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THE ART OF THE
PULL REQUEST
ACHIEVING ASYNCHRONOUS
COLLABORATION SUCCESS
PAUL ADAMS
23-04-2018
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Is Your Team A Community?
What Is A PR, Really?
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Solid PR Templating
THE ART OF THE PULL
REQUEST
“Tug of War” by toffehoff (https://flic.kr/p/nD2nk)
No Time Like The Present!
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IS YOUR TEAM A COMMUNITY?
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ZALANDO AT A GLANCE
as at March 2018
~ 4.5
billion EUR
revenue 2017
> 200
million
visits
per
month
> 15,000
employees in
Europe
> 70%
of visits via
mobile devices
> 23
million
active customers
> 300,000
product choices
~ 2,000
brands
15
countries
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WE ARE CONSTANTLY INNOVATING TECHNOLOGY
HOME-BREWED,
CUTTING-EDGE
& SCALABLE
technology solutions
~ 2,000
employees from
tech locations
(HQs in Berlin)
7
77
nations
help our brand to
WIN ONLINE
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THE PILLARS OF RADICAL AGILITY
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WHAT IS A PR, REALLY?
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LOOK WHAT I DID!
In GitHub’s own words: “Pull requests let you tell
others about changes you've pushed to a GitHub
repository.”
- After the fact
- “Let” is weak
- “others”?
“Acupuncture” by Petras Gagllas (https://flic.kr/p/iJoBE8)
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HOW ABOUT THIS DESCRIPTION?
“AN ASYNCHRONOUS FORM OF COMMUNICATION DESIGNED TO COLLECT ALL
INFORMATION RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SPECIFIC FEATURE”
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY
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THE “ERR… I GUESS I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED HERE” PR
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THE “NOT TOO BAD AT ALL” PR
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SOLID PR TEMPLATING
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OK, SO WHAT COULD A PR LOOK LIKE?
• Related Issue
• Motivation
• Description
• Type Of Change
• Sanitary Considerations
“Fabric Design” by yaskil (https://flic.kr/p/cib95w)
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NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT!
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A SCRUM-BASED EXAMPLE
“Scrum” by Charlie (https://flic.kr/p/gB9tsA)
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PRs IN SCRUM CEREMONIES
“postits” by Peer 2 Peer University (https://flic.kr/p/bt51RX)
Ceremony Description
Daily Scrum Probably no role here.
Planning 1 Open PR.
Planning 2 Complete the PR template.
Review Merge the PR.
Retro Perhaps process/template review.
Backlog
Refinement
Probably no role here.
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ICYMI
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• Mastery, Purpose and Autonomy Need Alignment to Succeed
• Conway’s Law dictates asynchronous
• Documentation, folks!
• Document the feature in PRs
• For now
• Forever
THIS IS THE END
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PAUL ADAMS
[email protected]
@therealpadams
baggerspion.net
23-04-2018
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