Backlog Zen

My talk from CTO Summit 2016 in San Francisco about how my team at Josephine reached Backlog Zen by keeping all the work in one place: GitHub.

Video: https://pbell.wistia.com/medias/xejb8oxtq8

Transcript

1. Backlog Zen A toolkit for increasing developer happiness, productivity, and collaboration. Tal Safran Josephine
5. Who are we? team of 12
6. Who are we? 4 nerds!
7. New tools we —
8. Zenhub
9. Heroku Review Apps
10. Github! spec > prioritize > estimate > code > review > qa > deploy One Tool To Rule Them All
11. Flying Solo
12. Text Text Brick by brick...
13. Lonely Coder!
14. Dynamic Duo! zeke!
15. Pull Requests Pull Requests for code, Pivotal Tracker for issue tracking.
16. Text Inline images!
17. Text Design Ideas
18. Checklists!
19. Commit History
20. Diffs!
21. Inline code comments
22. Text CI Integration
23. Text Still using Pivotal for acceptance...
24. Text Text Stories falling out of sync...
25. If only we could do everything in Github...
28. Zenhub
29. Draggable Cards
31. Point Estimations
32. Filter by Label
34. Dynamic Duo! bye zeke!
35. We doubled!
36. Text Text Better specs
37. Give developers everything they need
38. We're cranking!
39. Who's gonna QA all this stuff?
40. QAz For Dayz Let's get all these lovelies involved!
41. Heroku Review Apps Fresh outta beta
42. Automatic staging app for each pull request!
43. http://talsafran-pr-929.herokuapp.com http://talsafran-pr-849.herokuapp.com http://talsafran-pr-972.herokuapp.com
44. http://s.talsafran.com/929 http://s.talsafran.com/849 http://s.talsafran.com/972
45. Text
46. Happy Fam Happy Fam
47. Thanks @talsafran Tal Safran josephine.com