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Simple Made Easy [Software Design, Functional, Architecture, Inspirational, Architecture patterns, Scalability] [Duration: 61:00] Great talk and a good excuse to study functional programming.

Donald Reinertsen

The Logic of Flow: Some Indispensable Concepts [Lean Product Management, Product] [Duration: 33:00] This talk explores key concepts and mathematical principles behind achieving flow in processes, like product development, drawing parallels to flow dynamics in traffic and internet systems. Don Reinertsen explains the economics of queuing, batch size reduction, and fast feedback loops, highlighting their impact on cycle time and overall process efficiency.
Second Generation Lean Product Development Flow [Product, Product Strategy, Lean Product Management, Lean, Mental models] [Duration: 87:00] An introduction to Lean Product Development Flow given by Don Reinertsen at Adventures with Agile in London. This talk is a must to understand modern product development (Flow, uncertainty, Little's law, cost of delay, the value of feedback, queues, batch size, etc).

Mary Poppendieck

Six Decades of Software Engineering [Lean Software Development, Engineering Culture, Agile, Devops] [Duration: 83:00] Great talk with the evolution of our field from a lean perspective. Great insights about the engineering role, agile, the current painful division between business and development, how we can think about complex systems, the failure of having proxy roles as the product owner, etc... Great talk, lot of computer and development history, and great Q&A session. Slides:
Competing On The Basis Of Speed [Lean Software Development, Engineering Culture, Lean Product Management] [Duration: 60:00] Optimizing for speed, flow, and waste reduction. Lean Software Development

J.B. Rainsberger

Integrated Tests Are A Scam [testing, Technical Practices] [Duration: 64:00] Integrated tests are a scam. You’re probably writing 2-5% of the integrated tests you need to test thoroughly. You’re probably duplicating unit tests all over the place. Your integrated tests probably duplicate each other all over the place. When an integrated test fails, who knows what’s broken? Integrated tests probably do you more harm than good. Learn the two-pronged attack that solves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests.
7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development [Agile, Software Design, XP] [Duration: 07:00] Short excellent talk (7:26') that distilled the essence of software development and agile development. Essential. A must.

John Cutler

Product Tank Madrid: Focus on Impact with John Cutler - World Product Day 2020 [Product] [Duration: 65:00] Excellent talk. John presents all the learnings he had during the last three years, using his great article as a starting point (). Lots of knowledge and tips to introduce product thinking.
Creating Value and Flow in Product Development [Product, Engineering Culture, Teams, Agile, Lean Software Development, Lean] [Duration: 07:00] John Cutler, Product Evangelist at Amplitude explains why most of a product developers time is spent waiting and how limiting work in progress, the scope of work and handoffs can increase flow and value.

James Shore

YOW! 2019 Evolutionary Design Animated (Part1) [Engineering Culture, Agile, XP, Evolutionary Design, Software Design] [Duration: 24:00] Modern software development welcomes changing requirements, even late in the process, but how can we write our software so that those changes don’t create a mess? Evolutionary design is the key. It’s a technique that emerges from Extreme Programming, the method that brought us test-driven development, merciless refactoring, and continuous integration. James Shore first encountered Extreme Programming and evolutionary design nearly 20 years ago. Initially skeptical, he’s explored its boundaries ever since. In this session, James will share what he’s learned through in-depth animations of real software projects. You’ll see how designs evolve over time and you’ll learn how and when to use evolutionary design for your own projects. Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZCF8jfeMc
YOW! 2019 Evolutionary Design Animated (Part2) [Engineering Culture, Agile, XP, Evolutionary Design, Software Design] [Duration: 24:00] The second part of this great talk. Part1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtBRvsez8DI

Sandro Mancuso

Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code [XP, Refactoring, Technical Practices, Evolutionary Design] [Duration: 89:00] In this live coding session, Sandro will present many techniques that will help you to efficiently retrofit tests to legacy code and then refactor it to show the business logic more clearly.
A Case for Outside-In Design [Architecture, Product, DDD, OOP] [Duration: 51:00] another version (NEWCRAFTS Conferences Paris). A very interesting for any developer, product manager o business person. Technics to understand the whole picture for a system and help to define the design from the outside. A good approach for domain modeling.

Greg Young

Keynote: 8 Lines of Code [Inspirational, Design] [Duration: 45:00] Interesting talk to understand some concepts about simplicity and hiden accidental complexity.
The art of destroying software [Inspirational, Evolutionary Architecture, Evolutionary Design] [Duration: 42:00] Some good points about the easy evolution of a system when the services are small enough to be understandables and to be rewritten without fear.

Other speakers

Keynote: Creating a Holistic Developer Experience (Jasmine James) [Devex, Developer Productivity] [Duration: 15:00] Great talk to understand what is development experience.
DOES14 On the Care and Feeding of Feedback Cycles (Elisabeth Hendrickson) [Quality, Devops, Continuous Delivery, Inspirational, Feedback cycles] [Duration: 31:00] This talk examines the many forms of feedback, the questions each can answer, and the risks each can mitigate. Agile practices involve testing early and often. However feedback comes in many forms, only some of which are traditionally considered testing. Continuous integration, acceptance testing with users, even cohort analysis to validate business hypotheses are all examples of feedback cycles.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB (CMY304) (Alex DeBrie) [Scalability, Technical Practices, Architecture, Software Design, Serverless, Technology] [Duration: 39:00] Modeling your data in the DynamoDB database structure requires a different approach from modeling in traditional relational databases. Alex DeBrie has written a number of applications using DynamoDB and is the creator of DynamoDBGuide.com, a free resource for learning DynamoDB
The Power of an Agile Mindset (Linda Rising) [Agile, Inspirational] [Duration: 58:00] Very good talk about the "Agile" mindset (aka experimentation or growth mindset)
Boundaries (Gary Bernhardt) [Software Design, Architecture, Architecture patterns, Evolutionary Design] [Duration: 30:00] An exploration of the boundaries between pieces of code, including: isolated testing, behavior vs. data, mutation vs. immutability, how data shape affords parallelism, transforming interface dependencies into data dependencies, and what a system optimizing each of these for natural isolation might look like.
LISA17 - Scalability Is Quantifiable: The Universal Scalability Law (Baron Schwartz) [Scalability, Performance, Architecture] [Duration: 29:00] Do you know what scalability really is? It's a mathematical function that's simple, precise, and useful. REALLY useful. It describes the relationship between system performance and load. In this talk you'll learn the function (the Universal Scalability Law), how it describes and predicts system behavior you see every day, and how to use it in practice. I'll show you how to understand the function, how to capture the data you need to measure your own system's behavior (you probably already have that), and how to analyze the data with the USL. You'll leave this talk knowing exactly what scalability is and what causes non-linear scaling. There are two factors, and you'll start seeing those everywhere, too. As a result, when systems don't scale you'll know what kind of problem to look for, and you'll avoid building bottlenecks into your systems in the first place. Final note: this talk requires zero mathematical skill.
DOES17 London - The Key to High Performance What the Data Says (Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Nigel Kersten) [Devops, Inspirational, Engineering Culture, Engineering productivity] [Duration: 31:00] This talk presents the findings of the 2017 State of DevOps Report, emphasizing that high-performing organizations achieve both better throughput and stability. It explores how transformational leadership, technical practices, and lean product management contribute to IT and organizational performance.
DOES17 London - The Key to High Performance What the Data Says (Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Nigel Kersten) [Devops, Inspirational, Engineering Culture, Engineering productivity] [Duration: 31:00] This talk presents the findings of the 2017 State of DevOps Report, emphasizing that high-performing organizations achieve both better throughput and stability. It explores how transformational leadership, technical practices, and lean product management contribute to IT and organizational performance.
Sufficiently Advanced Monitoring is Indistinguishable from Testing (Ed Keyes) [Technical Practices, testing, Testing in production] [Duration: 05:00] Interesting ideas about testing in production.
Technical leadership and glue work (Tanya Reilly) [Engineering Culture, Management, Inspirational, Engineering Career] [Duration: 28:00] Let's talk about how to allocate glue work deliberately, frame it usefully and make sure that everyone is choosing a career path they actually want to be on.
Continuous Delivery and the Theory of Constraints (Steve Smith) [Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture, Architecture, Technical Practices] [Duration: 44:00] In this talk, Steve Smith will explain how easy it is for a Continuous Delivery programme to be unsuccessful, how the Theory Of Constraints works, how to apply the Five Focussing Steps to Continuous Delivery, and how to home in on the constrained activities that are your keys to success. It includes tales of glorious failures and ignominious successes when adopting Continuous Delivery.
Debt Metaphor (Ward Cunningham) [XP, Technical Practices, Technology Strategy, Inspirational] [Duration: 05:00] Ward Cunningham reflects on the history, motivation and common misunderstanding of the "debt metaphor" as motivation for refactoring.
Evolutionary Architecture (Rebecca Parsons) [Architecture, Evolutionary Architecture] This talk is a great introduction to the topic.
The future of software engineering (Grady Booch) [Inspirational, Engineering Culture, AI] [Duration: 69:00] Interesting journey through the history of our profession and some predictions about the future with one of the main protagonists (Grady Booch). Very interesting, both the talk and the subsequent questions.
Architecture for Flow with Wardley Mapping, DDD, and Team Topologies (Susanne Kaiser) [Technology Strategy, Engineering Culture, DDD, Wardley maps, team topologies] [Duration: 43:00] This talk illustrates the concepts, connects the dots between DDD, Wardley mapping and team topologies, and demonstrates how these techniques help to evolve a fictitious legacy system for a fast flow of change.
Eric Ries: The Science of Lean Startups (Eric Ries) [Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, Inspirational] [Duration: 58:00] I believe this is the best talk I have heard from Eric about the ideas of Lean Startup. It is also very enlightening to see how one of the fundamental pieces is continuous deployment and the engineering practices he uses. Essential.
The subtle difference between a constraint and a bottleneck (Theory of Constraints) (Chris Hohmann) [Lean, TOC] [Duration: 03:00] Excellent 3-minute video explains the subtle difference between a constraint and a bottleneck in the Theory of Constraints (and, therefore, where to put the focus.)
Escaping the Build Trap (Melissa Perri) [Product, Product Discovery, Product Strategy] [Duration: 26:00] Mind the Product San Francisco 2017. A classic one to escape from the feature factory mindset.
From Kubernetes to PaaS to ... Err, What's Next? (Daniel Bryant) [Platform, Platform as a product, Devex, Developer Productivity] [Duration: 31:00] In this talk Daniel reviews his experience in building platforms, both as an end user and now as part of an organization that helps our clients do the same. She discusses topics such as DevEx, UX, workflows, available tools, etc.
Reboot Your Team (Christina Wodtke) [Engineering Culture, Teams, Product, Product Team] [Duration: 32:00] Christina told us how to reboot the team you have, or build a healthy one from the ground up.
Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing (Tom Limoncelli) [Cloud, Operations, Technical Practices, Architecture, Devops] [Duration: 64:00] Tom highlights radical ideas from _The Practice of Cloud System Administration_ on embracing failure to build resilient distributed systems, focusing on economic resiliency, performing risky procedures frequently, and creating a blameless culture.
Artificial Intelligence seen from the software development lifecycle perspective (Nerea Luis) [MLOps, AI] [Duration: 54:00] Great introduction to the differences between traditional software development and the development cycle with AI models. Nerea introduces concepts such as Continuous training, model deployment, MLOps, and collaboration between data scientists and software engineers. Highly recommended for software engineers looking to delve into these topics and collaborate more closely on AI-based feature development.
Reliable Messaging Without Distributed Transactions (Udi Dahan) [Architecture patterns, Software Design] [Duration: 16:00] Particular CEO, Udi Dahan, describes how you can still do reliable messaging without using distributed transactions
Monolith Decomposition Patterns (Sam Newman) [DDD, Microservices, Architecture patterns] [Duration: 49:00] Sam Newman shares some key principles and a number of patterns to use to incrementally decompose an existing system into microservices. He covers patterns that can work to migrate functionality out of systems hard to change, and looks at the use of strangler patterns, change data capture, database decomposition and more.
TDD, where did it all go wrong (Ian Cooper) [tdd, testing, Technical Practices] [Duration: 61:00] Essential talk about how to do TDD in an efficient way and getting a battery of tests that support continuous refactoring. It fundamentally changed my approach to TDD. I highly recommend it.
Enterprise Architecture = Architecting the Enterprise? (Gregor Hohpe) [Architecture, Architecture patterns, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 61:00] This session takes a serious but light-hearted look at the role of enterprise architects in modern IT organizations.
JavaZone 2019, Room 5 - Survival Tips For Women in Tech (Patricia Aas) [Culture, Inspirational] Essential talk especially to open our eyes to privileged people like me (white male in tech).
Foundations of Modern Product Organizations (Gerard Chiva) [Product, Lean Product Management, leadership, Company Culture] [Duration: 41:00] This talk explains the keys to the success of digital product organizations. Technology is an essential part of any business today, not just a cost center.
Simplifying The Inventory Management Systems at the World’s Largest Retailer Using Functional Programming Principles (Scott Havens, Gene Kim) [Architecture, Architecture patterns, Functional, Technical leadership, Technology Strategy] [Duration: 122:00] Havens shares his views on what makes great architecture great. He details what happened when an API call required 23 other synchronous procedures calls to return a correct answer. He discusses the challenges of managing inventory at Walmart, how one implements event sourcing patterns on that scale, and the functional programming principles that it depends upon. Lastly, he talks about how much category theory you need to know to do functional programming and considerations when creating code in complex systems. It is recommended to first watch the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5S3hScE6dU or listen to the podcast https://itrevolution.com/the-idealcast-episode-22/
Simplifying The Inventory Management Systems at the World’s Largest Retailer Using Functional Programming Principles (Scott Havens, Gene Kim) [Architecture, Architecture patterns, Functional, Technical leadership, Technology Strategy] [Duration: 122:00] Havens shares his views on what makes great architecture great. He details what happened when an API call required 23 other synchronous procedures calls to return a correct answer. He discusses the challenges of managing inventory at Walmart, how one implements event sourcing patterns on that scale, and the functional programming principles that it depends upon. Lastly, he talks about how much category theory you need to know to do functional programming and considerations when creating code in complex systems. It is recommended to first watch the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5S3hScE6dU or listen to the podcast https://itrevolution.com/the-idealcast-episode-22/
The puzzle of motivation (Dan Pink) [Inspirational, Management] [Duration: 18:00] Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think.
Building DevX Teams, my story (Cirpo Cinelli) [Devex, Developer Productivity, Teams] [Duration: 42:00] In this presentation, Cirpo talks about his past 4 years of experience setting up a DevX team from scratch, the main challenges, the pain, the gain, and the lessons learned.
Platforms at Twilio: Unlocking Developer Effectiveness (Justin Kitigawa) [Platform, Platform as a product, Devops, Developer Productivity, Devex] [Duration: 50:00] Learn how Twilio’s internal Platform has evolved to reduce their engineers' cognitive load by providing a unified self-service, declarative platform to build, deliver, and run the thousands of global microservices that make up Twilio.
Continuous Integration: That’s Not What They Meant (Clare Sudbery) [Technical Practices, XP, CI, Trunk Based Development] [Duration: 56:00] Very good talk about the benefits of using Trunk Based Development (or in other words, the practice of CI as it was originally created).
Lean Agile Brighton 2019 - Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones (Simon Wardley) [Inspirational, Technology Strategy, Product Strategy, Strategy] [Duration: 65:00] Simon has given this talk several times, in which he presents Wardley maps and how to use them to help with strategy. I particularly like this version because it uses very good examples, including one about when to use Agile development or Lean ideas. Very instructive.
Stop Writing Dead Programs (Jack Rusher) [Inspirational] [Duration: 43:00] This talk argues that it would be better to focus on building new live programming environments that can help us solve the problems of the future.
Queueing Theory in Practice: Performance Modeling for the Working Engineer (Eben Freeman) [Architecture, Scalability, Performance, Software Design] [Duration: 45:00] Cloud! Autoscaling! Kubernetes! Etc! In theory, it's easier than ever to scale a service based on variable demand. In practice, it's still hard to take observed metrics, and translate them into quantitative predictions about what will happen to service performance as load changes. Resource limits are often chosen by guesstimation, and teams are likely to find themselves reacting to slowdowns and bottlenecks, rather than anticipating them. Queueing theory can help, by treating large-scale software systems as mathematical models that you can rigorously reason about. But it's not necessarily easy to translate between real-world systems and textbook models. This talk will cover practical techniques for turning operational data into actionable predictions. We'll show how to use the Universal Scalability Law to develop a model of system performance, and how to leverage that model to make more informed capacity planning and architectural decisions. We'll discuss what data to gather in production to better inform its predictions -- for example, why it's important to capture the shape of a latency distribution, and not just a few percentiles. We'll also talk about some of the limitations and pitfalls of performance modelling.
Simon Sinek Performance vs Trust (Simon Sinek) [Inspirational, Culture, Company Culture] [Duration: 02:00] Great description of the impact of trust on team members and leaders.
Living Domain Model: Continuous Refactoring to Accelerate Delivery (Younes Zeriahi) [Refactoring, Technical Practices, Legacy code] [Duration: 47:00] Useful talk for anyway working with legacy complex systems. Younes Zeriahi shares practical examples and techniques for refactoring code in a way that accelerates delivery and improves the overall design, using concepts like Mikado, expand and contract, and Chesterton's Fence. He also highlights the importance of a strong test suite and a deep understanding of the domain for effective refactoring.
GOTO 2020 • Modern Continuous Delivery (Ken Mugrage) [Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 19:00] Great description of a Continuous Delivery process.
The Art of Simplicity by Venkat Subramaniam (Venkat Subramaniam) [Software Design, simplicity] [Duration: 54:00] vJUG KeyNote. A great complementary talk to my talk Simplicidad para desarrolladores (Spanish)
SLO TheoryWhy the Business needs SLOs (Danyel Fisher, Nathen Harvey) [Technical Practices, Observability, Operations] [Duration: 38:00] Great explanation about SLI, SLOs, error budgets and how to introduce them to improve our production operations.
SLO TheoryWhy the Business needs SLOs (Danyel Fisher, Nathen Harvey) [Technical Practices, Observability, Operations] [Duration: 38:00] Great explanation about SLI, SLOs, error budgets and how to introduce them to improve our production operations.
Inside-Out TDDDD (Amitai Schleier) [XP, testing, Technical Practices, Inspirational] [Duration: 60:00] Talk about joy and humanity in software development. The talk was primarily concerned with the effects of software craft on our emotional states and working relationships. Along the way, Amitai touched on Theory of Constraints, stable and unstable equilibria in work environments, a significant and deliberate omission from Scrum, my take on “legacy code”, applied empathy (never mentioned explicitly, merely woven in), and what agility looks and feels like when you’ve got it.
Nordstrom Innovation Lab (nordstrominnovationlab) [Lean Product Management, Product Discovery, Product, Inspirational] [Duration: 06:00] The Nordstrom Innovation Lab team uses a flash build to develop an iPad app for sunglass selection, incorporating real-time customer feedback. The team's agile process allows for rapid adaptation and feature implementation throughout the week, resulting in a functional app.
The Limited Red Society (Joshua Kerievsky) [Agile, Technical Practices, XP, Continuous Delivery] [Duration: 58:00] Joshua Kerievsky discusses the need to reduce “red” periods of time while developing software. One is in the red when he spends too much time designing, or having compilation errors or the tests do not pass. Kerievsky demonstrates a method (Parallel Change) of reducing the red while refactoring code, and discusses another approach called Narrowed Change, and answers refactoring related questions.
Driving a Tech-led Reimagination of eBay Through DevOps (US 2021) (Randy Shoup, Mark Weinberg) [Devops, Technical leadership] [Duration: 33:00] A very interesting session about eBay's strategy to improve delivery performance. A great example of engineering leadership.
Many More Much Smaller Steps with GeePaw Hill (GeePaw Hill, Chris Lucian, Austin Chadwick) [Software Design, Lean Software Development, XP, Technical Practices, Evolutionary Design] [Duration: 39:00] Good conversation about GeePaw Hill's software development approach based on taking continuous small safe steps (Many More Much Smaller Steps).
Many More Much Smaller Steps with GeePaw Hill (GeePaw Hill, Chris Lucian, Austin Chadwick) [Software Design, Lean Software Development, XP, Technical Practices, Evolutionary Design] [Duration: 39:00] Good conversation about GeePaw Hill's software development approach based on taking continuous small safe steps (Many More Much Smaller Steps).
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School (Diana Hu) [Inspirational, startup, Lean Software Development, Lean Startup] [Duration: 28:00] Diana Hu shares her advice for being a technical founder at the earliest stages - including topics like how to ship an MVP fast, how to deal with technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire an engineering team.
GOTO 2020 • Talking With Tech Leads (Patrick Kua) [leadership, Technical leadership, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 35:00] Practical tips to be a successful Tech Lead. Very interesting for anyone interested in a leadership role for an engineering team.
Production - Designing for Testability (Michael Bryzek) [testing, Testing in production, Devops, Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 50:00] Michael Bryzek explores what it’s like to build quality software with no development, QA, or staging environments. He includes a deep dive into “verification in production” and what it really takes to build software that can safely be tested continuously in production.
Adam Ralph - Finding your service boundaries — a practical guide - SCBCN 24 (Adam Ralph) [Architecture, Architecture patterns, Microservices] [Duration: 48:00] This presentation is about identifying service boundaries in software architecture to avoid coupling and ending up with a "big ball of mud", even when using microservices. I recommend this talk because it provides practical advice on how to define services as technical authorities for specific business capabilities, leading to more maintainable and scalable systems.
Stop starting and start finishing (Jason Yip) [Lean, WIP, Flow, TOC] [Duration: 05:00] Great explanation about Lean concepts (Limit WIP, class of services, Root cause analysis...)
The Efficiency Paradox (Niklas Modig) [Agile, Lean Software Development, Inspirational, Company Culture, Lean, Flow] [Duration: 18:00] The best explanation I know about resource efficiency vs flow efficiency, the base of Lean.
GOTO 2020 • Advanced Feature Flagging: It's All About The Data (Dave Karow) [Continuous Delivery, Product, Engineering Culture, Product Discovery] [Duration: 16:00] A great talk on one of the fundamental techniques for making product discovery and continuous release. Excellent information about how to use them, define experiments, and interpret results.
Product Strategy is About Saying No (Des Traynor) [Product] [Duration: 07:00] Why Product strategy is mostly about saying no. Funny, short, thought-provoking and actionable. Imprescindible.
KEYNOTE Designing change (Jessica Kerr, Avdi Grimm) [Inspirational, Software Design, Architecture, Evolutionary Design, Agile] [Duration: 48:00] The journey of a software developer is a climb through abstraction: algorithms, patterns, architecture.... How do we keep expanding scope, without losing focus on the real work? Join us for a journey into the fourth dimension, where we don't just change code; we design change.
AWS re:Invent 2018: Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small ARC337 (Colm MacCárthaigh) [Platform, Scalability, Architecture patterns, Software Design] [Duration: 58:00] Whether it’s distributing configurations and customer settings, launching instances, or responding to surges in load, having a great control plane is key to the success of any system or service. Come hear about the techniques we use to build stable and scalable control planes at Amazon. We dive deep into the designs that power the most reliable systems at AWS. We share hard-earned operational lessons and explain academic control theory in easy-to-apply patterns and principles that are immediately useful in your own designs. A must to learn how to design Control Panels.
Operations: The Last Mile (Damon Edwards) [Operations, Devops, Engineering Culture, Inspirational] [Duration: 30:00] This talk is not only very funny, it is also a great description of the problems generated by a "classic" operations mindset and how to change to a modern approach / devops.
Reduce Alerting Noise with One Weird Trick (Liz Fong-Jones) [Observability, Technical Practices] [Duration: 10:00] A great and concise description of SLI/SLOs and how to use them to improve our lives.
The Technical Debt Trap (Doc Norton) [Technical Practices, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 53:00] What is technical debt? What is not technical debt? Why should we care? What is the cost of misunderstanding? What do we do about it? Doc discusses the origins of the metaphor, what it means today, and how we properly identify and manage technical debt.
Product Management for Continuous Delivery (Elizabeth Ayer) [Product, Lean Product Management, Continuous Delivery] [Duration: 40:00] This presentation explains how Continuous Delivery is very beneficial for excellent product management and growing a customer-focus team. CD enables closing the loop for each product increment, getting feedback, making decisions, and punting the focus on the impact generated (and not creating more and more features).
Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet (Alan Kay) [Nature of Software Development, Engineering Culture, Inspirational, OOP, Software Design, Evolutionary Design] [Duration: 64:00] Classic presentation by Alan Kay talks about the nature of software, the design that systems should have, scalability, and how, to some extent, we could compare it to how biological systems work. Many of the ideas behind Smalltalk can be identified in the talk.. Inspirational.
Agile as if you meant it (Maaret Pyhäjärvi) [Agile, Product, Product Strategy, Lean Product Management, Teams] [Duration: 55:00] A good example of what Modern Agile looks like. Customer-focused team, with direct contact with the customer and without a proxy. Very interesting. It reminds me a lot of the way I used to work at [@AleaSolucionesS](https://twitter.com/AleaSolucionesS) and at TheMotion ([@HoneyBadgersDev](https://twitter.com/HoneyBadgersDev)).