DrupalCon Dublin 2016: Dream Team therapy or how to maintain humans within a team.
Channel: Drupal Association
Date: 28/09/2016

Team mental health is not an IT task. Not always, frankly speaking.

Well, honestly, there are a lot of use cases where "developers" had success about team building or crisis management, but it is more about luck, not about a common rule.

Team psychology is a science. By spending 8+ years for learning and practicing personal and group therapy, alongside with Drupal development, speaker was able to draw parallels between psychology and development processes, like

Pair Programming is sort of personal sessions about growing up for both
Team building has a lot of similarity with group therapy where hidden issues are roots of all evils
Distributed team members as well as closed, office based, need a lot of personal attention from Team Leads, Project Managers and other members for been able to create healthy ecosystem within
Talks(real, close dialogs, not a chicken s**t) is a powerful tool even in terms of projects delivery
Group desicions lead to better risk managementm then ones, made by one team members and here we(development teams) can grab a lot of experience from group therapy
Empathy is more usable when it is allowed from administrative operations as a company rule
Relaxing flow is more preffered for getting creative decisions(Design and Architecture) then tough, army based company control
Sometimes HR managers can help much more in order to not break deadlines than experienced developers or leads
By attending the session you will be able to discuss a real use cases about managing international teams, confict management, motivation for a different cultural issues and how to decide in what area the issue is - development, management or psychological.

Welcome to attend.