Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Minimum Viable Development
Search
Donn Felker
March 15, 2016
Programming
4
9.6k
Minimum Viable Development
Slides for the Minimum Viable Development talk given at Kotlin ∪ Android on March 14th, 2016.
Donn Felker
March 15, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Donn Felker
See All by Donn Felker
Testing for Success in the Real World
donnfelker
3
400
Realm - Droidcon 2016
donnfelker
7
390
Realm - NY Android Meetup
donnfelker
1
520
Realm - a New, Easy to Use Mobile Database & Object Framework
donnfelker
8
330
Understanding Build Variants
donnfelker
3
150
Android From The Trenches
donnfelker
11
890
Starting and Growing Your Career as a Freelancer/Consultant
donnfelker
6
300
Building Web APIs with Hapi.js and MongoDB (Mongoose)
donnfelker
11
6.8k
Approaches to Managing Genomic (DNA) Data
donnfelker
0
86
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
Android16 Migration Stories ~Building a Pattern for Android OS upgrades~
reoandroider
0
130
大規模アプリのDIフレームワーク刷新戦略 ~過去最大規模の並行開発を止めずにアプリ全体に導入するまで~
mot_techtalk
1
470
bootcamp2025_バックエンド研修_WebAPIサーバ作成.pdf
geniee_inc
0
120
What Spring Developers Should Know About Jakarta EE
ivargrimstad
0
380
Google Opalで使える37のライブラリ
mickey_kubo
3
130
The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java
ivargrimstad
0
380
ALL CODE BASE ARE BELONG TO STUDY
uzulla
27
6.6k
テーブル定義書の構造化抽出して、生成AIでDWH分析を試してみた / devio2025tokyo
kasacchiful
0
250
Writing Better Go: Lessons from 10 Code Reviews
konradreiche
3
5.5k
バッチ処理を「状態の記録」から「事実の記録」へ
panda728
PRO
0
180
組込みだけじゃない!TinyGo で始める無料クラウド開発入門
otakakot
2
350
SODA - FACT BOOK(JP)
sodainc
1
8.6k
Featured
See All Featured
Raft: Consensus for Rubyists
vanstee
140
7.2k
A Tale of Four Properties
chriscoyier
161
23k
Building an army of robots
kneath
306
46k
Building Adaptive Systems
keathley
44
2.8k
The World Runs on Bad Software
bkeepers
PRO
72
11k
YesSQL, Process and Tooling at Scale
rocio
173
14k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
95
14k
Making Projects Easy
brettharned
120
6.4k
The Art of Delivering Value - GDevCon NA Keynote
reverentgeek
16
1.7k
The Invisible Side of Design
smashingmag
302
51k
"I'm Feeling Lucky" - Building Great Search Experiences for Today's Users (#IAC19)
danielanewman
230
22k
Visualization
eitanlees
149
16k
Transcript
Minimum Viable Development Get stuff done, ship on time, and
stop fussing with analysis paralysis @donnfelker
Donn Felker » Fragmented Podcast w/ Kaushik Gopal » Teaching
#AndroidDev Caster.IO » #AndroidDev Digest (androiddevdigest.com) » AndroidJobs.IO » 4x Android Author » Consultant / Intl. Speaker
How this talk is organized 1. Soft Skills 2. Tactics
Paradigm Shift The majority of getting things done is mental
Minimum Viable Development
Using the minimum amount of effort & time to accomplish
a development task to move the business forward.
Isn't that what we all do anyway?
Perfectionism and maybe a little bit of FOMO
Perfectionism Example The Insurance company
Analysis Paralysis
#AndroidDev Examples
Should I use Fragments or custom views or something like
Flow and Mortar?
Should I re-write my entire app to use RX?
Should I use this new MVP FRAMEWORK?
how do you keep analysis paralysis at arms length?
Before you make any new dev decision, ask yourself this
-
Is this going to enable me to ship faster?
Does this enable the code to be maintainable?
But ... is shipping faster really the only goal?
An early stage startup with a short runway needs to
prove a market faster than an established Fortune 500 company.
The type of business determines how you should develop
Think like a business owner
Everything is an Experiment
Ok, Stop. Story Time
Everything is an Experiment
Let go of the emotional attachment to code. The code
is not your identity
"But, my Code is art, man..."
Your code is art. But its art that's sold to
someone else. Once it's done, let got of it.
Tactics to Ship On Time
Timeboxing
Example: A new, difficult, uncharted task - Give it 30
minutes to see how far you can get. Or 1 hour. Maybe 2. Then re-evaluate.
Location Oriented Development
Meetings are no longer than 15 minutes
Place all meetings at end or beginning of work day.
Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule - Paul Graham
Get Creative Think outside of the box
An Example
None
None
Use what works. Use what you know.
Android Libs that Help me move faster
Dagger Butterknife RxJava Retrofit Timber Realm
So, Should you use Retrolambda, RxJava, MVP and Flow and
Mortar?
It Depends. Just ask yourself ...
Does it enable me to ship faster with maintainable code?
Thank You