An important component of building software is people and how teams are build and led to success. These slides were presented by Ricardo Parro at Tradeshift offices on 15th of July 2016.

1. Building
winning tech teams
that disrupt the status quo

3. @ricardoparro#ricardopleasestoptalkingaboutfootballasyouaretheonlyportugueseintheroom

4. London, Wonga.com and Jonty Hurwitz

5. São Paulo and Printi.com

6. Learnings

7. Product Development
Process
Functional Specs
Technical Specs
Joel on Software - Painless Functional Specifications

8. Data Driven Product
Development
Short feedback loops
Iterative
Better, faster decisions

9. Data Driven Product
Development
Assumptions
Ego
Context

10. Development Process
Non bureaucratic
Simple as possible
Silent

11. Team Mission

12. Talent and Diversity

13. Consistency
Marathon composed of sprints

14. Controlled Chaos
Single point of contact
"Closed door policy"
Communication

15. Embracing Change
Outside of Comfort Zone
Force Changes

16. Fail Friendly Environment
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Celebrate failure

17. Fail Wall

18. Lean startup
Retrospectives

20. Team Structure
Feels like a "mini
startup"
Self Organizing
Takes ownership

21. Teams Structure

22. Enter Tradeshift

23. Risk Team

24. Business Analytics Team

25. Hard problems to solve

26. Connect all companies in the
World

27. We Hack

28. We are hiring!

29. Questions?

30. Interesting Resources
Leaders eat last
Good Product Manager, Bad Product
Manager
Spotify Engineering culture videos

31. Interesting Resources
The hard thing about hard things
Joel on Software
Smart and get things done