Way of the Herokai

Mediate on the Heroku Way...

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1. Way of the Herokai @schneems
2. @schneems
3. Schnauser
5. I <3 Ruby
6. Hans Peter Von Wolfe (the 5th)
7. ‚ Schneeman
8. Wicked ‘ ‘ Gem
9. Triage Code codetriage.com
11. Adjunct Professor
12. Good News Everyone! schneems.com/ut-rails
13. Most Importantly
15. We optimize developer happiness
16. Git Push: Deploy
17. Ruby Task Force
18. Ruby Task Force Meetings
19. The Heroku Way
20. Can only be sought, never attained “
21. Questions? @schneems
22. The Heroku Way is not
23. Defaulting to the easiest
24. The Heroku Way is not
25. Following the herd
26. The Heroku Way is not
27. Doing it because it’s what we did last time
28. The Heroku Way IS
29. Reflecting on every moment
30. Constantly asking: Why
31. or Why not?
32. Why: did we do it this way?
33. Could we do it better?
34. Hunt problems not solutions
35. comes from
36. Hero +
37. Hero + Haiku
38. Samurai Followed “bun and the bu”
39. Not enough to master the blade
40. จ෢྆ಓ The pen and the sword in accord
42. Waza Task Force
43. The art of Coffee
44. Making coffee the right way
45. Making coffee the Heroku way
46. Carefully Roasted Beans
47. Fresh Ground Coffee (minutes ago)
48. Precision Kettle
49. Chemex
50. 205˚F
51. ~3˚C? ??
52. Time
53. Why?
54. Efficiency is good
55. Never Sacrifice Efficiency for reflection
56. Building the best product, deliberately
57. Fully present
58. Don’t forget
59. CoWorkers
60. Teach new employees how
61. 1 Brew enough for 2 Cups
62. Share the work, share the workflow
63. At Heroku we believe deploying apps should be easy and making coffee should be hard." - @mattmanning & @pvh
64. How Herokai Get stuff done
65. “Herokai”
66. A member of Heroku
67. Not Pronounced like..
68. No Deadlines
69. Instead: Priorities
70. Ship it when it is ready
71. Ship it when it is right
72. No Deadlines*
73. Problem Research Prototype Alpha Beta Release
74. Problem Research Prototype Alpha Beta Release }
75. Does it always work like that?
76. Nope
77. Problem: Awesome feature (B) relies on Amazing feature (A)
78. GH Issues
79. A long time ago... Largest GH customer
80. Project Coordination
81. Who decides on what features
82. Ponies vs Mustangs
83. Mustang
84. Pony
85. Why?
86. Sounds better than “things we really freaking have to do” and “stuff we should probably do someday”
87. Makers Day
88. Makers Day
89. Makers Day
90. Cut out Distractions
91. No Meetings
92. Focus, reflect, get work done
93. Developer Productivity:
94. 3 steps 1 step <
95. 1 step No steps <
96. Time critical issues...
97. Incident Commander Incident Commander
98. Examples: Availability Security Performance
99. Coordinates comms
100. Prioritizes Work
101. Recruits Help to fill the gaps
102. IC removes blockers, lets devs focus
103. Postmortem & followup actions
104. Status Site
105. In-office offline lights
106. Remo-kais
107. Remo(te)- (Hero)kais
108. 70% In SF
109. Protip: don’t call SF “san fran”
110. Ever
111. I live in Austin, Tx
112. No: I do not ride a horse to work
113. (I work from home)
114. Tools:
115. Trello
116. Github Issues
117. Campfire
118. G+ Hangouts
119. Remote Week
120. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here
121. Campfire + gchat much more active
122. Organized by VIBE
123. An organization dedicated to preserving our culture, and developer sanity
125. Developers: building tools for developers
126. No one can walk the path for you
127. You must find it yourself
128. A meditation on Herokai
129. “ Herokai seek dreams,
130. “ Herokai seek dreams, meditating happiness.
131. “ Herokai seek dreams, meditating happiness. Building sharp simple tools
132. “ Herokai seek dreams, meditating happiness. Building sharp simple tools #haiku
133. The Way of the Herokai
134. Questions? @schneems (btw I have stickers)
135. Questions? @schneems