The 7 Deadly Sins of Developer Onboarding

My talk as given at DevXCon SF 2017

Transcript

1. SE7EN The Sins of Developer Onboarding
2. Cristiano Betta
3. DX Designer
4. betta.io
5. @cbetta
6. I get angry
7. Very angry
10. $$$
11. HACKATHONS
12. T-SHIRTS
13. DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
14. AAARRRRRRRRR
15. AAARRRRRRRRR
16. SE7EN The Sins of Developer Onboarding
17. DEADLY The Sins of Developer Onboarding
22. WAT?
24. FTP?
26. CURL?
29. Get Started
35. What do you value?
36. Email addresses?
37. Twitter followers?
38. Paying users?
48. PUNCH ME
51. Product
52. API + Docs
54. Extra
55. community
67. Perfection Broken
68. Perfection Broken Good Enough
70. ?????????
95. community
96. DESIRE
97. 1. Jargon-y The desire to show others that your are a smart-ass The desire to have show people you’re smarter than them
98. 2. Unfocussed The desire to posses email addresses The desire to have others just figure stuff out on their own
99. 3. Undisciplined The desire to ship before the documentation is ready The desire to ship before a product it is ready
100. 4. Arrogant The desire for everyone to learn the way you learn The desire to want a product that magically explains itself
101. 5. Scrooge The desire to make money The desire to make money of everyone
102. 6. Frustrated The desire to punish bad behaviour The desire to have others deal with your spam problem
103. 7. Short sighted The desire to have others make your SDKs for you The desire to have a product that doesn't need SDKs
104. Hanlon’s Razor
105. Hanlon’s Razor “Never attribute to MALICE that which is adequately explained by INABILITY”
106. Cristiano Betta cristiano@betta.io work.betta.io @cbetta
107. DevXCon Workshop May 23, 2̸17 betta.io
108. Cristiano Betta cristiano@betta.io work.betta.io @cbetta