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Developer Driven Development

Developer Driven Development

This talk is about software development process at the team level. It is about how GitHub manages our software development team. Instead of a typical management or agile structure, we embrace several features of the Open Source development workflow, using a mix of autonomy, responsibility, no meetings, no backlog, no roadmap, no vacation day limits and free beer to keep our developers motivated and shipping.

Scott Chacon

April 06, 2011
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  1. individuals choose what they want to work on still get

    bugs, unsexy things teams self assemble to solve larger problems
  2. autonomy power / responsibility no meetings no feature requests /

    backlog no roadmap no vacations free beer
  3. keep your devs more flexible always working on something they

    want more skin in the game better retention (recruiting is very expensive)