OPEN DEVELOPMENT OPEN DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY METHODOLOGY 

OPEN DEVELOPMENT OPEN DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY METHODOLOGY LESSONS LEARNED FROM LEADING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT LESSONS LEARNED FROM LEADING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT TEAMS THROUG AGILE, SCRUM, AND WATERFALL TEAMS THROUG AGILE, SCRUM, AND WATERFALL #OpenDevelopmentMethod OpenDevelopmentMethod.org 

AHMAD NASSRI AHMAD NASSRI ENTREPRENEUR, HACKER, DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR, HACKER, DEVELOPER OPEN SOURCE ADVOCATE & DOG LOVER OPEN SOURCE ADVOCATE & DOG LOVER @AhmadNassri http://ahmad.codes ADVISOR ADVISOR WORK WITH AMAZING COMPANIES WORK WITH AMAZING COMPANIES 

I DO STUFF I DO STUFF PROJECTS, CODE & COMMUNITY PROJECTS, CODE & COMMUNITY 

Ruby "The Lion" Dog DOGS DOGS ARE ARE AWESOME! AWESOME! 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, CLIENT DEMANDS, DESIGN, QUALITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, CLIENT DEMANDS, DESIGN, QUALITY ASSURANCE, FEATURE CREEP, TESTING, USER EXPERIENCE, ARCHITECTURE, TOOLS, DEADLINES ASSURANCE, FEATURE CREEP, TESTING, USER EXPERIENCE, ARCHITECTURE, TOOLS, DEADLINES 

WATERFALL WATERFALL SCRUM SCRUM AGILE AGILE EXTREME EXTREME LEAN LEAN TDD TDD BDD BDD 

WATERFALL WATERFALL SCRUM SCRUM AGILE AGILE EXTREME EXTREME LEAN LEAN TDD TDD BDD BDD 

GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. . 

API Tools & Marketplace 

GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED TEAM GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED TEAM 

CLIENTS WITH HIGH EXPECTATIONS CLIENTS WITH HIGH EXPECTATIONS 

7 7 CITIES CITIES 8 8 LANGUAGES LANGUAGES 8 8 NATIONALITIES NATIONALITIES 6 6 TIME ZONES TIME ZONES 

GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. . 

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY Thousands: Cities, Languages, Nationalities, Time Zones 

THE TENETS OF THE OPEN THE TENETS OF THE OPEN DEVELOPMENT METHOD DEVELOPMENT METHOD 1. Quality: slay the technical debt monster 2. Documentation: documentation, documentation, documentation! 3. Test: successful tests speak louder than features 4. Discuss: everything is a discussion & everyone has a say 5. Transparency: everybody can see (business, design, engineering) 6. Asynchronicity: (no meetings, no direct answers) 7. Democracy: everybody decides, together. 

QUALITY QUALITY “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” ― Martin Golding, Code For The Maintainer 

DOCUMENTATION DOCUMENTATION “Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing..” ― Dick Brandon, 

TEST EVERYTHING TEST EVERYTHING “More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. The thinking that must be done to create a useful test can discover and eliminate bugs before they are coded – indeed, test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest.” ― Boris Beizer, 

DISCUSS OPENLY DISCUSS OPENLY “Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.” ― Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite 

TRANSPARENCY TRANSPARENCY “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.” ― John Gerzema 

LIFE IS ASYNCHRONOUS LIFE IS ASYNCHRONOUS You can sync machines, but you can't sync humans! ― me 

DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY 

STILL EVOLVING STILL EVOLVING 

GET GET SHIT SHIT DONE DONE. . 

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