Patterns for Collaborative Software Development in a Social World at JavaOne 2015

Modern Java software development is an endeavor that requires creativity, science, math, artistry, communication, strategy, and collaboration with colleagues across the globe. The sheer combinatorics of those requirements can seem overwhelming at times. The solution, just as we've done with design patterns for the code and architecture, is the establishment and use of patterns for human and machine communication.

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Transcript

1. Collaborative
 Software Development in a social world Patterns for
2. 2. Broadcast 1. Act 3. Condense 4. Decide
3. !v3.0
5. @matthewmccull
6. T
7. 99th "
8. 86th "
9. passed the NYT "
10. chasing Netflix "
14. Assembler
15. VB
16. Java
18. 1MB data != 1MB knowledge
19. Enhance your software development
 with this one easy trick
20. if (data) then (knowledge) collaboration
21. Human Email Auto Responders Mailing Lists Spreadsheets Calendar Events Meeting Notes Proposal Documents Pitch Decks Customer Transactions Analytics Results Survey Results Tweets Performance Monitors Bug Reports Work Tickets Build Logs Change Logs Server Logs Audit Logs
22. data++ != knowledge++
23. data
24. data
25. data
26. data
28. create Business Value
29. Problem !
30. Solution?
31. 1 + 1 = [ [ (9 × 3) / 3 ] / 3 ] – 1
32. 2. Broadcast 1. Act 3. Condense 4. Decide
33. Tools "
34. easy
35. easy…
36. easy…right?
37. Humans #
38. What’s the problem?
39. I wanted to help make it easier sustainable software development is Hard
42. What are the hardest things about software development, today?
43. Projects frequently get stuck in the planning phase 10. $
44. Stakeholders want regular progress reports 9. $
45. Our devs want self-organizing, startup culture teams 8. $
46. I don’t know who to assign to architectural projects 7. $
47. We can’t easily find out who’s 
 a domain expert 6. $
48. We don’t know how to optimize 
 for continual learning 5. $
49. No one wants to do the repetitive data-processing tasks 4. $
50. We have a difficult time 
 attracting top talent 3. $
51. We struggle to to accurately estimate projects 2. $
52. The stream of project info is overwhelming us all 1. $
53. “Our job is to find a
 few intelligent things to do,
 not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.” –Charlie Munger, Partner at Bershire Hathaway
54. let’s walk through the 4 Steps
55. 2. Broadcast 1. Act 3. Condense 4. Decide
56. “It is not enough to just have a good idea.
 Only when you act, when you implement,
 do you truly innovate. –Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman: The Ten Faces of Innovation
57. act Early %
58. Post &
60. “Inspiration Is for Amateurs The Rest of Us Just Show Up and Get to Work” –painter Chuck Close
61. Commit &
62. topic branches master branch
65. “Many accounts… note a "missing hyphen" when a weak radio-guidance signal triggered the rare use of error-recovery software which
 lacked a hyphen in an equation, causing miscalculation or truncation of the remainder of the equation,
 which then pointed the rocket downward.” –Postmortem of Mariner I mission
66. “Fail often to succeed sooner” –Tom Kelley, Ideo
68. automate liberally %
69. Automate!
72. I’ve acted. Now what?
73. 2. Broadcast 1. Act 3. Condense 4. Decide
74. “…when the amount of information available to people increases much faster than our techniques for processing it, then we can get ourselves in a lot of trouble.” –Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise
75. open everything %
77. Help!
78. “most of your computer science career will be single data source, single CPU, single threaded processing. Don’t worry about chapter 7.” –my most incorrect university professor, ever
79. target broadcasts %
81. “Running a fundamentally different approach to decision-making, being much more transparent in the way a company communicates, and… having a CEO that is absolutely focused on innovation is something that any company can do.” –JONATHAN ROSENBERG, Former SVP of Products at Google
82. broadcast secrets %
85. “We… take the presentations that were given to the board of directors, and we show them to every employee in the company in order to promote communication. And we have a huge disclaimer about, it’s private information… We’ve never had a leak.” –Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
86. work asynchronously %
89. How do I make sense of it all?
90. 2. Broadcast 1. Act 3. Condense 4. Decide
91. 3.5 billion docs '
92. Performance Monitors Bug Reports Work Tickets Build Logs Change Logs Server Logs Audit Logs github CI Build Results Deploy Results Release Notes
93. “Humans are by nature, single-threaded processors. much of what I do every day is to evaluate which threads are noise and which are signal. unmanaged, my world moves towards 100% noise. ” –Jesse Newland, Ops at Github
94. Human Email Auto Responders Mailing Lists Spreadsheets Calendar Events Meeting Notes Proposal Documents Pitch Decks Customer Transactions Analytics Results Survey Results Tweets Performance Monitors Bug Reports Work Tickets Build Logs Change Logs Server Logs Audit Logs
96. leverage computation %
97. unify information %
98. Dashboard (
101. context matters %
107. where’s the Value?
108. 2. Broadcast 1. Act 3. Condense 4. Decide
113. decide iteratively %
117. do we Have to Change?
118. “Innovation is now recognized as
 the single most important ingredient
 in any modern economy.” –The Economist, Thanksgiving for innovation
119. no
120. “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” –W. Edwards Deming
122. @matthewmccull