What does it take for a software development process to result in a successful outcome? What are the factors that lead to that success? Join me for stories from the field to take you into the heart of a successful (and/or failed) software development process. Bring in your curiosity and don’t hesitate to ask any questions that come to your mind.

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Inner Stories of Successful Software
Development; Discovering The
Golden Key Of
Shahin Sheidaei

2. @sheidaei
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Hello! Nice to Meet you!
Shahin Sheidaei
Founder & Principal Coach
Elevate Change Inc.
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What Are We Going
to Talk About?
1. Experiences, observations, and learnings of
Software Development
2. Failures and Patterns
3. A tool that you might use, and it might be stinky!
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Let’s do
Software
Development
My Story
We’re
Smart!
Even they are
doing it!
Code is
Future!
Artificial
Everything
It’s the
Trend!
It’s cool!
Solving Puzzle
You and
Machine

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Software Development Process
● Structured Programming
● Cap Gemini SDM
● Structured systems analysis and
design method
● Information Requirement
Analysis/Soft systems
methodology
● Object-oriented programming
(OOP)
● Rapid application development
(RAD)
● Dynamic systems development
method (DSDM)
● Scrum
● Team software process
● Rational Unified Process (RUP)
● Extreme programming
● Agile Unified Process (AUP)
● Disciplined agile delivery (DAD)
● Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
● Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
● DevOps

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Software Development Process
● Structured Programming
● Cap Gemini SDM
● Structured systems analysis and
design method
● Information Requirement
Analysis/Soft systems
methodology
● Object-oriented programming
(OOP)
● Rapid application development
(RAD)
● Dynamic systems development
method (DSDM)
● Scrum
● Team software process
● Rational Unified Process (RUP)
● Extreme programming
● Agile Unified Process (AUP)
● Disciplined agile delivery (DAD)
● Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
● Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
● DevOps

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SD Methodologies & Principles
● Agile development
● Continuous integration
● Incremental development
● Rapid application development
● Spiral development
● Waterfall development
● Design Patterns
● SOLID
● Mocking
● Testing First Development
● ...

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● Java
○ 1.5
○ 1.6
● JavaScript
○ JScript
○ React
○ NodeJ
○ Angular
Framework after Framework too!

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What Can Go Wrong?
● So many options to choose from?
○ Processes
○ Frameworks
○ Methodologies
○ Principles
○ ...
● We are smart, collectively!
● The result should be awesome!

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Working Hard Story
● Team Lead
● Spinning hard
● Less than 5% used it
Sequential
(Waterfall)

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Working Hard Story Team Lead
Spinning hard
Less than 5% used it
Sequential
(Waterfall)

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Shouting Story
Scrum Master
Team Set up
Sprint Review
A request from VP
Scrum

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Shouting Story Scrum Master
Team Set up
Sprint Review
A request from VP
Scrum

15. Government Story
Kanban
A big program
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16. Government Story
Still lots of handoffs,
miscommunication,
missed requirements ...
Still lots of dependencies,
with other teams to make it
Done Done!
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17. Government Story
Kanban for the
Infrastructure Team
It’s a gentle change, meet
them where they are
...
It’s a flow, let’s Kanban! Security Tooling Incident Infra
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18. Government Story
Started locally, to elevate
all to a level that we can
talk about flow.
To show them the
common denominator to
agree upon.
If you think about it, each
providing a service.
Although systematically
looking was a service for
Dev teams.
Security Tooling Incident Infra
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19. Government Story
We got some local to
whole flow optimization:
Agree on Dissatisfactions
was not there: The basis
of evolution.
Each providing a service.
Changes of managers in
between, consultants as
managers, not there for
the full picture.
Security Tooling Incident Infra
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20. What Happened at Last?
Was it the culture the root
cause?
A complex domain it is.
No more consultants!
No more transformations!
Organization-wide cease.
Was it the layers of
Decision Making?
Was it the vision?
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21. Is that All? More Story? Around It? In Depth?
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22. Speed of “things” ...
Startup
Telecommunications
Banks
Government
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23. Work/Life Balance
After a month
No one showed up
This was for a session to
agree on change
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24. Doers v.s. Deciders
Security Tooling
Incident
Support
Infrastru
cture
4 Senior
Leadership
w/o CIO
Team of 6
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25. Success in Software Development is more than ...
Processes
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Framework
Methodology

26. Success is more about ...
People
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Change
Whole Working

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Integral Theory
Leadership Circle
There are more than things just “Software”

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There are more than
things “Software” and even
can be combined!

29. Since 2000, over 52% of fortune 500 companies are
gone
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It’s a fast pace, complex and always changing world we live in!
Speed of change is
amazingly fast!

30. Success is more about ...
People
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Change
Whole Working

31. The Good News is ...
On The Right Path
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Build On Software Developer
Skills you have
Experience, Fail, Learn & GROW

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Thanks
Shahin Sheidaei
Founder & Principal Coach
Elevate Change Inc.
twitter.com/sheidaei linkedin.com/in/sheidaei shahin@elevatechange.co