Changing mindsets: developer can understand the business too! @ Test Masters Series meetup

In the Domain-Driven Design world, everyone points to the ubiquitous language as paramount to the success of the project. However, often the developers fall under the pitfall of the technical jargon; the business assumes the developers have all the necessary business knowledge, given incomplete requirements; combining all these communication problems leads to frustration, missed opportunities and ultimately to project failure.

Given the miscommunications and misunderstandings between the development and the business, several questions arise: how can you learn to communicate and closely cooperate with the business, or even better be part of the same team? Also, how can you help the business to deliver a clear vision?

In this session, João will show you how to engage the development team and the business using DDD tools and techniques, using Behaviour Driven Development as the central piece to bring everyone closer. If you have a similar experience, or you want to emerge into DDD & BDD, the session is for you!

Transcript

1. Changing mindsets: developers can understand the business too!
2. João Rosa https://joaorosa.io | @joaoasrosa Software Quality Consultant @ Xebia
3. "MS-DOS installation diskettes" by Daan Berg is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
4. "Eggling growth" by Maria Keays is licensed under CC BY 2.0
5. "Universidade de Aveiro " by Paulo Corceiro is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0
6. "MBP Backlit Keyboard" by rhodesj is licensed under CC BY 2.0
7. "Animal Mailbox" by Kecko is licensed under CC BY 2.0
8. "Stack of blue paper" by Arria Belli is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
9. "SAP Meeting Room" by Vladislav Bezrukov is licensed under CC BY 2.0
10. "Man working at analog computer, 1968 color corrected" by Mike Grauer Jr is licensed under CC BY 2.0
11. "Ping Pong in Chaoyang Park" by Marshall Segal is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
12. “ Mmm, too young, too dumb to realize Hernandez Peter Gene, Lawrence Philip Martin II
14. “Burning” by Emilio Küffer is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
15. “Explosion” by Chad Horwedel is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
16. “ Carrots & Sticks are so last Century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery and purpose. Daniel H. Pink
17. “Light & Learning” by Shadow-or-Light is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
18. “Two-way communication” by Jacob Bøtter is licensed under CC BY 2.0
19. "network cables" by Pascal Charest is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
20. "Spiral Stairs" by Gabriela Fab is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0
21. "Ready to kick!" by Antonio Cinotti is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
23. ”Splash" by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
24. “ To communicate effectively, the code must be based on the same language used to write the requirements - the same language that the developers speak with each other and with domain experts. Eric Evans
26. From https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/12/08/example-mapping-introduction
30. ”Drift" by www.twin-loc.fr is licensed under CC BY 2.0
37. ”Pair programming" by Damien Pollet is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
39. We start mastering the techniques, and gain our autonomy!
40. “ But with great power comes great responsibility! Benjamin Parker
43. “ But Ialready know it! ”The” Important Business Person
45. ”Bins" by Russel McGovern is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
46. ü Do the first step, speak the same language ü Rename the code to use the same language ü Hack the Agile process, Ask “What if?” Be aware of ”Why?” ü Measure the “What if’s” ü Example Mapping as replacement of the “What if’s” ü Create Bounded Contexts ü Pair/Mob Programming ü Wall of Tech Debt ü Help the decision makers with roadmaps ü EventStorming as tool to facilitate the discussions Rinse and repeat!
47. “ Software development is a learning process, working code is a side effect. Alberto Brandolini
48. #CatTax