Teal Organisations

Speaker: Sandro Mancuso

Description:

Most organisational models are broken and very few employees can say they are empowered and trusted to do their jobs. Most professionals today want far more than a job—they want to develop their careers, be part of the decision making, and have the power to reshape the organisation they work for, and most importantly, enjoy their work. In this talk Sandro will explain what Teal Organisations are and will describe some of the advantages and challenges of being part of a self-organised and self-managed company. He will be covering topics that include: complete flat structure, decentralised decision making, open financials, open salaries, recruitment, initiative circles, and cultural fit.

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Biography:

Sandro has been a professional programmer since 1996, co-founded the London Software Craftsmanship Community and his own Craftsmanship company, is a frequent speaker at many international conferences, and has written a well-received book about Software Craftsmanship called "The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride" (http://www.amazon.de/Software-Craftsman-Professionalism-Pragmatism-Robert/dp/0134052501), published in Uncle Bob's signature series at Prentice-Hall He is also a very likable guy and a brilliant presenter/trainer.He is a founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC) (http://londonswcraft.com/). Sandro has been coding since a very young age but only started his professional career in 1996. Before starting his own consultancy, he worked for startups, software houses, product companies, international consultancy companies, and investment banks. During his career Sandro had the opportunity to work in a good variety of projects, with different languages, technologies, and across many different industries. Sandro has a lot of experience in bringing the Software Craftsmanship ideology and Extreme Programming practices to organisations of all sizes. Sandro is internationally renowned by his work on evolving and spreading Software Craftsmanship and is frequently invited to speak in many conferences around the world. His professional aspiration is to raise the bar of the software industry by helping developers become better at and care more about their craft.