Tracking technology stacks, practices and experiences across teams
Jul 11, 2024
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Exploring the Tech Dash tool for tracking technology use, experiences, and practices across teams. Discussing challenges during growth, collaboration through surveys, and fostering innovation. Emphasizing data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
Tech Dash provides insights into technology usage and practices, aiding strategic decision-making.
Emphasizes transparency, trust, and collaboration in sharing technology data for growth and improvement.
Deep dives
Tech Dash - Enhancing Understanding of Technology and Practices
Tech Dash, a tool and process developed within the ThoughtWorks organization, aims to improve insights into technology usage, practices, and excellence within teams. Originating from ThoughtWorks Brazil's growth challenges, Tech Dash provides broad visibility into team's technological status, aiding various stakeholders in navigating changes and ultimately fostering excellence. It collects data on technology stacks, comfort levels with technologies, and implementation practices to facilitate continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making.
Fostering Transparency and Trust with TechDash
TechDash emphasizes transparency and trust, ensuring that data provided by teams is used to support growth and improvement rather than for punitive measures. By creating a safe environment for sharing technology data, Tech Dash promotes collaborative learning, understanding technology trends, and identifying common practices. It enables strategic decision-making, recognizing technology stack preferences, enhancing developer experiences, and supporting high-performing teams.
Benefits of TechDash for Organizational Insights
TechDash provides valuable insights at different organizational levels, from individual teams to portfolio management. It allows for the identification of technology trends, capabilities, and gaps within the organization, fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and strategic decision-making. By tracking technology adoption and comfort levels, Tech Dash helps in planning learning and development initiatives, staffing decisions, client engagements, and informing business and tech strategies. The tool contributes to building a community, sharing knowledge, and driving excellence across the organization.
Understanding your technology estate and how it's being leveraged is critical for organizations; it impacts everything from financial planning to capability development. But given the rapid pace of change — even inside a single company, let alone the wider industry — how can this be done effectively? One approach we've landed on at Thoughtworks is something called a Tech Dash: it's a method of internal research that surfaces information about an organization's technology use, and even software developers' experiences.
In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Camilla Crispim and Renan Martins talk to hosts Alexey Boas and Ken Mugrage about the value of a Tech Dash and explain how it can help track technology use. They also discuss where the idea came from and how they put it into practice across Thoughtworks Brazil.
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