The history of software development is rich with extraordinary individuals whose knowledge of their systems was unrivalled. But in 2016, where distributed systems and machine learning are ubiquitous and the average web app uses two frameworks, four languages and six caching layers, does it make any sense to talk about …
Some definitions of psychology, philosophy and programming. Philosophy: ancient Greek for “love of wisdom”, philosophy is the study of the general and fundamental nature of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language. Psychology: the study of mind and behavior. Programming: ancient Latin for “please God let it compile this …
This Beyond Software Craftsmanship talk discusses the career of Johnny – a full-stack software developer with 5+ years of experience under the belt, M.Sc degree and ‘get sh%t done fast’ mentality. Although Johnny possess exceptional technical skills, Milton – his manager, doesn’t give him promotion, no matter how hard Johnny …
Imagine a culture where the input of the whole organization turns an individual idea into a user story in just a couple of hours, where everybody’s goal is to make the customer’s job easier and more effective, and where you work on projects you love instead of projects you loathe.
The theme of this talk is that conventional power to IT Architects, and to IT Managers, the power to design the technical system, and Management power to design the IT or Software Organization is not placed in the right hands. We have a number of historical case studies that show, …
Medicine was very different in the early 1900s. It was challenging to find human cadavers, so surgeons had to practice on pigs before they graduated to operating on live humans. This is where we are with software development: we program on pigs and then deploy to humans. This talk shows …
