Presented at The Server Side Java Symposium in 2011

1. Throw Away all the Rules,
Now What Process do you
Follow?
Jeanne Boyarsky
CodeRanch/JavaRanch
@jeanneboyarsky

2. Howdy!
vs
Corporate Volunteer

3. Philosophy
Category Corporate CodeRanch
Motivation Have to Want to/ buy in
Team Recruiting/
provided
Recruiting/ self
selected
Time Full time or X %
of work week
Volunteer, duration
longer and less
predictable
Enforcement Chain of
command
Peer pressure/
reputation
Scope creep Process/
change request
Push back

4. Moving to new software

5. What is the problem we are
trying to solve?
July August September October
160000
120000
80000
40000
0
Hits for specific thread

6. Ernest shows the way!

7. Decision to launch project
Sign off:
or

8. Third Time is the Charm
#1
#2
X
X
#3 

9. Whoo hoo – we have a leader!
Pauline McNamara wrote:

10. “Management”
Who has authority?
Who has respect?
Matrix management
Can we have just one?
Can we have all three?

11. Buy vs Build decision
Different economics
Build on JForum
Fork?
Public discussion from 2005:
http://www.coderanch.com/t/2553

12. Technology

13. Tech Stack
Freemarker
Servlet/action/property file
POJO
JDBC
View
Controller
Model
Database
Postgres
Tomcat

14. Environment

15. Process

16. Subversion Version Control
Trunk
Versioning numbers
Feature branches

17. Testing
2009
2010
2011
Unit
JUnit 4 with jMock
Functional
JUnit
Web, Performance
JMeter
+ Code Reviews

18. Documentation
How to set up environment
Deployment
Migration plan for initial cutover
Who
When
Plan for Saturday January 3rd 2009
Participants: Ernest, Jeanne and Ulf
When: Gmail chat at 7am JR time
Flow
Who What
<checkpoint - make sure all online and ready to start>
EFH Make UBB read only
JB Post announcement in javaranch.com header linking to
Pauline's unavailability thread
<checkpoint - ready to start data migration>

19. Tracking items
Release notes
Wiki > Trac
Forum discussion

20. Cutover Day
Category CodeRanch
Planning Choose
2 day cutover
# People Three
Location Maryland, New York and
Germany
Main Communication Gmail chat
Duration 5 hours
Confidence Hope vs know

21. Summary/Where to start
PM – problem, leader, scope
Version control, Build, Testing
Documentation

22. Questions?
Twitter: @jeanneboyarsky
Forums: coderanch.com
Blog: selikoff.net

23. Evaluation
Throw Away all the Rules, Now What
Process do you Follow?
Jeanne Boyarsky