DevFest2024-Move Fast and Make Things - Going from idea to MVP and Beyond

This talk explores the journey of taking a product idea from concept to a successful launch. We'll discuss the power of rapid prototyping, leveraging technologies like Flutter and Firebase for cross-platform development. By embracing agility and a data-driven approach, individuals and teams can navigate the challenges of the market and achieve success.
Speaker: Arpit Mathur

Transcript

1. Move Fast and Make Things Arpit Mathur Comcast Emerging Products & Technologies A very opinionated take…
2. About Me grocerytimer.app rewards.xfinity.com
3. From Idea to Product Ideate Scale Validate
5. Ideation
6. "In the modern era, the big eat the small, but fast eats the slow. Speed and agility are the ultimate weapons in product development." – Eric Ries, Author of The Lean Startup "It doesn’t matter how fast you’re going if you’re headed in the wrong direction." – Unknown Setting expectations
7. 3 thoughts on projects Plan carefully, execute swiftly Everything is a thesis Prioritization is everything
8. Google Project Glass: Official Concept Walkthrough Video, "One Day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R1snVxGNVs Build a concept prototype “If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings.ˮ – Tom & David Kelley Corning: A day of Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R1snVxGN Vs Ideo: The future of the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLSdzGDxq VU
9. Tracking work • Choosing Scrum vs Kanban
10. Building your idea
11. Choosing your tech stack Mature technologies offer reduced risk due to their well-tested nature and extensive support resources, leading to faster development cycles New technologies may be better tailored to your problem and may be more engaging to your smartest engineers
12. Use the Web, Luke Why PWAs? - Install as native app - WebAssemby - Push notifications - Native share sheets - Local file processing - Faster iteration cycles - Lower barrier to entry
13. Choosing Flutter - Cross-Platform Development - Fast Development - Expressive and Beautiful UI - Excellent Performance - Large and Growing Community
14. Tech Stack - Docker - Github Actions - AWS / GCP - Firebase - Hosting - Analytics - Remote Config - (Extensions) - Flutter - (AI Agents?)
15. Minimum viable code Buy over build (Managed platforms are your friends) Reject vanity metrics (Test coverage) Build for feedback (analytics) “The best code is no code at all. Every new line of code you willingly bring into the world is code that has to be debugged, code that has to be read and understood, code that has to be supported” – Jeff Atwood
16. Scaling your idea
17. Building consensus “If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together” – African Proverb
18. Carefully embrace the rewrite - Beware blue skies and green fields - Beware NIH syndrome - What got you here won’t get you there
19. Building your team - Create Chaordic organizations - Process vs Systems - Support Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
20. Thank you https://arpitmathur.substack.com/