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Rails is not for beginners
What can we do about it?
Avi Tzurel
Kenso
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Owner - Kenso ݆ૉ
Ruby & Rails advisor - Tikal
~3 years of Ruby & Rails experience
~300 in the world in rails commit #
http://kensodev.com
http://twitter.com/kensodev
http://github.com/kensodev
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Current status: Explosion
• Demand for Ruby/Rails developers was never higher
• 50%> startups choose Ruby/Rails for their product
• BIG on open source
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CANT
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FIND
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DEVELOPERS
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Holding it wrong!
Recruiting is completely broken
Not enough knowledge to “manage”
developers
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ARGH!!!!
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OR... a proper response
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Not a nasty response, a proper
response
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There’s a much better way
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Proven to work
(Working like that for 18 months)
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“... We encourage improvement
and for people to live up to the
state-of-art... “
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HOW?
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4-5 apprentices
Craftsman / Journeyman
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TDD
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Teaching Driven Development
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FDD
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Feedback Driven Deployment
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Pair program 20% of the time
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Best Practice from the get go
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Problems are solved during 1-1
mentoring process
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime.
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Peer code review for all code
going into production
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NಠಠB on boarding!
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Dojo
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Yes sensey!
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Work on production code right
away!
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Recorded 1-1 sessions or Dojo’s
for generations to come
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No question is too stupid!
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Production will fall
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Open source EVERYTHING!
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Share the knowledge
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Show me theTools
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Use tools to make your job easier
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Github
• Code hosting
• Inline code commenting
• Email replies
• Pull requests
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Pivotal Tracker
• Sprint planning
• Commit hooks as comment to stories
• Open source git_tracker
• feature/some_feature_#2323234
• Will post commits into the story as comments
• Can Finish/Deliver/Start the story with commits
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Time Tracking
• Track time on all tasks
• Check bottlenecks at the end of each sprint
• Cross reference time with commits + stories
• Beautiful clear reports at the end of sprint/month
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Summing up
• Homogeneous team
• Craftsman / Journeyman + 4-5 developers
• Mentoring / Teaching driven
• Pair programming
• Full transparency of the work process
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Bonus!
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Giving back
Hosting a monthly meetup
Recorded as a screencast
Building a real-life product from scratch
http://he.kensodev.com
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Questions?