What Private Teams Can Learn from Open Source

Private teams that want to reduce bugs in their code and increase their talent pool should look more like open source teams. Distribute your communication and have an automatic code review process.

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1. what private teams can
   learn from open source
   Mark Simoneau
   @marksim
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2. what to adopt
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3. why
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4. how
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5. we love open source
   philosophy
   freedom
   price
   using
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6. but beyond that
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7. open source provides a
   model for private
   development
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8. what if this model
   could...
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9. reduce bugs in
   production
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10. better talent pool
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11. how many private
    teams want to
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12. reduce bugs in
    production
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13. have better talent pool
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14. everybody?
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15. Thursday, April 26, 12
    

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16. reducing bugs
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17. best way?
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18. hour for hour, no other
    developer method
    reduces more bugs in
    production
    see “Code Complete” by Steve McConnell
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19. code reviews
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20. how do private teams
    do it?
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21. how does open source
    do it?
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22. pull requests
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23. • fork (free!)
    • submit pull request
    • let the team review
    • merge
    easy to set this up
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24. • more complicated process
    • slower than git push
    • more knowledge of git required
    disadvantages
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25. advantages
    • all code gets reviewed
    • everyone sees coding styles
    • everyone sees problem solutions
    • everyone gets input
    • git history cleanliness is reviewed
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27. better talent pool
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28. talent from anywhere?
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29. open source:
    distributed from the
    start
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30. communication done in
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31. mailing lists
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32. chats
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33. bug tickets
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34. distributed
    communication =
    distributed team
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35. what if your private
    team simply acted
    distributed?
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36. easy to do
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37. hipchat / campfire / irc
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38. mailing list / message
    board
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39. internal blog
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40. google hangout / skype
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41. disadvantages
    • more discipline
    • more intentionality
    • could reduce personal interaction (not
    what we found)
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42. advantages
    • all communication logged
    • everyone can participate from anywhere
    • everyone can review or catch up
    • anyone can be added to the team from
    anywhere
    • bonus: reduced distraction
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44. challenge
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45. make your private team
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46. distributed
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47. code reviewers
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48. boost communication
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49. reduce bugs
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50. hire from anywhere
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51. @marksim
    blog.quarternotecoda.com
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