Nick Drochak
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Nick is an accomplished software architect & team lead with extensive hands-on software development experience. He has guided many teams successfully through the full software development life cycle. He has experience with very large, high-transaction systems running reliably on cloud platforms. He has also assisted several teams in adopting agile practices for more reliable and valuable software delivery.
He also has extensive international professional experience having spent a total of 18 years living in Japan, providing him strong multicultural skills and sensitivities. As well, Nick’s entrepreneurial achievements have garnered him a solid foundation in strategic business execution and navigating tradeoffs and ambiguity.
Nick is now leading (and growing!) Slalom's Technology Enablement practice in Japan. This includes a team of experienced consultants with expertise in Custom Software Engineering, Agile Delivery, Cloud Architecture, DevOps & Security and Product Engineering. They focus on helping their clients solve their most complicated technical challenges and transform the way they deliver and foster their own technology capabilities in-house.
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keyboard_arrow_downExtreme Team Ownership
Omar GaleanoQuality Engineering PrincipalSlalom
Nick DrochakDelivery DirectorSlalomschedule 1 year ago
45 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Who owns it?
For a software development team, ownership is the responsibility each person takes to achieve the overall project objectives and its success. Culturally, teams in Japan and the West, particularly in the US, approach ownership quite differently. For the latter, it can amount to making sure we have someone to blame when things go badly, and for the former it can be so that no one can be blamed.
There are things to learn from both cultures, and a way we have seen successful teams deliver high-value outcomes for the stakeholders can be seen as a blend of both. Taking some ideas from the book “Extreme Ownership” we will review a way of thinking about ownership on software development project teams.
Japanese interpretation provided.
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