1. Software Craftsmanship
Sandro Mancuso http://www.londonswcraft.com
@sandromancuso @londonswcraft

2. Software Craftsmen just care about
beautiful code

3. Agile Software Development
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.

4. We adopted Agile and now things will be OK
… and the Agile Transformation Era began.

5. And then we spend 10 year focusing on...
… people, interactions, team building, the ecosystem
Process and Interactions became more important than
technical practices

6. The Agile Hangover
Many Agile projects are now, steadily and
iteratively, producing crap mediocre software.

7. We want to get things done...
… but we are under pressure

8. The wrong notion of time

9. But what is to be Agile anyway?

10. Agile Software Development
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.

11. The invisible threat
Code
quality
Time per feature

12. Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
raising the bar
As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software
development by practising it and helping others learn the craft. Through this
work we have come to value:

13. Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
raising the bar
As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software
development by practising it and helping others learn the craft. Through this
work we have come to value:
Not only working software,
but also well-crafted software

14. Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
raising the bar
As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software
development by practising it and helping others learn the craft. Through this
work we have come to value:
Not only working software,
but also well-crafted software
Not only responding to change,
but also steadily adding value

15. Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
raising the bar
As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software
development by practising it and helping others learn the craft. Through this
work we have come to value:
Not only working software,
but also well-crafted software
Not only responding to change,
but also steadily adding value
Not only individuals and interactions,
but also a community of professionals

16. Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
raising the bar
As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software
development by practising it and helping others learn the craft. Through this
work we have come to value:
Not only working software,
but also well-crafted software
Not only responding to change,
but also steadily adding value
Not only individuals and interactions,
but also a community of professionals
Not only customer collaboration,
but also productive partnerships

17. What is Software Craftsmanship?
Software Craftsmanship is all about putting
responsibility, professionalism, pragmatism and
pride back into software development

18. Does context matter?
Does it always matter?

19. How do we know we are building
the right thing?
How do we know we are building
the thing right?

21. Adding value through practice
l Automated testing
l Test first
l Test-Driven Development
l Pair-programming
l Continuous Integration

22. Don't discuss practices,
discuss value.

23. Healthy Intolerance
How can you add more value and/or have
smaller feedback cycles when not using our
practices?

24. Mastering the practices is hard …
… and that's why we practice

25. Perfect practice
(narrowing the gap)

26. Software Craftsmanship is a
long journey to mastery

27. Software Craftsmanship Attitude
- Owning your career
- Not a 9 to 5 profession
- Practice
- Boy scout rule
- Expecting promotions

28. The attitude towards
legacy code

29. Why would we want to be better
developers?

30. Software Craftsmanship Movement
- Pragmatic Programmer and Software Craftsmanship books are
published (1999 and 2001)
- Dec, 2008: Meeting in US defining a set of principles for Sofware
Craftsmanship
- Feb, 2009: First Software Craftsmanship Conference in London
- Mar, 2009: Software Craftsmanship Manifesto
- Apr, 2009: Craftsman swap between Obtiva and 8th Light
- Aug, 2009: First SCNA conference in Chicago
- Oct, 2009: Apprenticeship Patterns is published
- Aug, 2010: LSCC was founded
- Oct, 2010: Second edition of conferences in London and Chicago
- Sep, 2011: Software Craftsmanship Conference in Germany

31. Software Craftsmanship is not...
… a church, trying to convert all developers
It's about leading by example and showing how we can
be better
… about beautiful code
It's about continuously delivering value not writing
crap code

32. Raising the Bar

33. Stop...
… being miserable and negative
… spreading your frustrations

34. The only way to have people buying
into what you believe is if they see
you happy.

35. Craftsmanship is not enough to
guarantee the success of a project
but the lack of it can be the main
cause of its failure

36. Agile and Craftsmanship complement each other
and both are necessary.
Agile processes assume technical excellence and a
professional attitude.
Software Craftsmanship takes technical excellence
and professionalism to a whole new level.

37. London Software Craftsmanship
Community - LSCC
http://www.londonswcraft.com

38. Thank You
Sandro Mancuso http://craftedsw.blogspot.com
@sandromancuso http://www.londonswcraft.com