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The Open Source Business Scott Chacon

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About Us

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Why business?

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Why are you here?

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learn new tools be more efficient get more done with less/easier

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Software

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Developer Focus

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SCRUM

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SCRUM?

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Test Driven Development

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Behavior Driven Development

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Developer Driven Development

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how does an open source team work?

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maintainer or small team of committers

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offline communication channels email list IRC

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occasional in-person meetings for big goals

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individuals choose what they want to work on still get bugs, unsexy things teams self assemble to solve larger problems

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could your company work this way?

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it is possible

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everyone chooses what they work on

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offline communication chat, email

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no roadmaps

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no feature backlog http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch05_Forget_Feature_Requests.php

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no daily in-person meetings

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make small decisions offline or in code

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people can work from anywhere, anytime, in any style

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teams self-form and shuffle as needed

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Developer Driven Development

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autonomy power / responsibility no meetings no feature requests / backlog no roadmap no vacations free beer

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pre-requisites

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own your product

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no deadlines

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passionate developers

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great communication chat email in-person drinking

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small teams

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or, gatekeepers

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best if the team can use the product

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advantages

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great productivity way less overhead everyone is always interested in what they are doing

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very agile

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more ideas

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dumb ideas are not worked on

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keep your devs more flexible always working on something they want more skin in the game better retention (recruiting is very expensive)

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Supporting Evidence

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Business Minimalism

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Open Source

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autonomy mastery purpose

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perils of extrinsic motivators

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why outsourcing is difficult

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take money off the table

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if you want engagement, self direction is better

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purpose motive is more powerful than the profit motive

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The Best Motivators

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Autonomy People want to have control over what they do

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Mastery People want to get better at what they do

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Purpose People want to be part of something that is bigger than they are

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autonomy mastery purpose

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Skunkworks

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ROWE

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Lockheed Martin (Advanced Development Programs) Best Buy (ROWE) Atlassian (FedEx Day) Google (20%) GitHub (100%)

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overview

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Developer Driven Development autonomy power/responsibility no meetings no feature backlog or roadmap free beer

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autonomy mastery purpose

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thanks!

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questions?

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resources github.com/schacon/ddd schacon.github.com/ddd schacon@gmail.com Drive, Daniel Pink - TED Talk