Watch Dan Chuparkoff as he shares some of the secrets to kick-ass software development at Atlassian. He gives us a glimpse at a new Agile paradigm. Feedback cycles are short, code quality is awesome, and customers get the features they lust after. Hear how Atlassian uses pull-requests for better code quality; collaborates fast to develop ideas; avoids meetings; tightens feedback loops to fail fast; shortens release cycles and work together happily from different corners of the globe. Sound like paradise? It is!

1. Kick-ass
Agile Development
Dan Chuparkoff
#kickassSD - @chuparkoff - #AAB14

2. #kickassSD #AAB14
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3. Who knows what does?

4. Software for collaborating teams
PLAN & TRACKCOMMUNICATE CODE

5. Who expects to learn a new
methodology?

6. There is no kick-ass manifesto!
“There is no kickass manifesto!,” @chuparkoff #kickassSD at #AAB14

7. Who just wants to kick ass?

8. Yes, that’s really me ;)
This is
your talk

9. Ok, so how do you do
kick-ass development

10. Use Java

11. Use Java
…the language is not so important

12. Dan Chuparkoff
Group Manager, JIRA Family
Learning to do #kickassSD with @chuparkoff from @atlassian at #AAB14

13. What is kick-ass software anyway?

14. better quality
happy developers
less overhead
happy customers
faster development
Agile

15. Agile2013 ?
What's the state of

17. We are uncovering better the only ways of developing
software by doing it and helping teaching others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over and not processes and tools
Working software over and not comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over and not contract negotiation
Responding to change over and not following a plan
That is, while since there is no value in the items
on the right, we value only the items on the left more.
The Dark Manifesto of Agile Software
Development

18. Agile
is
dead?
“Is Agile dead?,” asks @chuparkoff #kickassSD at #AAB14

19. Technology adoption lifecycle
Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards

20. Agile 2001
Early Adopters

21. Agile 2005
Early Adopters Early Majority

22. Agile 2009
Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority

23. Agile Today?
Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards

24. Actually…Agile 2013
Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards

25. smart people!
Guru
We need some

26. find your own problems
& just kick-ass
Don’t wait for gurus
“No one can tell you what your team isn’t doing right, except your team” @chuparkoff #kickassSD

27. Kick-ass automation
Build kick-ass things
Create one kick-ass team
Kick-ass collaboration
Four keys to
Kick-ass
Agile Development

28. Build
kick-ass things

29. Fake it
til you
Make it
“Fake it, ’til you make it.” @chuparkoff #kickassSD at #AAB14

30. Speech-to-text experiment

31. even one step before that....
Paper
Prototypes

33. SoftwareConstruction Area - Improving Software

34. Feedback
Generate a kick-ass
experience

35. Make it simple
Easy to find
Fast to submit

36. GOT FEEDBACK?

37. GOT FEEDBACK?

38. GOT FEEDBACK?
Got Feedback?
Submit Cancel
What do you like? * Good tools, but this talk doesn't kick ass at all!
What needs to be
improved?*
Add more jokes!
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Email
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39. GOT FEEDBACK?
Got Feedback?
Submit Cancel
What do you like? * Good tools, but this talk doesn't kick ass at all!
What needs to be
improved?*
Add more jokes!
Name
BrowseUpload a screenshot
Email
Freddy Eedback
f.eedback@complain.com
Rate the page * Awesome HorribleGood Meh! Bad
Make it simple
Easy to find
Fast to submit
“Giving feedback must be simple & fast.” @chuparkoff #kickassSD at #AAB14

40. Protect
your developers

41. And keep ‘em protected
gmail: 100 developers
gmail: 425 million users

42. But we're not building

43. Everyone
On The
Front Lines

44. Close the loop
Feedback
and get pers nal

45. Developers
on
Support

46. Actually, build kick-ass things.
Create an effective feedback loop.
Connnect with your customers!
Keep improving!
“Create an effective feedback loop.” @chuparkoff #kickassSD at #AAB14

47. Kick-ass automation
Build kick-ass things
Create one kick-ass team
Kick-ass collaboration
Four keys to
Kick-ass
Agile Development

48. Kick-ass Team
One

49. Developer
DifferentRoles
Responsibilities
Tester

50. Developer Tester
The Problems
Bottlenecks : Accountability : Scalability

51. DoT
Developer
on
Test

52. Development
61x
4x
QA

53. So the developers are
doing all the work?

54. Qual·i·ty As·sis·tance [kwol-i-tee] [uh-sis-tuhns]
Quality is everyone's responsibility. QA employees help and train developers to become
better testers. They test the more complicated stuff, create test data, investigate new
test tools, & develop test strategies.
QA

55. 6 Tipsfor kick-ass DoTing

56. Training

57. Pairing

58. Blitz test

59. Test recipe*
* advanced doting

60. Split Sessions*
* advanced doting

61. Bug Hunter*
* advanced doting

62. Quality
is everybody's responsibility

63. Design
Developers
are doing

64. Because we suck!
should we have designers?
Why

65. Designers?Scaling
Designer Designer ? ?

66. Designer Designer Developer Developer
Developers FTW!Use
Designers?Scaling

67. Our developers need some
Design guidance!

69. Design guidelines
Tools to test designJust a few controls
Simple rules
https://developer.atlassian.com/design/
Dev speed
Kick-ass

70. Design workshopfor developers

71. DevelopersDesigners
removing friction

72. Designers
Developers
areare
Designer in code

73. Department barriers slow you down!
Work together as one team!
Keep improving!

74. Kick-ass Automation
Build Kick-ass Things
One Kick-ass Team
Kick-ass Collaboration
Four keys to
Kick-ass
Agile Development

75. collaboration
Kick-ass

76. Lonesome cowboy coder

77. The trouble starts
with the team

80. Traffic rules
are protecting us from accidents

81. Development rules
are protecting us from mistakes

83. PULLBRANCH MERGE

84. A branch
for every task

85. Get
Coding!
Story
assigned

86. Caption

87. Branches
have short lives
average 2 days

88. we use
Pull Requests
what do you
think?

89. fast approvals
moving fast
2+

90. Collocated
Teams
we prefer

91. It's not always
possible
the truth is

92. Where
do you work best?
...in the office?
...in the coffee bar next door?
...on your couch at home?
it depends

93. do you communicate
How
effectively?

94. Email

95. Are you
crazy?

96. too many

97. Email
often too long
are bad for conversations
lots of spam
needs an action
Problems

98. Email
often too long
are bad for conversations
lots of spam
needs an action
Problems

99. Where work becomes teamwork

100. ChatWho uses ?

102. Chat Rooms
Confluence
Developer
Design Team
Enterprise
Discussions
Beer Drinkers
Just the conversations you need to kick ass

103. Chat is great for remote conversations
...and local!
People can stay in the zone

104. Chat is great for different timezones
HipChat records all conversations that happened during the night

105. Chat can pull people into the conversation
Just @mention someone
with ease

106. Choose your tools wisely

109. We built portals!
Mac mini
TV
Camera

110. Remove collaboration friction.
Easy workflows -> fast development
Keep improving!

111. Kick-ass Automation
Build Kick-ass Things
One Kick-ass Team
Kick-ass Collaboration
Four keys to
Kick-ass
Agile Development

112. We're helping people
to be faster
by automating their work

113. Automation
Kick-ass

114. How much time do you spend a week
automating your software development?

115. Whois doing continuous integration?

116. Whois doing continuous integration?
kick-ass

117. Our builds
took to long
were too complicated
were unstable
missed a concept
sucked

118. Fail Fast

119. 4 things to tame monster builds
and kick-ass again

120. 1. Pass the artifact

121. 2. Parallelize Tests

122. 3. Have a build strategy
building + unit & UI tests every check in
platform tests less frequent (every hour)
performance tests nightly builds

123. 4. Look at your stats!Data Porn

124. Faster builds >>
less task switching
Care about automation

125. More automation
awesomeness!

126. Flakey Test
Handle with care
This side up
Flakey Test Detector

127. Wallboards

128. Freud Bot

129. Use your skills to automate things!
Keep improving!

130. Release Button
single push deployment

131. Kick-ass Automation
Build Kick-ass Things
One Kick-ass Team
Kick-ass Collaboration
Four keys to
Kick-ass
Software Development

132. Agile 2015??
Late Majority Laggards

133. everything you do
is the best it can be.
Make sure

134. Sharesuccess & failures

135. Builda kick-ass culture

136. Let yourself take some risks!
don’t be afraid to fail

137. Did you
kick-ass
today?

138. Thanks!
Kick-ass talk on Kick-ass Software Development!
@chuparkoff #kickassSD at #AAB14