Beyond Agile: The Open Development Methodology

The Open Source Natural Workflow as a Software Development Methodology. Presented at #DevTO 2016

1. Beyond Agile Beyond Agile The Open Development Methodology @AhmadNassri #OpenDevelopmentMethod OpenDevelopmentMethod.org
2. Open Development Open Development Methodology Methodology Lessons learned from leading global development teams through Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Open Source Development
3. 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.
4. Who's This Guy? Who's This Guy? Entrepreneur, Hacker, Developer Entrepreneur, Hacker, Developer Open Source Advocate & Dog Lover Open Source Advocate & Dog Lover @AhmadNassri http://ahmad.codes Work Fun
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
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. .
13. 7 7 Cities Cities 8 8 Languages Languages 8 8 Nationalities Nationalities 6 6 Time Zones Time Zones
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
20. “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
21. Document Document ALL ALL The Things! The Things!
22. “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
23. Test Everything Test Everything
24. “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
25. Open Discussions Open Discussions
26. “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
27. Be Transparent Be Transparent
28. “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.” ― John Gerzema
29. Life is asynchronous Life is asynchronous
30. You can automate & synchronize machines, but you cannot synchronize nor automate humans! ― me, Just now.
31. Embrace Democracy Embrace Democracy
32. 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
33. Still Evolving Still Evolving
34. GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. .
35. Let's collaborate! Let's collaborate! OpenDevelopmentMethod.org OpenDevelopmentMethod.org/devto