How to Increase Software Developer Productivity

If you’re looking to get more out of your organisation’s software developers, increase your ROI, spend less money on fixing bugs or increase your development team’s business value release rate, this session is for you. Or you might be a software developer looking to lift your game to the next level.

There are many ways to lift software developers’ productivity and, as a result, the development team’s total output. This session addresses some quick wins, as well as some that take longer to implement.

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Maximising Quality with Least Spent: http://blog.binarymist.net/2012/03/24/how-to-optimise-your-testing-effort/
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* Improving quality is the best way to increase productivity
Emphasize quality at the end of your project and you emphasize system testing.
Emphasize quality in the middle of your project and you emphasize construction practices.
Emphasize quality at the beginning of your project and you plan for, require, and design a
high-quality product.

Detect errors at the stage when they are least time consuming and costly to correct.

* Bring the quality focus up front. It's much cheaper there

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Transcript

1. How to Increase Software Developer Productivity Kim Carter
2. I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers Thomas J Whatson. 1943. Chairman of IBM
3. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Improving quality is the best way to increase productivity Bring the quality focus up front
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7. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Pair Programming
8. Maximising Quality with Least Spent TDD
9. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Heartbleed, goto fail
10. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Test Condition Workshop
11. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Optimising your test effort
12. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Code Review
13. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Coding Standards, Conventions & Guidelines
14. Maximising Quality with Least Spent Design is emergent
15. Maximising Quality with Least Spent
16. People Top Talent 10 - 1 Productivity Going Rogue What do the Most Productive Programmers Look like?
17. Soft Tooling, Processes & Practices, Why it Matters Distributed Communication Version Control Work Item Tracking Wiki Build System
18. Hard Tooling, Why it Matters Screen Real Estate
19. Hard Tooling, Why it Matters Machine Speed
20. Hard Tooling, Why it Matters Desk Seating Arrangement
21. Continuity of Delivery CI Continuous Deployment Agile processes promote sustainable development Measure and reward fast running tests Measure Cyclomatic Complexity Static Code Analysis Executable Specifications
22. Overcoming Red Tape Establish the needs Seek first to understand, then to be understood
23. Overcoming Red Tape Relationships Establishing yourself as an expert Build Trust with the Influencers Talk with managers in private
24. Overcoming Red Tape Vocal influential Sceptics People's decisions are based on emotions
25. Biggest Morale & Productivity killers Undermined Motivation Adding people to Late Project Noisy, Crowded Offices Email Meetings
26. Biggest Morale & Productivity killers Context Switching Gerald Weinberg's rule
27. Top Developer Motivators In Order Developers love to develop software The Work it self  Variety of Skills (T)  Responsibility, Significance  Task Identity  Consumer and Pair Association  Autonomy
28. Top Developer Motivators In Order Ownership / Buy-in Goal Setting Opportunities for Growth Personal Life Technical Leadership
29. Recommended Reading  Fearless Change by Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising  Living Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg  Culture In The Workplace  BinaryMist blog  Rapid Development by Steve McConnell
32. Questions? Kim Carter Follow me @binarymist