Talk: This Is The Sound of All Of Us
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Martin Burns
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This Is The Sound of All Of Us
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Software development is a creative endeavour that requires intense collaboration between skilled people to produce results far greater than that of the sum of the individuals. Humanity has done this before - we call it 'Music'. What lessons can hundreds of years of humans working together to produce Music teach us, particularly when we seek to create larger works? Using more musical examples than deserve to fit in 45 minutes, Martin Burns brings 40 years of musical experience and formal education from his first career to bear on the problems of his current day job.
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"This is the sound of all of us Singing with love and the will to trust Leave the rest behind it will turn to dust This is the sound of all of us" The Wailin’ Jennies – One Voice Often we talk about the power of small, self-organising groups of people, working collaboratively. Lyssa Adkins gives a beautiful example of a string quartet in her powerful book on coaching on how the quartet members work together and communicate constantly throughout a performance. Some of the most powerful music of the last century has come from pairs of writers and performers working intimately together – George and Ira Gershwin. Lennon and McCartney. Simon and Garfunkel. But music, like software, often seeks to deliver work at a larger scale and with more complexity than a single, self-organising team can manage. And seeks to do so with unpredictable skill levels of the performers. What lessons can music teach us about the problems and potential workarounds of scaled delivery of creative work? -- Main style is a lecture, but there is live musical performance, some involving the attendees. The session has distinct setup requirements for sound in the room, and really needs to be scheduled straight after a break (or at least a break in that room) for setup.
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