Unsucking Your Team's Development Environment

It's so great to have the design notes posted with the slides. I'm in the middle of creating my second presentation for my current company, and I've gotten very positive feedback about the elements of "Slide Design for Developers" that have been incorporated. Will definitely continue to draw upon Zach Holman for inspiration.

Also very topical as I'm leading the charge for creating onboarding scripts. We won't get to a GitHub level of automation overnight, but you gotta start somewhere. His point on slide #64, that new hires can be productive on Day 1, is something we've felt acutely as of late when hiring talented generalists to work on more specialized problems.

GitHub is an awesome product that I truly love, but more and more I'm finding myself awe'd by the company more than the product. The fact that they've been able to take some of their principals (no managers) and scale them up as they've grown very quickly is truly remarkable.

I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of other very interesting companies get started up as GH alumni eventually start to spin off...

It would be great if you could open-source some of the non-GH-specific setup scripts.

(this raises and expands on similar ideas to a blog post I wrote a while ago -- http://blog.tapin.tv/take-time-to-develop-fast.html)