Heroes of UnSilicon Valley

by Railsware

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Heroes of UnSilicon Valley [email protected] @sk_dn 1 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Magic Valley [email protected] 2 Saturday, October 22, 11

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IT-Industry Corporate Software Startups Open Source • Mostly B2B • Sales driven • Waterfall planning • Strong specifications • Boring :( • Mostly B2C • Benefit driven • Agile planning • Mutable requirements • Fun :) but risky! • Community oriented • Heart driven • Cowboy style development • Mutable requirements • A lot of fun :))) Profitable Nonprofitable 3 Saturday, October 22, 11

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First step I accept the fact of being RoR engineer and accept all the positives and negatives of this fact 5 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Engineer mind state Reactive Proactive (Supper Hero) 6 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Engineer Mode Reactive Proactive (Supper Hero) • Tell me beneﬁts you want to achieve, and I will create the solution • If requirements going to change, I understand the beneﬁts and do the change • Tell me what to do, I will do it • What? Are you going to change the requirements? Again? 7 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Startup path Product Owner’s expectation 8 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Startup path The Team 9 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Startup path Reactive mode 10 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Startup path Proactive mode 11 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Your choice... Changes a lot! 12 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Second step Choose Proactive Thinking! 13 Saturday, October 22, 11

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NO 14 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Hero 15 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Tools and Skills • Scoping • Development • Deployment • Engineering Support 16 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Third step Upgrade your tools and skills! 17 Saturday, October 22, 11

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• Scoping • Development • Deployment • Engineering Support Tools and Skills 18 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Full scope 19 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Product Owner vision 20 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Ordinary team vision 21 Saturday, October 22, 11

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The process 22 Saturday, October 22, 11

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The process 23 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Dream-team vision 24 Saturday, October 22, 11

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PT Succeed Landing Page CEU Tracker CEU Search Job Board Forum Blog 25 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Consumer real need 26 Saturday, October 22, 11

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www.plumdistrict.com • They had: - Mobile version in 3 weeks - Hundred stories - Almost zero progress in two weeks before dead line 27 Saturday, October 22, 11

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www.plumdistrict.com • They had: - Mobile version in 3 weeks - Hundred stories - Almost zero progress in two weeks before dead line • What we did: - Benefit driven interviews - Throw away "hundred stories" - Defined 4 main benefits and write down epic stories - Implemented one-by-one - Delivered in time main functionality 28 Saturday, October 22, 11

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• I want to see deal-page optimized for mobile • I want the checkout button • I want to add another credit card • I want to create new account Consumer real needs 29 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Email marketing brought good proﬁt! Customer was happy :) 30 Saturday, October 22, 11

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How to become Scoping Master? •Write everything down 31 Saturday, October 22, 11

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•Write everything down • Critical thinking - Each word can generate kazillion new requirements How to become Scoping Master? 32 Saturday, October 22, 11

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•Write everything down • Beneﬁt driven interviews - Learn McKinsey&Company interviews http://bit.ly/qu54eD - Read http://blog.railsware.com/ coming soon :) • Critical thinking - Each word can generate kazillion new requirements How to become Scoping Master? 33 Saturday, October 22, 11

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•Write everything down • Beneﬁt driven interviews - Learn McKinsey&Company interviews http://bit.ly/qu54eD - Read http://blog.railsware.com/ coming soon :) •Structurize all collected data • Critical thinking - Each word can generate kazillion new requirements How to become Scoping Master? 34 Saturday, October 22, 11

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•Write everything down •Structurize all collected data • User stories • Beneﬁt driven interviews - Learn McKinsey&Company interviews http://bit.ly/qu54eD - Read http://blog.railsware.com/ coming soon :) • Critical thinking - Each word can generate kazillion new requirements • Planing poker How to become Scoping Master? 35 Saturday, October 22, 11

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What is “Planing poker”? 36 Saturday, October 22, 11

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What is “McKinsey&Company”? Global Management Consulting ﬁrm with more than 85locations around the world 37 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Contract Recommendations • Time And Material schema preferable • Fixed-Price no longer than 1-2 month 38 Saturday, October 22, 11

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• Scoping • Development • Deployment • Engineering Support Tools and Skills 39 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Wait for lighting talks Our folks will share interesting experience 40 Saturday, October 22, 11

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• Scoping • Development • Deployment • Engineering Support Tools and Skills 41 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Deployment Categories • Small deployments (fixes, features, refactoring) • Middle and huge (features, refactoring) • Epic switch to the new platform 42 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Deployment Tools 43 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Capistrano Capistrano + Your eager to make deploy a single command action 44 Saturday, October 22, 11

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RW Monkey 45 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Calendar 46 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Deployment Plan 47 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Successful Plan 48 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Rollback Plan 49 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Example • Deploying production (Running migration) • Deploying ResqueWorker::AssetRecipientCollectionArchiver task to dot12.rp • Configuring god (create branch before start workers in common flow) • Test archiving for old campaign • Test restoring for same campaign • Deploying crontab • Configuring cron task which does upload archive of recipients for current day • Stop cron task and remove from config • Stop asset_email_recipient_collection_archive worker on dot12.rp • Cleanup :asset_recipient_collection_archive queue • Restore archived campaigns (it depends and should be manual) Deploy Plan Rollback Plan 50 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Deployment Tips&Tricks 51 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Hidden params 52 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Flag inside admin console 53 Saturday, October 22, 11

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VPN solution 54 Saturday, October 22, 11

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• Scoping • Development • Deployment • Engineering Support Tools and Skills 55 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Engineering support • Engineering support veeery important • Not boring if you solve problems in structural way • Act base on facts not assumptions • Monitor, measure, analyze • If you can ﬁnd and ﬁx problems you become the key person 56 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Find the disease... 57 Saturday, October 22, 11

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Find the disease... ...and heal it! 58 Saturday, October 22, 11

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www.bitmob.com • Initial: - 2 Product Owners from Silicon Valley - Where community mets the press - All was good until success came - Lot of users and site become to die 404, 503... - Invalid engineers and CTO. - Please help!!! • We agreed to help them: - It took 5 hours - Monitoring(NewRelic) + MySQL slow query logs - Have ﬁxed few indexes - Reduced passenger_max_pool_size - Session to the cookie instead of database 60 Saturday, October 22, 11

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www.bitmob.com 5 hours! 6 Fu..ing month VS 61 Saturday, October 22, 11

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www.bitmob.com Still works! Customer happy :) 62 Saturday, October 22, 11

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• Scoping • Development • Deployment • Engineering Support Summary • Accept startups rules • Proactive thinking Mind state: Tools and Skills: + 63 Saturday, October 22, 11

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If you want to be the Hero or you already are welcome to Railsware [email protected] 64 Saturday, October 22, 11

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