Software teams in global finance

[2014-08-08 Fri 12:09] speaker: T-Kiang Tan event: Hackers & Painters ** CTO of grasshopper proprietary trading firm 20 developer, about the same number of traders ** meetings

• do I need to be there?
• ask for an agenda
• result? ** global finance trading has highest priority not software ** max team size 6 otherwise meetings take too long more complexity ** project duration 9 months in time for year end bonus ** connections loneliness < 25 < overwhelm

** project management enable direct communication between developers and subject matter experts understand technology and business requirements communicate with management ** thoughts on teams

• mission statement
• small releases
• team structure
• no deadlines ** top IT project list
• trading
• risk management
• regulatory
• research and development
• market data
• operations ** getting into this industry
• get onto the approved vendors list, do first proj at a loss
• good balance sheet
• presentation ** money management is more important than trading strategy diversify your porfolio cap your losses