Agile-ish life at GitHub

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Matthew McCullough @matthewmccull

agile what?

agile organizations

agile teams

agile development

agile features?

waterfall…

! ! ‣ Plan ‣ Design ‣ Develop ‣ Deploy

is software ever done?

is software ever perfect?

is code ever perfect?

is code ever bug free?

four years of changes

32 colleagues 2 teams

13 leaders

13 managers?

deploy all the time

values creativity

– Arthur C. Clarke The difference between machines and human
beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.

Coordinate

! ! chaos? / agile

! ! flexibility / agile

! ! iterations / agile

! ! ‣ Sketch ‣ Prototype ‣ Review ‣ Refine

! ! README driven development

! ! Sketch…

! ! Prototype…

! ! HTML prototypes even for native apps

! ! Review…

! ! Refine…

! ! 130 commits

! ! 91 comments

! ! 45 deployments

! ! 10 contributors

! ! 8 weeks

”Probably  the most important technical book  of 2010” -Martin Fowler,
ThoughtWorks

Distributed VCS

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dwhittle dwillis DylanFM dyoder dysinger dziegler earl eastmedia E easy-designs ebi ebihara edas edais10 eddanger U.S. Users Japaneses Users U.K. Users German Users Other Users

! ! many clones

! ! many repos

! ! many contributors

Alice Bob Cory Dana Central Repo

Alice Bob Cory Dana Local Repo Local Repo Central Repo

! ! many forks

! ! many branches

topic branches master branch

! ! many merges

! ! hubot

git-flow

! ! simplest thing that works

! ! a long-lived release needs stability

! ! embedded code needs stability

! ! customized apps needs stability

! ! simplest thing that works

GitHub flow

pull request

! ! branch with identity

! ! branch with conversation

! ! branch with state

rebasing flow

testing demands

! ! quick builds

! ! quick tests

! ! quick deployments

feature flag

embrace smaller iterations

! ! focused ideas

! ! focused changes

! ! focused sketches

! ! focused prototypes

! ! focused deploys

– Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer “Remember,
always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”

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