Presentation: "Deliberate Discovery: code like you mean it"
Track:
Architecture Anarchists
Time: Thursday 10:35 - 11:35
Location: Franciscan I & II
Abstract: Modern software delivery involves a top-down decomposition of a problem into packets of business and technical analysis, design, architecture, programming, testing, integration and deployment, as well as documentation and training. No matter how well-intentioned our approach to these activities, whether iterative or sequential, our success rate is still way below what it should be. Dan thinks it's because we are focusing on the wrong things, which means any software delivery is a happy accident. In this talk, he explains why ignorance is the greatest enemy to success, and presents some strategies and techniques for deliberately reducing ignorance, increasing learning and moving towards a more deterministic and lower risk software delivery.