Talk: US Marines, Agile and heuristics

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Title:	US Marines, Agile and heuristics
Short synopsis:	Services and software development are inherently complex in nature. For such complex problems there are no recipes for success that can be followed. US Marines rely on heuristics when the original battle plan breaks down, such as “capture the high ground, stay in touch and keep moving”. Can we use a similar set of heuristics in our Agile deliveries? A heuristic is anything that provides a plausible aid or direction in the solution of a problem. They can produce accurate decisions by exploiting the structures of information in the environments they are applied. Join me to explore how underpinned by Agile principles and practices we can create a set of heuristics that can be used to create a delivery foundation. Max size: 500 chars
Long synopsis (optional):	This talk is about helping software practitioners to make decisions in software delivery under the constrains of limited time and knowledge. It proposes the use of heuristics to solve this problem - equipping the practitioners with a toolbox of fast and frugal software delivery heuristics. The through line of talk is: - start by asking 'why do projects fail?' - highlight that we are constantly under pressure to make decisions in software under the constraint of time and knowledge - introduce the concepts of heuristics - introduce the concept of an Agile Adaptive toolbox of heuristic based on the work of Gerd Gigerenzer - placing the toolbox on context of Cynefin/context - finishing with inviting practitioners to build their own toolbox of heuristics Max size: 5000 chars
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