Change needs a mover
Growing a software craftsmanship
community for a large enterprise
Who are we?
„Maddin“Agile Coach & Community Gardener
@martinheider
O|iSoftware Craftsman @ DATEV
@olsharoth
Andy & DanielSoftware Craftsmen @ DATEV@Fischermaen & @DBCoding
The„Youth“ Who Went Forth …
SCC @ DATEV history since 2012
2012
Andy is tasked with introducing
„Clean Code“
2012
The first Clean Code training fails
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brainsluice/359291570/
2012
Retrospective
2012
Brainstorming ideas
2012
The search for a new trainer
2012
The responsible software developer
2013
Changing the training room
2013
First community meeting with
monthly events afterwards
2013
The new training - pilot event
2013
Slowly establishing coding dojos
2013
Booth at In-house Developer Day
2013
First Code Retreat (introduction, 5 sessions,
retrospectives and networking)
2014
Visibility is key
2014
Code Retreats No. 2 and 3
2014
Participants selected by lottery
2014
The first Developer Awards
2014
Monthly community meetings
2014
Colleagues visit SoCraTes for the first time
2015
Moving to the IT Campus
2015
Code Retreats 4 thru 7
2015
The first Legacy Code Retreat
2015
Code Retreats: Strategy day
2015
More community activities
2016
„Make it part of your job description“
2016
Knowledge from the outside
2016
Marketing in 2016
2016
A mentor for the community
2016
Code Retreats 8 thru 11
2016
Global Day of Code Retreat
2016
Code Retreats: Organisers retro
2016
Code Retreats: Second strategy day
2017
Community meetings: A dedicated team
2017
„Hackerkegeln“ and more
2017
Rules by the community, for the community
2017
DATEV sponsors SoCraTes
2017
Code Retreats 12 thru 15
2017
Some experiments fail
GDCR@DATEV: 100+ registrations
2017
2018
Next steps?
New blood & more outside knowledge
Questions„Maddin“
Agile Coach & Community Gardener@martinheider
O|iSoftware Craftsman @ DATEV
@olsharoth
Andy & DanielSoftware Craftsmen @ DATEV@DBCoding & @Fischermaen