Leena S N

CTO, Co-Founder @ Practice Now
 https://confengine.com/user/leena-s-n

I’m a Pragmatic & Passionate Programmer, Lean Thinker, Extreme Programming Evangelist hooked into Continuous Delivery and a mother of two Lovely Angels.

With 15+ years of experience in the industry, I’ve seen many failures in software product development either because of the team lacking the discipline in delivering software or because of creating something that nobody wants.

My journey of building a team @ Multunus gave me a lot of opportunities to concentrate on the first problem i.e. bringing in sustainability and predictability in software delivery using Continuous Delivery and Extreme Programming Practices. The major changes implemented were:

– First milestone of the product being released within 8-12 weeks of kick-off
– Major product milestones released every 3-4 weeks
– Deployments at least once every 2 days

At Multunus, we have a rigorous training program for newbies which I designed along with my senior colleagues. This training process helps us:

– Onboard a fresh grad on a project after 8-12 weeks of training
– The person moving at the same pace as experienced programmers right from the onset

I have shared my experiences of through workshops and talks at various conferences like AgileIndia, JSFoo, DroidCon and other meetups. Most of the talks were around:

– How to get started with Continuous Delivery, especially practices like Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Development
– How to create squads of cross-functional teams focussed on delivering value to the customers, using techniques such as Impact Mapping

My experiences vary from consumer-facing products to large enterprise products in the areas such as Mobile Device Management, Business Process/Workflow.

I’ve worked with a variety of frameworks across various languages and my more recent work has been in Java, Ruby and JavaScript.

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  • Schedule

    30th Sep (IST)

  • 19:30  - 19:50
    Feature Toggle is one of the key practices for Continuous Delivery, but not enough has spoken about the same. Feature branching is popular, but everyone knows about the “merge hell”, a common issue because of long-lived branches or infrequent integration. How do you continuously merge, test and release software with great confidence without spending too much time on merging and fixing conflict issues? That is where Mainline development, one of the key practices of Continuous Delivery, comes into the picture and Feature Toggle works in conjunction with the same. Feature Toggle [also referred to as Feature Flip, Feature Switch, Feature flag] is a simple technique which allows you to turn on or off a feature through configuration. Feature toggles give you the flexibility to toggle features in specific environments i.e. turn on a feature in testing or staging servers and turn it off the same in production. This also helps to rollback features, as rolling back is as simple as turning off the feature and deploying.
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