How can Gandhism be valuable in building a successful software engineering team?

Gandhiji’s principle can be used in developing our software team!

Sarvodaya-  Sarvodaya is a term meaning 'Universal Uplift' or 'Progress of All',. Attracting competent developers is a challenge, retaining them is even more difficult. That is why HR managers and company leaders are paying so many concerns about developing employees.

When you invest time and money in your developers, not only do you boost their loyalty, you also help them cultivate new skills that will benefit your business.

Clear and Continuous Communication - Amid this pandemic, globally distributed teams and planning of remote teams is a great choice to build solutions rapidly.

The most efficient teams have high levels of communication, so take steps to maintain continuous communication between team members and between the team. Be it related to requirement discussions, identifying user stories or taking design decisions, clear and continuous communication is most important, team members should meet often to ensure everyone is on the same page. At these junctures, the team can set clear goals and parameters that will dictate each member’s work going forward.

Communication between team members can be drastically improved if you make an effort to expose people to team members they wouldn’t otherwise interact with regularly. 

Ensuring secure and automated DevOps practices - Information security testing is the practice of testing platforms, services, systems, applications, devices, and processes for information security vulnerabilities. It is typically highly automated with tools that scan for known vulnerabilities and simulate attacks using known threat patterns.

The goal of DevOps is to give development teams more ownership in monitoring their applications. Automating how we provision servers and deploy our applications is at the heart of DevOps. Automation helps us move faster which in turn results in high quality software.

Design thinking - Design thinking, a practice that combines creativity and structure to solve complex problems. Design thinking combined with its principle helps us foster a culture of innovation, and lets our teams generate and test ideas creatively and effectively, whether they’re trying to bring internet access to remote communities or developing new methodologies for interviewing potential employees. 

Design thinking builds people’s capacity to innovate by having them adopt and practice a certain mindset. 

Smaller milestones - Agile frameworks like SCRUM that teams use to produce products faster by breaking large development projects into smaller pieces that can be completed in short timeframes. Scrum meeting is a catch-all term that can describe different types of meetings held by Scrum teams.

According to Gandhian Ideology, Short term goals are being achieved first and then lead to big goals. Focus on Smaller milestones should be given the importance which leads to boosting employees and thereafter long-term goals are easily achieved. According to him, democracy provided the weak with the same chance as the strong. 

Final thoughts,

Building an effective team is nowhere near easy. It requires a rotation of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, in combination with other interpersonal skills and time management. 

Lots of effort, persistence, observation, and improvising must be exerted while facing up with the changing situation within the team, therefore you shall never put your guard off.

Establishing Gandhian Standards and Best Practices - Gandhian ideologies shaped the creation of institutions and practices where the voice and perspective of everyone can be articulated, tested, and transformed for an organized high performing goal oriented work environment.