Eating your own Dog Food

presentation for COHAA 2012, Columbus OHIO

Transcript

1. cohaa 01 Pillar Technology Partners eating your own dog food Matt Van Vleet & DJ Daugherty
2. cohaa 02 Pillar Technology Partners who we are Matt van vleet COO / PRODUCT OWNER dj daugherty POLYGLOT
3. cohaa 03 Pillar Technology Partners ABOUT US OUR PHILOSOPHY WHAT WE THINK We are different... we are not just interested in cutting edge technology. We are interested in using technology to solve problems and deliver business value. OUR vision WHAT WE SEE Deliver the most value... in the shortest amount of time... with the biggest return on investment. do we eat our own dog food? HELL YEAH!!! Without constraints, we are learning even more. Delivering exponentially faster than we have ever before.
4. cohaa 04 Pillar Technology Partners format? STORY TIME W/ MATT
5. cohaa 05 Pillar Technology Partners let’s go !
6. cohaa 06 Pillar Technology Partners as matt and DJ, we want to talk about agile practices we use everyday, so that... others can see the value in our craziness !
7. cohaa 07 Pillar Technology Partners anyone hungry?
8. cohaa 08 Pillar Technology Partners as product owner, I want to fail fast if the current practices are not delivering a valuable solution, so that... I can change and deliver value quickly.
9. cohaa 09 Pillar Technology Partners fail fast FAILING FAST IS... GOOD COMPLETE FAILURE is... BAD
10. cohaa 10 Pillar Technology Partners fail fast failed 2 times before project NEW LANGUAGES (GROOVY/GRAILS & RUBY) 1. TOO MANY PRODUCT OWNERS 2. LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF DATA MODEL 3. TREATED AS LEARNING TOOL FOR INTERNS 4.
11. cohaa 11 Pillar Technology Partners fail fast success this time... Groovy / Grails 1. more focus 2. engaged product owner 3. overcome data model challenges 4. disposed of previous code 5.
12. cohaa 12 Pillar Technology Partners as product owner, I need a way to capture the features required by the customer, so that... i can deliver a valuable product quickly.
13. cohaa 13 Pillar Technology Partners value stories
14. cohaa 14 Pillar Technology Partners value story IS THE value story solved? move on !
15. cohaa 15 Pillar Technology Partners Learn
16. cohaa 16 Pillar Technology Partners HOW ABOUT NOW?
17. cohaa 17 Pillar Technology Partners as product owner, I need a way to to keep track of all of the features and stories... so that, I can effectively deliver a valuable product.
18. cohaa 18 Pillar Technology Partners card wall
19. cohaa 19 Pillar Technology Partners CARD WALL MAKE IS simple MAKE IT WORK thrown away regularly IT IS EASIER TO RE-PRIORITIZE WHEN EVERYTHING IS OUT OF THE WAY 2. nothing fancy WE CURRENTLY USE A SHARED GOOGLE SPREADSHEET 1. constant re-prioritization OUR CARD WALL IS ALWAYS CHANGING... WHATEVER IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST... IS THE NEXT PRIORITY. 3.
20. cohaa 20 Pillar Technology Partners as product owner, I want ‘things’ delivered quickly
21. cohaa 21 Pillar Technology Partners do less !
22. cohaa 22 Pillar Technology Partners do less ! Why?
23. cohaa 23 Pillar Technology Partners value story “PEOPLE LIE... ALTHOUGH, more charitably, you might say they don’t know what they want.” - TV’s Dr. Gregory House
24. cohaa 24 Pillar Technology Partners do less faster feedback FEEDBACK IS MUCH FASTER WHEN CODE IS RELEASED TO PRODUCTION MORE FREQUENTLY 1. validate ‘things’ are getting done MORE CONSISTENT WORKFLOW 2. prevent large batches into production TESTING IN PRODUCTION IS MUCH FASTER WHEN SMALL ‘THINGS’ NEED TESTED 3. constant improvement YOU ARE NEVER TOO FAR OFF IN THE WEEDS 4. ACTIONABLE TASKS BASED ON REAL USAGE... WITHOUT ASKING ! 5.
25. cohaa 25 Pillar Technology Partners as product owner, i need to solve my business problem, so that...
26. cohaa 26 Pillar Technology Partners perfection is not the goal
27. cohaa 27 Pillar Technology Partners form function over
28. cohaa 28 Pillar Technology Partners as product owner, I want my application in production, so that... I can use it.
29. cohaa 29 Pillar Technology Partners EARLY AND OFTEN deploy early and often
30. COHAA 30 Pillar Technology Partners EARLY AND OFTEN “if you are not embarrassed by [the first version of your product], you’ve launched too late!” - Reid Hoffman (co founder / chairman LinkedIn)
31. cohaa 31 Pillar Technology Partners how? early and often
32. cohaa 32 Pillar Technology Partners early and often continuous integration
33. cohaa 33 Pillar Technology Partners early and often continuous delivery
34. cohaa 34 Pillar Technology Partners early and often production ALL committed code is ready !
35. cohaa 35 Pillar Technology Partners continuous integration ALL TESTS ARE EXECUTED PRIOR TO ARTIFACT CREATION 1. PROMOTION TO PROD ONLY ARTIFACTS ARE MOVED 2. AUTOMATIC DELIVERY IF ARTIFACT CREATED... SHIP TO PRODUCTION 3. DEFINITION OF DONE WHAT IS IT? I DO NOT KNOW... ASK THE PRODUCT OWNER! 4. early and often
36. cohaa 36 Pillar Technology Partners How about now?
37. cohaa 37 Pillar Technology Partners as product owner, I need a way to release partially complete features to a subset of userS... so that I can gather feedback on a more timely basis.
38. cohaa 38 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggles
39. cohaa 39 Pillar Technology Partners “right now, out on facebook.com, is all the code for every major thing we’re gonna do in the next six months and beyond.” - Chuck Rossi (Facebook engineer) feature toggles
40. cohaa 40 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggles the key to ‘FAST’ DELIVERY
41. cohaa 41 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggles the key to delivering value
42. cohaa 42 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggle decouples deployment from act of feature live
43. cohaa 43 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggle there is a common complaint...
44. cohaa 44 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggle too much effort it takes
45. cohaa 45 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggle first class WE TREAT FEATURE TOGGLES AS FIRST CLASS CITIZENS 1. first consideration WE CONSIDER FEATURE TOGGLES WHEN FIRST DISCUSSING STORIES 2. THOUGHT CHANGE FEATURES TOGGLES ‘DO’ CHANGE THE WAY YOU CREATE STORIES 3.
46. cohaa 46 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggle AFTER YOU HAVE TOGGLES...
47. cohaa 47 Pillar Technology Partners feature toggle PARTIALLY COMPLETE WE CAN RELEASE PARTIALLY COMPLETE FEATURES TO A SUBSET OF USERS 1. DEGRADE WE CAN ALSO DEGRADE FEATURES FOR WHATEVER REASON 2. ROLL BACK... NOT !!! WE DO NOT ROLLBACK... DISABLE AND FIX 3.
48. cohaa 48 Pillar Technology Partners as Product owner, i need to deliver my product... on time and on budget, so that... I will meet the expectations of my customer.
49. cohaa 49 Pillar Technology Partners low cost of change
50. cohaa 50 Pillar Technology Partners low cost of change Test driven development ALL STORIES START WITH UNIT TESTS... INTEGRATION TESTS ! 1. CONTINUAL REFACTORING IN ORDER TO DELIVER VALUE... BOTH THE DELIVERY OF BUSINESS AND TECH STORIES ARE REQUIRED 2. help me here !!! VALUE DETERMINES PRIORITY... NOT TYPE 3.
51. cohaa 51 Pillar Technology Partners as a team member, i need to trust EACH MEMBER OF MY TEAM, so that... I can deliver a valuable product.
52. cohaa 52 Pillar Technology Partners trust
53. cohaa 53 Pillar Technology Partners TRUST lose the ego THERE ARE NO EGOS... WE ARE ALL TRYING TO SOLVE THE SAME PROBLEM 1. success factors NO BLAME GAME 2. THIS ISN’T THE THIRD GRADE !!! ADMIT THE UNKNOWN WHEN SOMETHING IS NOT KNOWN... BIG AND VISIBLE RESOLVES THE ISSUE MOST QUICKLY 3. WHAT NOT HOW PRODUCT OWNER FOCUSES ON PRODUCT, NOT IMPLEMENTATION 4. TRUST TO SUGGEST HOW PRODUCT OWNER SHOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO SUGGEST HOW 5.
54. cohaa 54 Pillar Technology Partners TRUST TECH DEBT EQUAL TO BUSINESS STORY, REQUIRED TO DELIVER VALUE 1. VALUE STORY DEFECTS 2. DEFECTS DISCOVERED FROM ‘REAL’ USAGE AND FEEDBACK USER STORIES DETERMINED BASED ON CURRENT VALUE STORY 3. REFACTORING PRIORITIZED THE SAME AS BUSINESS STORIES 4.
55. cohaa 55 Pillar Technology Partners last chance!
56. cohaa 57 Pillar Technology Partners THANKS as matt and DJ, we want to thank each of you for coming to listen to our craziness !
57. cohaa 58 Pillar Technology Partners FOLLOW US WE ARE ON THE WEB. follow us if you are interested in what we are currently interested in... working on... thinking about ! matt’s Information www.pillartechnology.com mvanvleet@pillartechnology.com @vleet dj’s Information ddaugherty@pillartechnology.com @ddaugher
58. NEUTRA 59 MINIMAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION WEB RESOURCES FIND OUT SLIDES ON THE WEB github repository https://github.com/ddaugher/eatingYourOwnDogfood
59. cohaa 60 Pillar Technology Partners QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Q& A Ask ‘em if you got ‘em