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Minimum Viable Development Get stuff done, ship on time, and stop fussing with analysis paralysis @donnfelker
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Donn Felker » Fragmented Podcast w/ Kaushik Gopal » Teaching #AndroidDev Caster.IO » #AndroidDev Digest (androiddevdigest.com) » AndroidJobs.IO » 4x Android Author » Consultant / Intl. Speaker
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How this talk is organized 1. Soft Skills 2. Tactics
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Paradigm Shift The majority of getting things done is mental
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Minimum Viable Development
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Using the minimum amount of effort & time to accomplish a development task to move the business forward.
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Isn't that what we all do anyway?
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Perfectionism and maybe a little bit of FOMO
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Perfectionism Example The Insurance company
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Analysis Paralysis
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#AndroidDev Examples
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Should I use Fragments or custom views or something like Flow and Mortar?
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Should I re-write my entire app to use RX?
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Should I use this new MVP FRAMEWORK?
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how do you keep analysis paralysis at arms length?
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Before you make any new dev decision, ask yourself this -
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Is this going to enable me to ship faster?
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Does this enable the code to be maintainable?
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But ... is shipping faster really the only goal?
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An early stage startup with a short runway needs to prove a market faster than an established Fortune 500 company.
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The type of business determines how you should develop
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Think like a business owner
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Everything is an Experiment
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Ok, Stop. Story Time
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Everything is an Experiment
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Let go of the emotional attachment to code. The code is not your identity
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"But, my Code is art, man..."
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Your code is art. But its art that's sold to someone else. Once it's done, let got of it.
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Tactics to Ship On Time
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Timeboxing
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Example: A new, difficult, uncharted task - Give it 30 minutes to see how far you can get. Or 1 hour. Maybe 2. Then re-evaluate.
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Location Oriented Development
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Meetings are no longer than 15 minutes
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Place all meetings at end or beginning of work day. Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule - Paul Graham
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Get Creative Think outside of the box
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An Example
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Use what works. Use what you know.
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Android Libs that Help me move faster
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Dagger Butterknife RxJava Retrofit Timber Realm
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So, Should you use Retrolambda, RxJava, MVP and Flow and Mortar?
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It Depends. Just ask yourself ...
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Does it enable me to ship faster with maintainable code?
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Thank You