It Is Not About Software Anymore
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Claim: urgent technology change during the pandemic is rarely about software alone but about reconfiguring infrastructure and supply chains now. Examples: schools go online in days, retail scales curbside pickup in two weeks, Twitter shifts most staff to remote in one week. Failures and fixes are concrete: a national flour shortage due to packaging not mills, a pizza factory repurposes ovens to make 5,000 face shields per day, SpaceX uses a responsible engineer model to land boosters and cut launch cost per kilo. Practical advice: small multidisciplinary teams, pull from demand, short queues.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 1:22A Call to Action
- 2:26Around the Globe, The Impossible
- 7:30And We Learned About Managem
- 9:49Has Working From Home been succes
- 13:35Job Content Matters!
- 18:09The Responsible Engineer Model
- 20:26Philosophy of Responsibility
- 23:34Why Supply Chains Break
- 26:37The Relentless Pursuit of Efficiency has Created Fragile Supply Chains
- 27:56A Perishable Goods Supply Chain Optimizes for Speed
- 29:49Don't Batch and Queue
- 32:37We Know about Disruption
- 34:56Netflix VS Blockbuster
- 36:50We Know How to Survive Disruption
- 40:01John Boyd's OODA (Maneuverability) Loop
- 44:02The New Normal
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