Developer Driven Development

This talk is about software development process at the team level. It is about how GitHub manages our software development team. Instead of a typical management or agile structure, we embrace several features of the Open Source development workflow, using a mix of autonomy, responsibility, no meetings, no backlog, no roadmap, no vacation day limits and free beer to keep our developers motivated and shipping.

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1. The Open Source Business
   Scott Chacon
   

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2. About Us
   

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7. Why business?
   

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8. Why are you here?
   

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

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10. Software
    

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11. Developer Focus
    

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12. SCRUM
    

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13. SCRUM?
    

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14. Test Driven Development
    

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15. Behavior Driven Development
    

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16. Developer Driven
    Development
    

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17. how does an open source team
    work?
    

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18. maintainer or small team of
    committers
    

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19. offline communication channels
    email list
    IRC
    

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20. occasional in-person meetings
    for big goals
    

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

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22. could your company work this
    way?
    

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23. it is possible
    

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24. everyone chooses what they
    work on
    

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25. offline communication
    chat, email
    

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26. no roadmaps
    

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

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28. no daily in-person meetings
    

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29. make small decisions offline or
    in code
    

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30. people can work from
    anywhere, anytime, in any style
    

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31. teams self-form and shuffle as
    needed
    

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32. Developer Driven
    Development
    

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

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34. pre-requisites
    

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35. own your product
    

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36. no deadlines
    

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37. passionate developers
    

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38. great communication
    chat
    email
    in-person
    drinking
    

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39. small teams
    

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40. or, gatekeepers
    

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41. best if the team can use the
    product
    

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42. advantages
    

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

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44. very agile
    

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45. more ideas
    

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46. dumb ideas are not worked on
    

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47. 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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48. Supporting Evidence
    

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50. Business Minimalism
    

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51. Open Source
    

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53. autonomy
    mastery
    purpose
    

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54. perils of extrinsic motivators
    

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55. why outsourcing is difficult
    

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56. take money off the table
    

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57. if you want engagement, self
    direction is better
    

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58. purpose motive is more
    powerful than the profit motive
    

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59. The Best Motivators
    

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60. Autonomy
    People want to have control over what they do
    

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61. Mastery
    People want to get better at what they do
    

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

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63. autonomy
    mastery
    purpose
    

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64. Skunkworks
    

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65. ROWE
    

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

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67. overview
    

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

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69. autonomy
    mastery
    purpose
    

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70. thanks!
    

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71. questions?
    

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

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