A presentation of how we apply the principles of Agile Development at 10to1.

1. Agile Development
at 10to1
Tom Klaasen

2. Tom Klaasen
• Developing software for 10 years
• Java/J2EE
• Co-founded 10to1 in 2006
• Since 2008: Ruby on Rails, iOS

3. Who is here?
• Experience with agile
• You want to convince who?

4. People

5. People
• 4 developers
• Passionnate
• Highly skilled

6. Philosophy
• Do what we want to do (programming!)
• Have fun doing this
• “Take your work seriously. Yourself, not
so.”

7. “Agile development”?
• Communication

8. Communication
• Workable application from day 1
• Deployments every few days
• Meetings: developers talk with users

9. Communication
• “We grow software”
• http://blog.10to1.be/general/2010/06/17/
we-grow-software/

10. Communication tools
• Telephone
• Face-to-face meetings (max. 1/week)
• Email
• Campfire
• Lighthouse
• git
• Continuous integration
• “10to1 Newsletter”

11. Tests
• Regression
• Unit tests (business logic)

12. What we don’t do
• Kanban
• Backlog at the beginning of the project
• 100% test coverage
• Test controllers (thin in Rails)
• (Structured) pair programming

13. What we do differently
• Stand-up meeting: coffee!

14. The influence of
language
• Ruby, Rails: Convention over configuration
• Java/J2EE: A lot of groundwork

15. Misconceptions
• A way to put pression on developers

16. Pain points
• Contracts

17. “Agile”
• No one way
• Philosophy, not rules

18. • Tom Klaasen
• tom@10to1.be
• 0475 28 17 62
• @10to1