Delivered to San Diego IAMCP - May 2013

1. Top 10 Tips for Software
Development Management
Dedicated Developers
Masterful Designers
Enlightened Artisans
Software Craftsmen

2. #1: The Difference Between
Average, Good, & Great

3. #2: Finding & Keeping the Best

4. #3: Hiring Process

5. #4: Continuous
Integration/Continuous Deployment
• We do it when we feel like it
• We do it daily
• We do it on a schedule
• We do it at every check-in to source control

6. #5: Developers Cannot Be Trusted
“I don’t like accounting, so I don’t do
much of it”
James Grenning

7. #6: The Importance of Shipping
Software

8. #7: Resume Building

9. #8: Allow Failure

10. #9: When to Test
Write a line of code Deliver Code to Users

11. #10: Logs on the Fire

12. Q & A
The Monastery
Ike Ellis
www.the-monastery.com
@ike_ellis
Blog.the-monastery.com
www.linkedin.com/in/ikeellis
ike@the-monastery.com
619.922.9801