Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
The Successful Shipper
Search
Keavy McMinn
June 15, 2017
8
480
The Successful Shipper
Keavy McMinn
June 15, 2017
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Keavy McMinn
See All by Keavy McMinn
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
keavy
126
17k
Improving your workflow with the GitHub API
keavy
9
910
Integrations
keavy
3
650
How to mend a broken identity
keavy
0
220
Better work, through better feedback.
keavy
1
500
Internal Tools
keavy
9
1.5k
Must. Try. Harder.
keavy
0
510
Career Health Check
keavy
0
300
From Artist To Programmer
keavy
1
430
Featured
See All Featured
We Have a Design System, Now What?
morganepeng
52
7.6k
Performance Is Good for Brains [We Love Speed 2024]
tammyeverts
10
780
Stop Working from a Prison Cell
hatefulcrawdad
268
20k
Gamification - CAS2011
davidbonilla
81
5.3k
Designing for Performance
lara
608
69k
The Power of CSS Pseudo Elements
geoffreycrofte
75
5.8k
The Success of Rails: Ensuring Growth for the Next 100 Years
eileencodes
45
7.2k
Speed Design
sergeychernyshev
29
930
How to Think Like a Performance Engineer
csswizardry
23
1.6k
GitHub's CSS Performance
jonrohan
1031
460k
Site-Speed That Sticks
csswizardry
6
540
[RailsConf 2023 Opening Keynote] The Magic of Rails
eileencodes
29
9.5k
Transcript
The Successful Shipper Ship It, Gothenburg, Sweden Keavy McMinn |
GitHub @keavy
Definition of a successful shipper
Why being a shipper is important to me
Why being a shipper is important to me
Value
What does successful look like?
None
Successful
The “Hero” Coder
Narrow focus
Not sustainable
Exclude others from recognition High profile features
None
Results AND communication A different version of successful
Results
Anti-Pattern: Focus on shipping a big feature Results
Anti-Pattern: Focus on shipping a big feature Results
None
Anti-Pattern: Focus on shipping a big feature Results
Ship Responsibly! Results
Anti-Pattern: Focus on shipping a big feature Results
Anti-Pattern: the hero coder gets all the credit Results
Anti-Pattern: the hero coder gets all the credit Results
Anti-Pattern: the hero coder gets all the credit Results
Process and relationships Communication
Process and relationships Communication
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
Anti-Pattern: Communication about the project hits blockage Processes
None
None
Anti-Pattern: The focus is on building the wrong thing Processes
Anti-Pattern: The focus is on building the wrong thing Processes
Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Internal people dependencies are slowing you down Relationships
Trickle Down Effect Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Internal people dependencies are slowing you down Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Internal people dependencies are slowing you down Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Internal people dependencies are slowing you down Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Internal people dependencies are slowing you down Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Your boss blocks you shipping Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Your boss blocks you shipping Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Your boss blocks you shipping Relationships
Anti-Pattern: Your boss blocks you shipping Relationships
Balance between results, processes and relationships Successful shippers...
• Value all the tasks • Ensure everyone gets credit
• Communicate all the time • Focus on the problem, not your solution • Value all the people • Nurture allies and sponsors
None
Thanks! Ship It, Gothenburg, Sweden Keavy McMinn | GitHub @keavy
None