Speaking of Spikes Spoken by Sophie

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1. SPEAKING OF SPIKES SPOKEN BY SOPHIE CONFOO VANCOUVER 2017
2. @SOPHIEDEZIEL
4. ESTIMATES
7. HAVE REALISTIC ESTIMATES
8. HAVE REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
9. PLANNING
10. AGILE™
12. YUL ✈ YVR MONTREAL VANCOUVER
15. SPIKES
16. SPIKES ON STEROIDS
17. 1. QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED
18. 2. TIME BOUND
19. 3. DOCUMENTED
20. 4. FITS PERFECTLY IN YOUR METHODOLOGY
21. COLLABORATION
22. COLLABERRATION
23. DEFINITION OF “DONE”
24. DONE != SUCCESS
25. SUCCESS MEANS THAT WE CAN MAKE A DECISION BASED ON THE NEW KNOWLEDGE
26. ANSWER: NO. Our servers resources are underused right now (insert graph here). A CDN would be additional infrastructure costs and development is needed. It will be worth it when we reach ~X RPM based on current load time Should we use a CDN to save money? Successful spike
27. ANSWER: CAN’T TELL YET Todos: 1. Foo 2. Bar 3. Baz Ran out of time in finding a Twilio-like telephone service to provision local phone numbers. We don’t know if it even exists. How can we support a new market in another country successful spike
28. BLOCKED Their API is still in design’s stage and documentation is not out yet. It is too soon to tell. What are the steps to be on our strategic partner’s marketplace Blocked spike
29. DOCUMENTATION
30. ABUSE YOUR TOOLS
31. MAKE IT EASY TO WRITE
32. MAKE IT EASY TO READ
33. We’ll do a 3 weeks spike to see if replacing PHP on Rails with Node.net is worth it. Developer NOT A SPIKE
34. @SOPHIEDEZIEL THANK YOU