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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1. Collaborative

   Software Development
   in a social world
   Patterns for
   

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2. 2.
   Broadcast
   1.
   Act
   3.
   Condense
   4.
   Decide
   

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3. !v3.0
   

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5. @matthewmccull
   

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6. T
   

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7. 99th "
   

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8. 86th "
   

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9. passed the
   NYT "
   

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10. chasing
    Netflix "
    

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14. Assembler
    

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15. VB
    

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16. Java
    

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18. 1MB data != 1MB knowledge
    

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19. Enhance your software development

    with this one easy trick
    

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20. if (data) then (knowledge)
    collaboration
    

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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
    

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22. data++ != knowledge++
    

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23. data
    

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24. data
    

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25. data
    

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26. data
    

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28. create Business Value
    

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29. Problem !
    

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30. Solution?
    

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31. 1 + 1 = [ [ (9 × 3) / 3 ] / 3 ] – 1
    

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32. 2.
    Broadcast
    1.
    Act
    3.
    Condense
    4.
    Decide
    

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33. Tools
    "
    

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34. easy
    

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35. easy…
    

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36. easy…right?
    

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37. Humans
    #
    

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38. What’s the problem?
    

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39. I wanted to help make it easier
    sustainable software development is Hard
    

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42. What are the hardest things about
    software development, today?
    

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43. Projects frequently get stuck in
    the planning phase
    10. $
    

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44. Stakeholders want regular
    progress reports
    9. $
    

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45. Our devs want self-organizing,
    startup culture teams
    8. $
    

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46. I don’t know who to assign to
    architectural projects
    7. $
    

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47. We can’t easily find out who’s 

    a domain expert
    6. $
    

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48. We don’t know how to optimize 

    for continual learning
    5. $
    

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49. No one wants to do the repetitive
    data-processing tasks
    4. $
    

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50. We have a difficult time 

    attracting top talent
    3. $
    

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51. We struggle to to accurately
    estimate projects
    2. $
    

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52. The stream of project info is
    overwhelming us all
    1. $
    

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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
    

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54. let’s walk through the
    4 Steps
    

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55. 2.
    Broadcast
    1.
    Act
    3.
    Condense
    4.
    Decide
    

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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
    

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57. act Early
    %
    

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58. Post
    &
    

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60. “Inspiration Is for Amateurs
    The Rest of Us Just Show Up and Get to Work”
    –painter Chuck Close
    

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61. Commit
    &
    

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62. topic branches
    master branch
    

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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
    

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66. “Fail often to succeed sooner”
    –Tom Kelley, Ideo
    

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68. automate liberally
    %
    

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69. Automate!
    

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72. I’ve acted. Now what?
    

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73. 2.
    Broadcast
    1.
    Act
    3.
    Condense
    4.
    Decide
    

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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
    

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75. open everything
    %
    

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77. Help!
    

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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
    

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79. target broadcasts
    %
    

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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
    

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82. broadcast secrets
    %
    

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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
    

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86. work asynchronously
    %
    

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89. How do I make sense of it all?
    

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90. 2.
    Broadcast
    1.
    Act
    3.
    Condense
    4.
    Decide
    

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91. 3.5 billion docs '
    

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92. Performance Monitors
    Bug Reports
    Work Tickets
    Build Logs
    Change Logs
    Server Logs
    Audit Logs
    github
    CI Build Results
    Deploy Results
    Release Notes
    

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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
    

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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
    

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96. leverage computation
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97. unify information
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98. Dashboard
    (
    

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101. context matters
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107. where’s the Value?
     

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108. 2.
     Broadcast
     1.
     Act
     3.
     Condense
     4.
     Decide
     

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113. decide iteratively
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117. do we Have to Change?
     

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118. “Innovation is now recognized as

     the single most important ingredient

     in any modern economy.”
     –The Economist, Thanksgiving for innovation
     

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119. no
     

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120. “It is not necessary to change.
     Survival is not mandatory.”
     –W. Edwards Deming
     

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122. @matthewmccull
     

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