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Sharing recipes from Osmius experience
José Luis Marina@jlmarina
It is possible to build big and complex products with a few good people.
The Osmius Development Team
What is Osmius?
Osmius is Open software that allows us to monitorand supervise anything connected to a network
Osmius is Open software that allows us to monitorand supervise anything connected to a network
What problem addresses Osmius?
You can't manage your Xif you don't monitor you Key Indicators (Y).
You can't manage your Xif you don't monitor you Key Indicators (Y).
Where X and Y can be:X = your car Y = {speed, rpm}X = your startup Y = {clicks, sales, new visitors}X = your systems Y = {cpu_load, memory, band widht, latency}X = solar power plant Y = {kwh, radiation, weather forecast}X = business Y = {human res., incomes, pending orders}
What is Osmius?
5
Systems
Host Server, ApplicationsDatabases
Service is down Response time
CPU % Load
And what about...Social networks?Business KPIs?
News about a new protein?
Applications
Web ApplicationsServicesEnd user
experience
Response timeTransactions
Osmius competitorsThe Big Four in monitoring
HP OpenView , IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, CAOld Complex IT_only Expensive Expensive Expensive
Other professional Monitoring ProductsZennos 60 employees $21 M USAHyperic 30 employees $11 M USA (springSource) System oriented scalability technology (python, java)
Free Software Monitoring ProductsZabbixNagiosOld ComplexNo support No RoadMap
$ figures come from http://www.crunchbase.com
Osmius facts
Osmius is a complex product with a big MVP
Osmius offers more than “big”/old companies/products
A small team did it in 3 years (first product)
Working 6 hours a day (90% of the days)
Recipes from the experience
Some may work for you...some won't
Recipes: Building the team from scratch
use people you know worked with
use the power of word of mouth
don't trust psychological profilesyou know how nerds(we) are
respect people independence
Recipes: Hiring::Dead man strategy
by default you are dead (fired) in one month
if you prevailed your are dead again in 6 months.
Unless the are positive reasons to go on working together
This avoids to keep with people for lazy reasons.
Of course you don't know this strategy (it wouldn't be fair)
Normally you know things aren't working.
Sounds worst than it actually is.
Recipes: total freedom and responsibility
treat people like adults
All the results are clearly advantages:● Sharing decisions (product, marketing, even finances)● No wasted time as a watch dog (double lost: my time, your time)● Transparency● This is motivation
Results and demo every month Stable releases: Twice a year Task: Lasts two days máximum. Updated every day. Visibility Enables work at home (no bosses).Scrum master rotates
Results and demo every month Stable releases: Twice a year Task: Lasts two days máximum. Updated every day. Visibility Enables work at home (no bosses).Scrum master rotates
Recipes: Methodology
Recipes: six hours
treat people like adults, again
The trick here is a combination of these ideas:
● Those 6 hours must be real 6 f****g focused hours.● After 6 hours of real programming: Don't touch the keyboard!● Every task is time boxed (see methodology)● Group pressure is more intense than “the boss pressure”
“Race is long”
Recipes: developing software
speed matters
tune every query
always test 100x elements
documentation is part of a finished task
design matters: look and work
English is mandatory
open your roadmap
Recipes: open/free source software
accept that there are users that will never pay for your software
it helps with distribution at no cost
But...
partners need you to be non-free
they want their share of Osmius “licenses”
Osmius Enterprise Edition works for us
Some final advice (we didn't check these)
Why kill the bear if you didn't sell the skin?
“find the customers first or ASAP”
Business plans. Sale cycles are looong.
Find customers outside the in-crisis territories
Use partners: they can reach where you can't
Osmius www.osmius.com
Osmius Manual – Wikiwww.osmius.com/osmwiki
José Luis Marinawww.jlmarina.net
@jlmarina
Osmius www.osmius.com
Osmius Manual – Wikiwww.osmius.com/osmwiki
José Luis Marinawww.jlmarina.net
@jlmarina
