Description: As Mark Zuckerberg said “Move fast and break things”. But who gets to clean up all things broken things? And who wants to spend their precious development energy working around broken pieces. There is a space for being agile and being rugged at the same time. This talk will: * give a brief overview of agile development principles, refresher for those who know and a teaser for the rest * provide examples of my experience from 25 years of software development * discuss how agile and rugged principles can be applied not only to your work, but also your career and management style.

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Being Rugged in an Agile World
Ginny C Ghezzo
Program Director, IBM
October 27, 2017

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We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping
others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
● Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
● Working software over comprehensive documentation
● Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
● Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the
left more.
Agile Manifesto
http://agilemanifesto.org/

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I am rugged and, more importantly, my code is rugged.
I recognize that software has become a foundation of our modern world.
I recognize the awesome responsibility that comes with this foundational role.
I recognize that my code will be used in ways I cannot anticipate, in ways it was not
designed, and for longer than it was ever intended.
I recognize that my code will be attacked by talented and persistent adversaries who
threaten our physical, economic and national security.
I recognize these things – and I choose to be rugged.
I am rugged because I refuse to be a source of vulnerability or weakness.
I am rugged because I assure my code will support its mission.
I am rugged because my code can face these challenges and persist in spite of them.
I am rugged, not because it is easy, but because it is necessary and I am up for the
challenge.
What is Rugged

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More -ilities (thanks James D. Willis, Jr.)
Accessibility Accountability Adaptability Administrability Affordability Agility
Availability Capability Composability Configurability Compatibility Demonstrability
Deployability Durability Executability Extensibility Evolvability Fidelity Flexibility
Functionality Integratability Interoperability Interpretability Maintainability
Manageability Mobility Modifiability Operability Performability Portability Practibilty
Practicality Predictability Producibility Recoverability Reliability Repeatability
Responsibility Reusability Scalability Serviceability Stability Supportability Suitability
Survivability Tailorability Testability Traceability Trainability Transportability
Trustability Understandability Upgradability Usability Verifiability Vulnerability

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Consider the -ilities
● Can you use it?
○ UsabilitySecurity
● Can you use it a lot?
○ ScalabilityAvailabilityReliability
● Can you use it for a while?
○ ServiceabilityMaintainabilityExtensibility

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Advice and Take Aways
1. Listen to those who have to do the work
2. Make your stakeholders, your advocates
3. Data trumps opinion everytime
4. Good processes, good data, good people help you see the future
5. Always understand ROI and Opportunity Costs. Not all good ideas are worth it.
Correlary: Sometimes you need to keep at a thing to see the ROI
6. Invest the appropriate amount for the job. Think about its life cycle
7. Acknowledge the FUD, but focus on the real
8. Take risks to reap rewards
9. Have a high tolerance for failure and find what works

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Personal Advice and Take Aways
1. Get out in the commuity
2. Always have a 5 minute “Lightning Talk” in your back pocket
3. Get on GitHub.com, Codepen.io & other tools
4. Listen - By understanding, be understood
5. The ‘little’ skills make a difference over time. Strive to be better,
but don’t wait to be perfect.
6. Remember what brought you here in the first place

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