Ahmad Nassri
Advocate of all things open-source. Founder at Tech Masters, Mentor at Node School Toronto, Director at Full Stack Toronto, Director at Open API Initiative, Editor at The RESTful Web.
Open Development Methodology
Open Development Methodology
lessons learned from leading global development teams throug Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall
#OpenDevelopmentMethod
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Ahmad Nassri
Entrepreneur, Hacker, Developer
Open Source Advocate & Dog Lover
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Work with amazing companies
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Projects, Code & Community
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Software development
Project Management, PRODUCT Management, Client Demands, DESIGN, Quality Assurance, Feature Creep, Testing, User Experience, Architecture, Tools, Deadlines
Waterfall
Scrum
AGILE
EXTREME
LEAN
TDD
BDD
Waterfall
Scrum
AGILE
EXTREME
LEAN
TDD
BDD
Scrum
AGILE
EXTREME
LEAN
TDD
BDD
GET
SHIT
DONE.
API Tools & Marketplace
GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED TEAM
Clients with High expectations
7 Cities
8 Languages
8 Nationalities
6 Time Zones
GET
SHIT
DONE.
Thousands: Cities, Languages, Nationalities, Time Zones
Open Source Community
The tenets of the open development method
- Quality: slay the technical debt monster
- Documentation: documentation, documentation, documentation!
- Test: successful tests speak louder than features
- Discuss: everything is a discussion & everyone has a say
- Transparency: everybody can see (business, design, engineering)
- Asynchronicity: (no meetings, no direct answers)
- Democracy: everybody decides, together.
Quality
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
―
Martin Golding,
Code For The Maintainer
Documentation
“Documentation is like candy: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing..”
Test Everything
“More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. The thinking that must be done to create a useful test can discover and eliminate bugs before they are coded – indeed, test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest.”
―
Boris Beizer,
Discuss Openly
“Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't.
Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.”
― Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Transparency
“Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.”
― John Gerzema
Life is asynchronous
You can sync machines, but you can't sync humans!
― me
Democracy
Still Evolving
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SHIT
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Open Development Methodology @ #fstoconf15
By Ahmad Nassri
Open Development Methodology @ #fstoconf15
The Open Source Natural Workflow as a Software Development Methodology. Presented at Full Stack Toronto 2015
