DEVELOPING IN PUBLIC

STORY TIME

▸ navigation team couldn't drive▸ system engineering checks were weak▸ informal communication channels

some communications channels among project engineering groups were too informal

too informal

NOT A SOFTWARE PROBLEM?

A HUMAN PROBLEM

HOW CAN WE DO BETTER?

SOFTWARE ARCHAEOLOGY

commit 9e3ce0965868f1e9af385951cf1e22960d0edf0dAuthor: Kevin Sawicki & Nathan Sobo <kevin+nathan@github.com>Date: Wed May 21 18:04:44 2014 -0600

Add thruster input

We need to take the thrust input from the propulsion bus and fire the thrusters accordingly

OK, maybe we've mostly solved this for code.

▸ Use version control▸ write good commit messages▸ use feature branches▸ the list goes on...

I GUESS MY TALK CAN BE OVER?

/NOPE

HERE'S A CLICHÉ

It's better to work together than to work alone

What if “together” is miles and hours apart?

What did she do yesterday?

What did I do yesterday?"

SOFTWARE!=

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

SOFTWARE⊆

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

[********] Coding [***] Communicating / coordinating [**] Reviewing code / PRs to merge [**] Runtime / CI / infrastructure [*] Long term project planning

SO

WHAT'S THE WORK?

(Here come some dirty words)

MANAGEMENT

POLITICS

Other people are your allies, in other words, but that alliance takes sustained effort to build. And you should

be prepared for that, not irritated by it.

Ed Catmull

DOCUMENTATION

TRANSCRIPTION

STARING OFF INTO SPACE DESIGN

Oh, and just one more thing...

CODING

SOME TOOLS

WIP PRS

ALWAYS BE PAIRING

CHATOPS

/ci status <repo>/<branch>/deploy team to stg

/graph me -10min @app-perf (or something)/procs unicorn/resque critical

/conns fe1/who's on call

WHY IS THIS STUPID CHAT BOT SO IMPORTANT?

What if we don't have a Hubot?

A SELF-REPORTING CULTURE

EMBRACE GOOD TOOLS

YOUR TOOLS=

YOUR OFFICE

BE PREDICTABLE

prefer communication

DON'T BLOCK

TELL ME WHY

TRULY PRODUCTIVE REMOTE WORK

FAST ONBOARDING

TRANSPARENT STRATEGIES

&#REALTALK

NO ONE GETS LOST

DEVELOP IN PUBLIC BECAUSE..

▸ it enables remote work▸ gets new people started fast

▸ teaches your teammates how your brain works▸ Exposes failure early enough to fix it

Daniel HengeveldSoftwaresman, GitHub

@thedanielthedaniel.github.io