Beyond Agile: Open Development Methodology [Canadian Tech @ Scale]

The Open Source Natural Workflow as a Software Development Methodology. Presented at Canadian Tech @ Scale.

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1. Beyond Agile Beyond Agile The Open Development Methodology Ahmad Nassri / Canadian Tech @ Scale #OpenDevelopmentMethod OpenDevelopmentMethod.org
2. Hai! Hai! Entrepreneur, Hacker, Developer Entrepreneur, Hacker, Developer Open Source Advocate & Dog Lover Open Source Advocate & Dog Lover @AhmadNassri http://ahmad.codes VP of Engineering at Mashape, Founder at Tech Masters, Mentor at Node School Toronto, Director at Full Stack Toronto, Director at Open API Initiative, Editor at The RESTful Web.
3. Open Development Open Development Methodology Methodology Lessons learned from leading development teams globally through Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Open Source Development
4. Methodology Methodology NOT NOT Process Process Methodology [meth-uh-dol-uh-jee] The underlying principles and rules of organization of a philosophical system or inquiry procedure.
5. GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. .
6. Software Software Development Development Project Management, Product Management, Client Demands, Design, Quality Assurance, Feature Creep, Testing, User Experience, Architecture, Tools, Deadlines, etc ...
7. Waterfall Waterfall Scrum Scrum AGILE AGILE EXTREME EXTREME LEAN LEAN TDD TDD BDD BDD
8. Waterfall Waterfall Scrum Scrum AGILE AGILE EXTREME EXTREME LEAN LEAN TDD TDD BDD BDD
9. GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. .
12. 7 7 Cities Cities 8 8 Languages Languages 6 6 Time Zones Time Zones 11 11 Nationalities Nationalities
13. 16 Companies, 10+ Cities, 10+ Nationalities 5+ Departments, All Provinces, 2 Languages 5 Cities, 4 Timezones 2 Cities, 2 Timezones
14. GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. .
15. Open Source Community Open Source Community ALL ALL Cities Cities ALL ALL Languages Languages ALL ALL Nationalities Nationalities ALL ALL Time Zones Time Zones
17. GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. .
18. Core Tenets Core Tenets Quality: slay the technical debt monster Documentation: your project's legacy Test: successful tests speak louder than features Discuss: everything is a discussion & everyone has a say Transparency: everybody can see everything Asynchronicity: assume no meetings, no direct answers Democracy: everybody decides, together.
19. Quality First Quality First “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” ― Martin Golding, Code For The Maintainer
20. Document Document ALL ALL The Things! The Things! “Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing..” ― Dick Brandon
21. Open Discussions Open Discussions “Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.” ― Paul Arden
22. Test Everything Test Everything “Test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest.” ― Boris Beizer
23. Be Transparent Be Transparent “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.” ― John Gerzema
24. Life is asynchronous Life is asynchronous You can automate & synchronize machines, but you cannot synchronize nor automate humans! ― me, Just now.
25. Embrace Democracy Embrace Democracy Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. Successful organizations need open leadership by Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst For leaders who want to encourage the best ideas, hear honest advice, and attract (and retain) the brightest talent.
27. Catalyst-In-Chief (May 31st!) by Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst How open source principles can form the bedrock of the twenty-first century's most innovative organizations—and teaches tomorrow's leaders what they'll need to make those organizations great.
28. TODO is an open group of companies who want to collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective open source projects and programs. TODOgroup.org
29. GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. .
30. Still Evolving Still Evolving
31. Let's collaborate! Let's collaborate! OpenDevelopmentMethod.org @AhmadNassri