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May 22, 2017
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Developer Onboarding

My talk as given at DevXCon SF 2017

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Cristiano Betta

May 22, 2017

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Transcript

  1. SE7EN The Sins of Developer Onboarding

  2. Cristiano Betta

  3. DX Designer

  4. betta.io

  5. @cbetta

  6. I get angry

  7. Very angry

  8. None
  9. None

  10. $$$

  11. HACKATHONS

  12. T-SHIRTS

  13. DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

  14. AAARRRRRRRRR

  15. AAARRRRRRRRR

  16. SE7EN The Sins of Developer Onboarding

  17. DEADLY The Sins of Developer Onboarding

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  20. 1

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  22. WAT?

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  24. FTP?

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  26. CURL?

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  28. 2

  29. Get Started

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  35. What do you value?

  36. Email addresses?

  37. Twitter followers?

  38. Paying users?

  39. 3

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  48. PUNCH ME

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  51. Product

  52. API + Docs

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  54. Extra

  55. community

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  61. 4

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  67. Perfection Broken

  68. Perfection Broken Good Enough

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  70. ?????????

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  74. 5

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  81. 6

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  95. community

  96. DESIRE

  97. 1. Jargon-y The desire to show others that your are

    a smart-ass The desire to have show people you’re smarter than them

  98. 2. Unfocussed The desire to posses email addresses The desire

    to have others just figure stuff out on their own

  99. 3. Undisciplined The desire to ship before the documentation is

    ready The desire to ship before a product it is ready

  100. 4. Arrogant The desire for everyone to learn the way

    you learn The desire to want a product that magically explains itself

  101. 5. Scrooge The desire to make money The desire to

    make money of everyone

  102. 6. Frustrated The desire to punish bad behaviour The desire

    to have others deal with your spam problem

  103. 7. Short sighted The desire to have others make your

    SDKs for you The desire to have a product that doesn't need SDKs

  104. Hanlon’s Razor

  105. Hanlon’s Razor “Never attribute to MALICE that which is adequately

    explained by INABILITY”

  106. Cristiano Betta [email protected] work.betta.io @cbetta

  107. DevXCon Workshop May 23, 2̸17 betta.io

  108. Cristiano Betta [email protected] work.betta.io @cbetta