Talk: Oh, come on, it doesn't have to be that hard
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Peter Pito
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Oh, come on, it doesn't have to be that hard
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Kanban, Scrum, SAFe; Story Points, Velocity, Throughput, Burnup, Burndown, Iterate, Sprint, Retrospective; certification, consultancy, craftsmanship; scale or not to scale. You hear it at a conference, read it on blogs, your peers will tell you that everyone is doomed, that it is hard, that no-one does it right. Can it be just a bit simpler? Are we making our life much harder than it should be? Is there a natural, simpler way to build software? This talk is not a method talk. This is not a talk that says, "do these things and you'll be successful". This talk is about sharing some of my experiences, showing that if we don't overcomplicate matters we could all have an easier life. After all, life is hard enough without us over-complicating it ...
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As it says in the short description, maybe we're overcomplicating matters. The talk will draw on some of major central Government projects that I've been part of. We kept things simple, we applied a lot of common sense, we've measured our work, we haven't estimated, we realised that delivering working features to production is important and not that hard. We made sense of our world and acted according to the levels of complexity of the problems we had to deal with. We delivered successfully. But more importantly, I feel that at any conference I go, everyone makes it out that we can not be successful, that is it too hard, that we're all doomed. Maybe, at times doesn't have to be that hard.
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