delivering code as a team chief executive of web applications craig dean oldham president of greater...
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Delivering code as a team
Chief Executive of Web Applications
Craig Dean
Oldham President ofGreater Manchester Chamber of Commerce
What are you doing after University?
• Working for a company dedicated to software development.
Dev/Engineer
• Working as part of an in-house team for a non-IT company.
• Working in a non-IT job.Burger Flipper
Support
• Working on your own or as part of a small team.
• Large potion of work will be maintenance related.
• Normally working for internal clients – i.e. managers.
• If using a methodology will probably be Agile (e.g. SCRUM).
What are you doing after University?
Engineer • Surrounded by other engineers.• Large variety of projects.• Typically customers are external.• Methodologies tend to lean
towards traditional Waterfall.
BE AN ENGINEERDON’T BE A LONER!
Defining a businessThe role of process
OUTPUTSPROCESS
Methodologies
Quality
Team
Customer
INPUTS
Part of a real progressEnsuring Quality
Keeping track of progressIssue Tracking systems
BUGZILLA
PIVOTAL TRACKER FOGBUGZ
DEMONSTRATION
On my ownAdding people ruins it
Lone WolfWebbiepedia
Webbiepedia (backup)
Webbiepedia (v2)
The hired help
Playing nice in theDeveloper Sandbox
Team Leader
Dev 1
Dev 2
Dev 3
Dev 4
Everyone a King!Distributed Version Control
Team Leader
Dev 1
Dev 3
Dev 4
DEMONSTRATION
What next?Preparing for the real world
Work in teamsContribute to OS projects
Read BlogsCodePlex, GitHub, SourceForge, Google Code
Engadget, TechCrunch, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack
27-28 October @ MOSI – hackmanchester.com
Keep in touchContacting us
@WebAppUK
@UncleThargywww.webapplicationsuk.com
@WAUKCE