How to become a better software company technically

I was in Kathmandu,Nepal for a week at the end of November and this time I talked about how to become a better software
company technically at YIPL done on 24-Nov-2014.

Generally the software scene in Nepal is good, a handful are working at big scale with hundreds of software engineers
and many are small with some developers. A thing I noticed talking with developers is that mostly is only about **making
things work**. The need to follow a proper release cycle with gitflow, or even follow a
defined issue flow and testing it in multiple environments is not felt.

Transcript

1. HOW TO BECOME A BETTER SOFTWARE COMPANY TECHNICALLY BY: GESHAN MANANDHAR
2. GESHAN MANANDHAR QUALITY AND MAINTENANCE LEAD, NAMSHI.COM CO-FOUNDER YIPL @GESHAN GESHAN.COM.NP
3. DO YOU WANT YIPL TO BECOME A BETTER SOFTWARE COMPANY, TECHNICALLY?
4. DO YOU WANT TO BE A BETTER SOFTWARE ENGINEER/DEVELOPER/PROGRAMMER?
5. DO YOU WANT TO BE A BETTER DESIGNER/FRONTEND ENGINEER?
6. DO YOU WANT TO BE A BETTER SYS ADMIN/SYSTEM ENGINEER/DEVOPS ENGINEER?
7. "YOU CANNOT IMPROVE WHAT YOU CANNOT MEASURE" - W. EDWARDS DEMING
8. IMPROVING CODE AND DECREASING TECHNICAL DEBT IS ALWAYS A GOOD APPROACH.
9. WILL TO IMPROVE IS AN ATTITUDE NOT A ONE TIME JOB, REQUIRES LOTS OF PRACTICE AND PERSISTENCE.
10. THINK OF 3 THINGS THAT YOU THINK WILL IMPROVE YIPL TECHNICALLY TELL ME THE NO. 1 IN YOU LIST
11. PROCESS MANAGEMENT ISSUE FLOW Kanban based Supports scrum Best of both GITFLOW Check VCS best practices Simplified Full BOTH ARE INTERRELATED.
12. SOFTWARE QUALITY QA TOOLS Follow by PHP-FIG - use , and PSR standard CS Fixer Security Checker Codacy.com AUTOMATED TESTING with check for reference PHPUnit Mockery Jumph Possibility of using Behat CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION ( ) CI or GitLab CI Shippable.com
13. SOFTWARE QUALITY LOGGING AND MONITORING Log activities with or GrayLog Logstash Monitor real-time with NewRelic COLLABORATION AND DOCUMENTATION Code Review Pair Programming Document Important Things
14. AUTOMATION VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT - Dev and Production Docker - generally dev Vagrant AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT Capistrano GENERAL AUTOMATION When you push to GitLab, a notification is triggered in a bot room in Hipchat When you push to GitLab, it automatilly pushes to Bitbucket and runs the build Hipchat is notified about deployment start and progress
15. FAST FORWARD TO 2015 Q1, WE HAVE CODE QUALITY CHECKS IN GIT PRE COMMIT HOOK
16. WE HAVE SOFTWARE ENGINEERS DOING PAIR PROGRAMMING
17. WE HAVE CODE REVIEWS ON MERGE REQUESTS
18. WE HAVE AUTOMATED CODE REVIEWS
19. WE HAVE A CI SERVICE TELLING OUR TEST BUILD PASSED OR FAILED AS WE HAVE TESTS
20. WE HAVE LOG MONITORING WITH GRAYLOG2 IN PLACE
21. WE HAVE LIVE APP MONITORING WITH NEWRELIC
22. RECAP We need processes to improve developer productivity It takes some time for following processes to become a habit. Reading and implementing best practices is one of the best practice. It's not only about the tools/technologies. It's also about how you use them. I am suggesting ideas that could help improve YIPL technically.
23. DO YOU WANT TO SEE MR. COO CONFUSED DUE TO CHAOS?
24. OR YOU WANT TO SEE HIM HAPPY DUE TO ORDER?
25. IT'S ABOUT YOU AND THE GROWTH YOU CHOOSE
26. QUESTIONS???
27. CREDITS http://science.raphael.poss.name/programming-levels/prog- skill-matrix.png/ http://www.openlawlab.com/2014/07/16/designers-mindsets sketchnote-design-process/ http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/wp- content/uploads/2014/08/EvolutionSysadmin_Infographic.pn https://www.flickr.com/photos/9844387@N06/3466813580 https://www.flickr.com/photos/emad17/8526107084/sizes/l http://ronaldbradford.com/images/blog/newrelic- summary1.png http://www.mgt-commerce.com/blog/wp- content/uploads/2012/08/magento_graylog_screen_1.png http://www.slideshare.net/ZeroTurnaround/developer- productivityreport2013graphics-26271695
28. SOME PROGRAMMING MANTRAS TO REMEMBER.