Without Simplicity, There's Just No Agility • Russ Miles • GOTO 2013

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2013
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Russ Miles - Co-Author of Head First Software Development

ABSTRACT
Rich Hickey has stated "The simpler solution is going to kick your butt", Russ Miles would go further, "The simpler solution is already kicking your butt; no one is more agile than the teams developing with simplicity in mind".

But what makes a complex solution and why is its complexity such a confining force on your ability to be agile and respond to market needs? In this talk Russ Miles, principal consultant at Simplicity Itself, will share the hard lessons learned while designing a real world application that, through applying practical simplicity techniques to its architecture and design, managed to harness and then maintain the real benefits of agility, saving a company from over-producing, wasting millions of pounds and, more importantly, months of people's lives!

TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
2:01 Without Simplicity, there's no Agility Russ Miles
2:10 Let's stop polishing the Process Turd.
2:49 On What Matters
8:51 Forces against Agility?
8:55 Managing Natural Emergence
11:29 Assumptions...
14:00 Problems of Software Development
19:33 Your software's first role is to be useful
21:24 The best software is that which is not needed at all
24:21 Human comprehension is King
25:40 Mechanical Sympathy is Queen
26:15 Software is a process of R&D
27:30 Software Development is an extremely challenging Intellectual Pursuit
29:01 3 Areas to Address
29:08 A means of exploring, recognizing and delivering the right thing
29:49 A means of organizing work that embraces change
30:29 A means of managing the natural constraints of your software so that it can adapt
31:38 Simplicity (in Software) My working definition
32:01 Reducing Entanglement
36:23 Started off with 5 Principles
40:20 Organise = Reduce = Encapsulate
41:11 Reduce Entanglement, Increase Comprehension
42:07 What's the goal?
42:18 The Elephant in the Standup
45:30 "Count the Concerns" pattern
49:31 Impact Mapping
50:00 Real Options
50:08 Summary
50:55 Emergence is natural
51:00 Adaptable Software Wins

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Miles, Giguere & Smith • Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms • https://amzn.to/3X4Bq4h
Mina, Warda, Marins & Miles • Digitalization of Financial Services in the Age of Cloud • https://amzn.to/4gIYsow
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/412KEzf
Dan Pilone & Russ Miles • Head First Software Development • https://amzn.to/4i02JF0

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