Monki Gras 2018 notes Friday Morning

Mazz Mosley - Sustainability in a Tech Startup

@mnowster

Fashion Industry

• 10% of all products go straight to landfill, because it's not tailored to demand
• Zara shortened the supply chain from 2 month to 2 weeks
• Nike customised trainers make up 25% of their online sales

Unmade

https://www.unmade.com/

• On demand manufacture
• Automated knitting machines
• Global supply chain for on-demand knitwear
  • Customisation editor - online
  • e-commerce integration
  • Manufacturing
  • Knitting programs
  • Shipping
• Changing R&D code to SLA code is quite tricky
• Yay Open Source People
• I don't have time to develop the perfect architecture
• Don't get attached to any one bit of code

Challenges

• Remote manufacturing
• Agile is not a thing you buy, Agile is a thing you are
• The tech industry is still terrible at hiring
• Only hiring Senior devs is not sustainable
• Hiring Bias
  • Men are hired on their Potential
  • Women are hired on their past record

What can you do

• Read more books
  • Daring Greatly - Brené Brown
  • Mindset - Dr Carlos Dweck
  • Primal Leadership - Daniel Goleman
  • Database Reliability Engineering - Laine Campbell, Charity Majors

Mandy Whaley - Marie Curie & Open Source Kickstarter and Women in Tech

@mandywhaley

Marie Curie Timeline

Marie Cuire's note books are still radioactive 100 years on.

5 duels were thought over the honour of Marie Curie:

The first Kickstarter, crowdfunding was to buy Marie Curie 1gram of Radium.

Read:

• The Cuckoo's Egg - Cliff Stoll
• Making Marie Curie - Eva Hemmungs Wirten

Ricardo J Mendez - It's all about the curry

@ArgesRic

Craft is nice, but now I have a job to do

What is craft?

• Doing things by hand?
• Skill?
• Tradition?

Jiro Dreams of Sushi - Jiro's Quest for Perfection

• To improvise you need to trust your fellow players/team mates
• Diversity generates good teams
• If you're running a team you work for them not the other way round
• Define best practise
  • Best practised help you when things are going bad
• Build good habits
• Train!
• Allies:
  • give you perspective
  • challenge you
• The wrong people will turn your whole day into "Table-Flipping O'Clock"
• Frameworks are training wheels for the mind
  • they're useful when starting, but soon become a hindrance

Joni Saylor - The Design Process at IBM

@JoniSaylor

• Good Design is Good Business - Eliot Noyes

Powers of Ten

Craft can not sustain without a culture that supports it - Phil Gilbert

People + practices + Places = Culture

Lessons

1. Don't be an "other." Embed designers + craft into teams.
2. Fall in love with your medium and domains as soon as possible.
3. Decentralize leadership and ownership of Craft.
4. Design thinking paves the way for craft to thrive.
   1. Observe, Reflect, Make
5. Create spaces that enable craft and nurture makers.
6. Best practice evolves but craft stays constant

Sam - Gypsy Hill Brewing

Maintaining the quality of your craft

• Invest in equipment
  • invest to last
• Invest in team
  • Culture in is brand out
• Build defensible product differentiation
  • no one can copy you
• Be bold
  • seek out different ways you can achieve the most out of every pound you spend