,92669811592#> or <tel:+13017158592,,92669811592#|+13017158592,,92669811592#> Meeting URL: https://excella.zoom.us/j/92669811592?pwd=OWlIZ2l0bmxicDBzK2Z1NlVDUHF4UT09&amp;from=msft Meeting ID: 926 6981 1592 Passcode: 467927 Join by Telephone For higher quality, dial a number based on your current location. Dial: US: <tel:+16468769923|+1 646 876 9923> or <tel:+13017158592|+1 301 715 8592> or <tel:+13126266799|+1 312 626 6799> or <tel:+16699006833|+1 669 900 6833> or <tel:+12532158782|+1 253 215 8782> or <tel:+13462487799|+1 346 248 7799> Meeting ID: 926 6981 1592 https://excella.zoom.us/u/aeo3qQYLMZ

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)21:10:05

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Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:02

Insight: disconnect between what the organization says is important/priority and the KPIs that people are incentivized by — and it’s hard to reconcile when the KPIs are invisible

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:32

Insight: hard to get business leaders to understand value of speed when all they care about is cost optimization

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:29

Insight: don’t underinvest in shared services and “platform teams”

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Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:58

…or else all of the other teams that depend on them will slow down

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:13

Insight: get something “new” done, show the benefits and the better way of doing things, and then people will say they want onboard, too

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:09

Insight: understand where we’re trying to go as a company and connect to that

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:54

…and putting that in terms of what the customer wants is helpful

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:28

Insight: find the pain for the business and create a solution to address it

Martin (TeamForm)22:10:34

relating org direction - the roadmap - to the customer experience

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:28

Insight: having leadership who “gets” the tech and new ways of working certainly helps

Martin (TeamForm)22:10:55

make space (Eg hackathon) to reduce your pain, your toil. success is removing your toil (happiness up), which makes more time to work on the org's pain.

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:44

Challenge: difficulty convincing business leaders to pay down technical debt

Martin (TeamForm)22:10:23

thanks for running this session @jeff.gallimore!

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Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)22:10:45

my pleasure! great discussion!

Manny Avila - Consulting Engineer, Cloud and Datacenter - JD Finish Line22:10:55

Thanks everyone for the ideas and concepts....I very much appreciate it

Martin (TeamForm)22:10:53

@mavila907 sounds like you have done great work tackling that tech debt, tech supporting the business!

Manny Avila - Consulting Engineer, Cloud and Datacenter - JD Finish Line23:10:14

Thanks for that...I do my best...I tend to be very loyal to a company that in turn rewards me...I like it when things are on fire and like the pressure...my best work comes out...

Manny Avila - Consulting Engineer, Cloud and Datacenter - JD Finish Line23:10:13

and...been there 14 years...so most of the technical debt I am fighting I built.....

Jeff Gallimore (CTIO - Excella)23:10:12

@mavila907 i found the video from gene you should watch about technical debt: https://youtu.be/-Q72FFlQia8?t=841

Manny Avila - Consulting Engineer, Cloud and Datacenter - JD Finish Line23:10:08

Wow...that was good stuff...I copied the graph witht he up and down arrows...makes great sense and its something I can take back and get behind...

Manny Avila - Consulting Engineer, Cloud and Datacenter - JD Finish Line23:10:40

nothing will get there attention more than putting a halt on features....

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Andrew Yorra23:10:13

Great conversation today, thanks guys! Also, love the clip on debt and it’s impact on feature delivery…and the flip side of acceleration via investment in developer productivity

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