Minimum Viable Development

Slides for the Minimum Viable Development talk given at Kotlin ∪ Android on March 14th, 2016.

Transcript

1. Minimum Viable Development Get stuff done, ship on time, and stop fussing with analysis paralysis @donnfelker
2. Donn Felker » Fragmented Podcast w/ Kaushik Gopal » Teaching #AndroidDev Caster.IO » #AndroidDev Digest (androiddevdigest.com) » AndroidJobs.IO » 4x Android Author » Consultant / Intl. Speaker
3. How this talk is organized 1. Soft Skills 2. Tactics
4. Paradigm Shift The majority of getting things done is mental
5. Minimum Viable Development
6. Using the minimum amount of effort & time to accomplish a development task to move the business forward.
7. Isn't that what we all do anyway?
8. Perfectionism and maybe a little bit of FOMO
9. Perfectionism Example The Insurance company
10. Analysis Paralysis
11. #AndroidDev Examples
12. Should I use Fragments or custom views or something like Flow and Mortar?
13. Should I re-write my entire app to use RX?
14. Should I use this new MVP FRAMEWORK?
15. how do you keep analysis paralysis at arms length?
16. Before you make any new dev decision, ask yourself this -
17. Is this going to enable me to ship faster?
18. Does this enable the code to be maintainable?
19. But ... is shipping faster really the only goal?
20. An early stage startup with a short runway needs to prove a market faster than an established Fortune 500 company.
21. The type of business determines how you should develop
22. Think like a business owner
23. Everything is an Experiment
24. Ok, Stop. Story Time
25. Everything is an Experiment
26. Let go of the emotional attachment to code. The code is not your identity
27. "But, my Code is art, man..."
28. Your code is art. But its art that's sold to someone else. Once it's done, let got of it.
29. Tactics to Ship On Time
30. Timeboxing
31. 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.
32. Location Oriented Development
33. Meetings are no longer than 15 minutes
34. Place all meetings at end or beginning of work day. Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule - Paul Graham
35. Get Creative Think outside of the box
36. An Example
39. Use what works. Use what you know.
40. Android Libs that Help me move faster
41. Dagger Butterknife RxJava Retrofit Timber Realm
42. So, Should you use Retrolambda, RxJava, MVP and Flow and Mortar?
43. It Depends. Just ask yourself ...
44. Does it enable me to ship faster with maintainable code?
45. Thank You