Arty Starr

Let's Make the PAIN Visible!

Tuesday, 10:30 AM PDT

We've got some seriously big problems in our industry. Under constant business pressure, our organization's drive one project after another into the ground. Once the chaos and fire-fighting finally gets out of control, we rewrite our software… again. How long are we going to wait for somebody else to solve this problem?!

It's about time we took responsibility. OpenDX is a strategy to kick this problem's ass. How? By measuring the pain, and putting the ridiculous costs and risks on center stage for everyone to see, then working together to figure it out.

In this talk, we'll get into the weeds of #OpenDX, a specification for data collection in software development for universally measuring the “pain” or “friction” in developer experience.

• What type of tools do we use?
• What type of analysis can we do?
• What type of patterns can we see?

Visibility changes everything. Once we can measure the pain, explain the costs and risks, and get managers and developers all pulling the same direction, suddenly we can start optimizing our organization's with a data-driven feedback loop.

OpenDX is about making healthy software projects the new norm in our industry. Status quo – You better watch out.

Stop Getting Crushed By Business Pressure

Tuesday, 5:00 PM PDT

This is my story of lessons learned on how to stop the crushing effects of business pressure… I was team lead with full control of our green-field project. After a year, we had continuous delivery, a beautiful clean code base, and worked directly with our customers to design the features. Then our company split in two, we were moved under different management, and I watched my project get crushed.

As a consultant, I saw the same pattern of relentless business pressure everywhere, driving one project after another into the ground. I made it my mission to help the development teams solve this problem. This is my story of lessons learned on how to transform an organization from the bottom up. I'll show you how to lead the way.

The crushing business pressure is caused by a broken feedback loop that's baked into the organization's design. In this presentation, I'll show you how to fix the broken feedback loop. Learn how to:

• Gather evidence of developer productivity loss
• Identify the key organizational changes required for success
• Make the case to management for improvement
• Partner with your manager for long-term success

If the system is broken, we need to fix the system. You can change the system by making the decision to lead.

Learn Your Way to AWESOME.

Wednesday, 7:30 PM PDT

How do we know if our improvements are actually making things better? If we refactor the code, did we make it better? If we skip the tests, are we making things worse? What does better really mean, anyway?

Once we start tracking metrics on the pain we experience during development, we've got a data-driven feedback loop to learn what actually works! Objective data enables us to do something we've never been able to do before in our industry: science.

The “Continuous Acceleration Toolkit” includes new metrics, new tools, and new science-based learning processes, designed to accelerate you and your team to a whole new level of productivity.

In this talk, we'll discuss the three parts of the Continuous Acceleration Toolkit (OSS Tools and Demo for 2/1/2017 release):

1. Metrics - What should we measure?
2. Decision Principles - What should we optimize for?
3. Science - How can we run experiments and accelerate productivity?

If you want to start learning and improving faster than ever, you won't want to miss this talk.