Optimizing for Efficiency: How Rails Helps Eliminate Development Waste

Software development is often slowed down by hidden waste; things like tech debt, team dependencies and poor communication. In this talk, we’ll explore how to spot these inefficiencies and Rails framework helps to eliminate those waste and boost efficiency of development team

In this talk, we’ll explore the common sources of waste in software development, and how they impact project timelines and costs. We’ll discuss practical strategies for minimizing waste, improving team productivity, and delivering high-quality software more efficiently and effectively with Ruby on Rails framework.

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1. Eliminate Development Waste Rails How Optimizing for Efficiency
2. Welcome
3. THROWBACK
4. THROWBACK
5. A Big Thank You 👏
6. Ganesh Kunwar
7. NEPAL
10. Story Behind This Talk
11. 2019/20/21
12. What Happens in Software Development Team?
13. Project Kick-Off
14. F/E DEV React, Vue, Nextjs, or Angular? Should I use TypeScript or plain JavaScript? How to structure the project? Feature- based, component- based, or by domain? Should I mock APIs or wait for the backend team?
15. B/E DEV Should we use Node.js, Go, Python, or something more scalable like Java or Elixir? REST is simple, GraphQL is flexible, gRPC is fast—what suits the product best? Should I wait for the frontend to finalize requirements or start building based on assumptions?
16. Development
17. Is Design Ready? BISHAL (F/E DEV) Let me check; SANTOSH (DESIGNER) Is API Ready? HIRA (B/E DEV) Give me 2 Hours.
18. PR Review
19. HARI (B/E DEV) Hi, Could you please review my PR?
20. B/E DEV Hi, Could you please review my PR? I’m having lunch, Give me 10 Minutes. ANOTHER B/E DEVELOPER
21. Onboard New Member to Project
22. NEW DEV
23. What’s the best way to run this locally? I’m getting a bunch of errors. New Member What is the issue? Sr. Developer connection to server on socket "/ tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: database “ganesh12" does not exist Give me 10 minutes, I will check.
24. Deployment Day
25. RITESH (PM) Hey, Are features ABC, XYZ ready for release? There are 3 small bugs, I just reported. BIMAL (QA)
26. RITESH (PM) Hey, did you get confirmation from client? NIHAL (BIZ DEV) Sorry Man! I’m still waiting for client. NIHAL (BIZ DEV) Hey John, Is there any update for me? JOHN (CLIENT) Hi Nihal, Give me few more days. Thanks BISHAL (F/E DEV) SANTOSH (PD) Is API Ready? HIRA (B/E DEV) Give me 10 Minutes. One parameter is still missing in API! Is Design Ready? Client is Reviewing it. HARI (B/E DEV) Hi, Could you please review my PR? I’m having lunch, Give me 10 Minutes. RITESH (PM) Hi Bimal, Are features ABC, XYZ ready for release? There are 3 small bugs, I just reported. BIMAL (QA)
27. To handle this situation …
28. Unnecessary Meetings Its better to add QA list in Kanban board. Design column list as well. Lets create Review List to list all items. Ad-Hoc Problem Solving Meeting
29. Its better to add QA list Design column list Lets create Review List Ad-Hoc Problem Solving Meeting Hey, Mr Ritesh Let’s use Client Meeting Lets Try, ClickUp Lets use GitHub Action Dev Team Meeting 20% Sprint Meeting Unnecessary Meetings
30. Hey, just checkin what’s the main Agenda of this meeting today? Who is taking notes? We’re 30 minutes over—should I join my next meeting? We’ve covered a few agendas already— should we wrap up or continue to the next one? Most of the meeting
31. Let’s Talk About Waste
32. Lets talk about waste are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste
33. Waste Waste is something which consumes unexpected: - Time - Cost - Resources in Software Development Complex Process Waiting Meeting Poor Planning
34. And then there is more…
35. Poor Work Quality
36. Rails Approach to Reduce Waste
37. - Monolith Architecture, All-in one stack, no Need for separate Frontend & Backend - Action Cable: Built in webSocket Support for Real-time Features - Inbuilt Testing Framework: No separate framework/libraries needed for automation - Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus: Less JavaScript, More Speed - Rich Ecosystem of Ruby Gems - Easy to learn: Beginner friendly, Developer-productive - Kamal: Makes DevOps feel simple—even for small teams. What Rails Offer Us?
38. One Person Framework
39. One Important Question
40. and the One Important Question is… How can a single person handle all of this?
41. Answer Is Simple: Vibe Coding
42. AI Assisted Coding
43. 3 Person Team
44. My 3 Person Team
45. } No More Dilemma for framework selection Any Developer can review anyones codebase Reduced Team Waiting Time No more meeting needed for anything Codebase is readable, anyone can pick any project
46. No More Dilemma for framework selection Any Developer can review anyones codebase Reduced Waiting Time Codebase is readable, anyone can pick any project No more meeting needed for anything }Reduced New Dev Onboarding Time }
47. No more meeting needed for anything Reduced Meeting Time } No More Dilemma for framework selection Any Developer can review anyones codebase Reduced Waiting Time } Codebase is readable, anyone can pick any project } Reduced New Dev Onboarding Time
48. No more meeting needed for anything Reduced Meeting Time Reduced Waste } } No More Dilemma for framework selection Any Developer can review anyones codebase Reduced Waiting Time } Codebase is readable, anyone can pick any project } Reduced New Dev Onboarding Time
49. We Rails Developer Are Human
50. We Do Mistake as well: - Miss to Follow Best Practices - Fail to Update README.md and other documents - Overusing Scaffolding Without Cleanup - Messy, Unstructured Code ("Vibe Code") Pollutes the Product. - Inconsistent Code Style - Not Updating or Locking Gem Versions - Neglecting Test-Driven Development (TDD) Due to Laziness.
51. - You can not eliminate 100% waste; You can reduce waste. - Waste in software development are not visible, You have to open your third eye to see those waste. - Feeling like your software process is getting out of hand? Start by identifying and eliminating waste. - Automate whenever possible - Keeping the Waste in mind, explore technology/frameworks and help to improve them Final Thoughts
52. About Me - Ganesh Kunwar - Co-founder & Director of Project Delivery - Maintainer #BuiltWithRuby - 13+ experience in building Software Product & Product Teams - Ruby Nepal Community Member - Agile Nepal Community Member - Atlassian Nepal Community Member
53. #BuiltWithRuby
54. Thank You 🙏