The way software is developed and run in production has changed dramatically over the past ten years. These changes are just now reaching the “mainstream” who are looking to respond to the idea that “software is eating the world” and use software like all the “unicorns” we read about in the market. Getting your advice strictly from unicorn companies can feel a lot like getting dieting advice from celebrities: it sure will work if you have unlimited resources, few constraints, and, well, are already successful. What can the rest of shlubs who actually work in “the real world do” to get closer to the benefits of being “cloud native”?
This talk answers that question by looking at the current state of IT and how the role of IT has changed in recent years: if around ⅔ of businesses think IT doesn’t help them innovate, how is IT going to be effective in an era where custom written software is key to surviving and thriving in a business world where competitive advantages are now highly transient? Building on my observations in recent years about what technologies are helping organizations and, more importantly, the organizational and process (“culture,” the unicorns call it) the rest of the talk goes over how organizations can switch up their tools and approach to IT to code like a unicorn.
See a rehearsal recording of this presentation here, as well as slides for various versions of it: http://cote.io/2016/03/03/unicorn-coding/.
If we are to go Beyond Agile we must consider the problems that remain even after teams have adopted agile methods. Are the problems caused by agile methods, or just not addressed?
Bring your thorny ‘beyond agile’ problems; you may help shape the software development practices of the future.
Everyone's heard the old saying "A family thats plays together, stays together", right? Well this session is going to kick that up a notch and talk about getting the family to "hack" together. It starts out discussing the different forms of hacking a family might embrace and at what age levels each might be best suited. Along the way it highlights what supplies & equipment you might need, as well as suggesting the overall costs that one might expect to incur. It then takes a brief focus on safety and proper use of that equipment. The session finishes off with some tips and tricks that may help with both the hacks themselves, as well as getting the family to actually interact by joining in on the fun.
Here's a link to the slides - http://bit.ly/1seSnsb.