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Without Simplicity, There's Just No Agility

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Talkat GOTO Aarhus 2013 · 2013-09-30..10-02· [frontend-architecture]

speaker

name:Russ Miles
website:http://www.russmiles.com

resources

video:https://youtu.be/Ee1VcWQJfzA
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that simplicity is the engine of agility and shows concrete tactics that stop overproduction: replaced a planned 10‑person, 2‑year build with sticky notes; rescued a project that would have wasted millions; reduced teams to threes to deliver daily increments and restore throughput. Uses Count the Concerns to limit cognitive load, applies organize reduce encapsulate across code and process, and advocates Impact Mapping and Real Options as experimentable techniques that reveal assumptions and make software and teams truly adaptable.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 2:01Without Simplicity, there's no Agility Russ Miles
  3. 2:49On What Matters
  4. 8:51Forces against Agility?
  5. 11:29Assumptions...
  6. 14:00Problems of Software Development
  7. 19:33Your software's first role is to be useful
  8. 21:24The best software is that which is not needed at all
  9. 24:21Human comprehension is King
  10. 25:40Mechanical Sympathy is Queen
  11. 26:15Software is a process of R&D
  12. 27:30Software Development is an extremely challenging Intellectual Pursuit
  13. 29:013 Areas to Address
  14. 29:49A means of organizing work that embraces change
  15. 30:29A means of managing the natural constraints of your software so that it can adapt
  16. 31:38Simplicity (in Software) My working definition
  17. 32:01Reducing Entanglement
  18. 36:23Started off with 5 Principles
  19. 40:20Organise = Reduce = Encapsulate
  20. 41:11Reduce Entanglement, Increase Comprehension
  21. 42:07What's the goal?
  22. 42:18The Elephant in the Standup
  23. 45:30"Count the Concerns" pattern
  24. 49:31Impact Mapping
  25. 50:00Real Options
  26. 50:55Emergence is natural

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