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How to suck at developing a web app, when you’re not a web shop
- 1. Eric Light @RhyvenNZ ContactMe@EricLight.com
- 2. Audience Check Developers? (Duh...) Entrepreneurs? Project Managers?
- 3. Audience Check Developers? (Duh...) Entrepreneurs? Project Managers?
- 4. How to suck at developing a web app, when you’re not a web shop. On contracts, missed deadlines, and working with friends Eric Light @RhyvenNZ ContactMe@EricLight.com
- 5. How to suck On contracts, missed deadlines, and working with friends Eric Light @RhyvenNZ ContactMe@EricLight.com
- 6. A bit about Eric
- 8. A bit about Gravity Small team (techs == Jordan & Eric) Software development (still mostly in BASIC omg) IT Support, Server installs, etc. ... Web Development conspicuously absent
- 9. The Root of the Problem Typical ‘technician-founded’ company No systems. None Seriously, folks! Eric was every role Sales, Marketing, HR, Accounts, ZOMFG, FML
- 10. The Inspiration “I need you to call Geoffrey, and find out what he means by Ђξμδ.”
- 11. Need a tracking system
- 12. Brilliance! Wait a minute... we’re developers!
- 13. “Let’s build our own!” <trumpets>
- 15. The Plan Develop a web app for job tracking We were the target market Must be simple, fast, cheap
- 16. Implementation Brought it to a web dev Quoted 100hrs max(accepted reluctantly) 2 deadlines: Prototype – 6 wks To Market – 12 wks
- 18. All was hopeful... The month passed...
- 19. Welcome to Hell
- 20. ...Half way to deadline ...1 day before due ...3 days overdue ...2 weeks overdue “Each time I re-readthe scope I noticesomething new..” “I’ve hit a bitof a snag..” “I can’t figure out how to do this bit here...” *crickets*
- 22. The Meeting Me, the dev, plus 2 business partners Another month, guaranteed def quit_date: return mid-feb My blunder:“We’ll make these bits part of the final”
- 23. Quick Recap Now well overdue Still on prototype 100 hours, max 33% due on delivery
- 24. D-day Not really finished He said it was (remember: “prototype”) Payments / Billing -> final stage Demanded $$ for delivered prototype
- 25. déjà vu!
- 26. My expenses: About $6000+GST His effective rate: $10 per hour
- 27. What did we do right? Understood the problem clearly Kept a lid on scope creep Knew the target market Calculated commercial viability Defined a quit date (finally!)
- 28. Where we went wrong Failure to plan for failure No milestones No fallbacks For either party No prototyping Working with a friend, sanscontract
- 29. LoremIpsum
- 30. The Road Ahead
- 31. Early Warning Signs Your wife says it’s not going to work You haven’t done a paper prototype You don’t have a dated chart for functionality delivery dates Professionalism slips *crickets*
- 32. A haiku On a pre-planned date / if milestones aren’t yet met / inspect the darn code!
- 33. So remember... Plan for failure– have a graceful exit! Set clear milestones, with CRUD. This lets you track progress very finely! Your dev’s estimates are wrong. So are yours. Hofstadter’s Law
- 34. Communicate Communicate Communicate! Say: If I don’t enforce a term, it doesn’t change the contract, and I can still enforce it any time in the future.
- 35. Resources These slides are at pycon.ericlight.com Contractor template – email me GettingITRight.co.nz Business Technology Resource Centre “Avoiding Project Failure”, 2003 CIO Magazine “Lessons in Defeat”, 2011
- 36. Thanks David Richardson Additional critical brain Jordan Schwab learning SilverStripe to resurrect the project Stock.XCHNG (www.sxc.hu) Imagery Grant Paton-Simpson & Roger Smith Letting me present to them
- 37. “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they makeas they fly by.” Actual quote from my developer ... As well as Douglas Adams
- 38. Question Time!
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Note this talk is mostly around a failure in a contractual & business sense, not so much in a technical sense.
- I heart skiing, hiking, and my famiyTechie & coder, turned managerWrote first program at age 8 (in BASIC)Very involved in the NZCS & heaps of Waikato business groupsManaging Director of Gravity Computing
- I heart skiing, hiking, and open sourceTechie & coder, turned managerWrote first program at age 8 (in BASIC)Very involved in the NZCS & heaps of Waikato business groupsManaging Director of Gravity Computing
- No idea that things were going wrong until it was WAY too lateNo logical way to fix the situation once things had gone wrong