1. How To Do
Kick-Ass Software Development
Sven Peters, Atlassian
@svenpet

2. How to do
Kick-Ass
Software Development
@svenpet

3. Who expects to see some code?

4. System.out.println
("Sorry, you may leave now");

5. Who expects to learn a new
methodology?

6. There is no Kick-Ass manifesto!
...and no certification

7. Who just wants to kick ass?

8. Yes, that's me ;)
THIS IS YOUR TALK

9. How to do kick ass development?

10. Use Java

11. Use Java
...is not so important

12. Sven Peters
Atlassian Ambassador
svenpet.com
@svenpet

13. better software
less overhead
faster development
happy customer
happy developers
Agile

14. What's the state of
Agile
2013 ?

16. The Dark Manifesto of Agile Software
Development
We are uncovering better the only ways of developing
software by doing it and helping teaching others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over and not processes and tools
Working software over and not comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over and not contract negotiation
Responding to change over and not following a plan
That is, while since there is no value in the items
on the right, we value only the items on the left more.

17. Programming, Motherfucker
Do you speak it?

18. Is
Agile
dead?

19. The Gartner Hype Curve
Agile?

20. We need
some smart people!
Guru

21. Stop following the next guru
and kick-ass again

22. Deliver Kick-Ass Software
One Kick-Ass Team
Kick-Ass Collaboration
Kick-Ass Automation
Ass
Kick
in
g To
pics

23. Deliver
Kick-Ass Software

24. Building the right thing
before
How do we know?
Microsoft Kin

25. Fake it
til you
Make it

26. Speech-to-Text Experiment

27. even one step before that....
Paper
Prototypes

29. Software
are
oftw
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Con
ctio
tru
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ea Ar
n
ovin
pr
Im

30. Generate a kick-ass
Feedback
Experience

31. Easy to find
Make it simple
Fast to submit

32. GOT FEEDBACK?

33. GOT FEEDBACK?

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36. Protect
your Developers

37. The Sh*t umbrella
425 million user
100 developer

38. We're not doing

39. Everyone
On The
Front Line

40. Feedback
Close the Loop
and get pers nal

41. Developers
on
Support

42. Care about your customers!
Have an effective feedback loop
Keep improving!

43. One
Kick-Ass Team

44. Different
Developer
Roles
Responsibilities
Tester

45. The P
roble
Bottlenecks : Accountability : Scalability
Developer
Tester
ms

46. Developer
on
DoT
Test

47. So the developers are
doing all the work?

48. QA
Qual·i·ty As·sis·tance [kwol-i-tee] [uh-sis-tuh ns]
Quality is everybody's responsibility. QA employees help and train
developers to become better tester, testing the more complicated stuff,
creating test data, investigating in new test tools and working on test
strategies.

49. 6 Tips
for kick-ass DoTing

50. 1. Training

51. 2. Pairing

52. 3. Blitz Test

53. 4. Test Recipe*
* advanced doting

54. 5. Split Sessions*
* advanced doting

55. 6. Bug Hunter*
* advanced doting

56. Quality is everybody's responsibility

57. Department barriers slows you down!
Work together as one team!
Keep improving!

58. Kick-Ass
Collaboration

59. Lonesome Cowboy Coder

60. The trouble starts
with the team

63. Traffic Rules
are protecting us from accidents

64. Development Rules
are protecting us from making mistakes

66. BRANCH
PULL
MERGE

67. A branch
for every task

68. Branches
have short lives
average 2 days

69. we use
Pull Requests
what do you
think?

70. feel better
learn
better quality
blame
Why do you want to discuss
your code changes?

71. fast approvals
2+
moving fast

72. we prefer
Collocated
Teams

73. the truth is
It's not always
possible

74. Where
do you work best?
...in the office?
...in the coffee bar next door?
...on your couch at home?
it dep
ends

75. How
do you communicate
effectively?

76. offline
Emails
one to many
asynchronous
add people

77. Are you
crazy
?

78. too much

79. Prob
are bad for conversations
lots of spam
lems
Emails
often too long
needs an action

80. Prob
are bad for conversations
lots of spam
lems
Emails
often too long
needs an action

81. Who uses
Chat
?

82. Confluence
Developer
Design Team
Enterprise
Discussions
Beer Drinkers
Just the conversations you need to kick ass
Chat Rooms

83. Chat
is great for remote conversations
...and local!
People can stay in the zone

84. Chat
is great for different timezones
The chat records all conversations that happened during the night

85. Chat
can pull people into the conversation
with ease
Just @mention someone

86. Choose your tools wisely

89. Camera
We built portals!
TV
Mac mini

90. Remove collaboration friction.
Easy workflows -> fast development
Keep improving!

91. Kick-Ass
Automation

92. We're helping people
to be faster
by automating their work

93. How much time do you spend a week
to automate your software development?

94. Who is doing continuous integration?

95. Who kick-ass continuous integration?
is doing

96. Our builds
sucked
took to long
were too complicated
were unstable
missed a concept

97. Fail Fast

98. 4 things how to tame monster builds
and kick-ass again

99. 1. Pass the artifact

100. 2. Parallelize Tests

101. 3. Have a build strategy
performance tests
platform tests
nightly builds
less frequent (every hour)
building + unit & UI tests
every check in

102. Data Porn
4. Look at your stats!

103. Care a
b
out au
tomati
on
Faster builds >>
less task switching

104. More automation
awesomeness!

105. Flakey Test Detector
de up
his si
T
st
Te
ey
lak
F
care
with
andle
H

106. Wallboards

107. Freud Bot

108. Use your skills to automate things!
Keep improving!

109. Deliver Kick-Ass Software
One Kick-Ass Team
Kick-Ass Collaboration
Kick-Ass Automation

110. Kick-Ass Software Development

111. Is
Agile
dead?

112. Be excellent
in everything you do

113. Managers
are humans, too!
harder
easier

114. Share & failures
success

115. Build a kick-ass culture

116. Step out of your comfort zone
and be more awesome

117. Did you
kick ass
today?

118. Thanks!
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