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• Six Decades of Software Engineering (Mary Poppendieck) [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:
• The Value of Flow 14 09 17 (Dan North) [Agile, Flow, Continuous Delivery, Lean Software Development] [Duration: 27:00] Great explanation for flow efficiency for software delivery
• The resource utilization trap (Henrik Kniberg) [Lean, WIP, Flow] [Duration: 05:00] Henrik Kniberg explains the resource utilization trap, how it impacts our ability to deliver and what we can do about it.
• Multiple WIP vs One Piece Flow Example (Henrik Kniberg) [Lean, WIP, Flow] [Duration: 07:00] Brilliant explanation of the concept of WIP and how limiting it improves delivery flow.
• Competing On The Basis Of Speed (Mary Poppendieck) [Lean Software Development, Engineering Culture, Lean Product Management] [Duration: 60:00] Optimizing for speed, flow, and waste reduction. Lean Software Development
• Patterns of Effective Delivery (Dan North) [Inspirational, Engineering Culture, Agile] [Duration: 59:00] This talk explores patterns of effective software delivery, emphasizing that delivery means solving problems, not just writing code, and focusing on optimizing for the right outcomes rather than just process
• 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...)

• Sufficiently Advanced Monitoring is Indistinguishable from Testing (Ed Keyes) [Technical Practices, testing, Testing in production] [Duration: 05:00] Interesting ideas about testing in production.
• Integrated Tests Are A Scam (J.B. Rainsberger) [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.
• Yes, I Test in Production (And So Do You) (Charity Majors) [Testing in production, testing] A great talk about the need for testing in production and the approach we can use.
• Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code (Sandro Mancuso) [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.
• 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.
• Oredev 2011: Sleeping with the enemy (Gojko Adzic) [testing, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 52:00] Gojko Adzic describes why independent testing should be a thing of the past. He explains how testers engaging with developers and business users create opportunities to accomplish things they cannot do otherwise.
• Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing (Sandi Metz) [testing, XP, Technical Practices, Agile] [Duration: 32:00] This talk strips away the veil and offers simple, practical guidelines for choosing what to test and how to test it. Finding the right testing balance isn't magic, it's a magic trick; come and learn the secret of writing stable tests that protect your application at the lowest possible cost.

• Snow White and the 777.777.777 Dwarfs (Gojko Adzic) [Product, Agile, Cloud, Inspirational, Technology Strategy] [Duration: 45:00] Great talks about how cloud is changing the risk profile of our application and the software quality practices.
• Digital Transformation (Adrian Cockcroft) [Engineering Culture, Cloud, Scalability, Technology Strategy] [Duration: 14:00] A good summary of how accelerating the iteration pace is fundamental for innovation and how the cloud can help with it.
• Velocity and Volume or Speed Wins (Adrian Cockcroft) [Cloud, Scalability, Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture, Architecture, Devops] [Duration: 36:00] A classic talk to understand how to leverage the cloud, continuous delivery and devops to create modern web-scale systems.
• 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.
• 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.
• Speeding Up Innovation (Adrian Cockcroft) [Cloud, Architecture, Inspirational, Technology Strategy, Devops] [Duration: 42:00] Interesting talk about how to use the cloud and how it enables innovation.

• Keynote: Creating a Holistic Developer Experience (Jasmine James) [Devex, Developer Productivity] [Duration: 15:00] Great talk to understand what is development experience.
• 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.
• Full Cycle Developers @Netflix (Greg Burrell) [Devops, Operations, Architecture, Engineering Culture, Management] [Duration: 50:00] Greg Burrell presents Netflix's journey from siloed teams to their Full Cycle Developer model for building and operating their services at Netflix. He discusses the various approaches they've tried, the motivations that pushed them to keep evolving, and the lessons learned along the way.
• 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.

• 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)
• Beyond Developer (Dan North) [Inspirational, Agile, Engineering Culture, Company Culture] [Duration: 43:00] The modern developer needs to be constantly reinventing themselves, learning, and helping others to do the same. In this session, Dan explores some of the skills and characteristics of the modern developer, and suggests some ways you can grow them for yourself.
• Creating Value and Flow in Product Development (John Cutler) [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.
• 7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development (J.B. Rainsberger) [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.
• AgileByExample 2016: Henrik Kniberg - Keynote - Focus (or Stop Starting, Start Finishing) (Henrik Kniberg) [Agile, Inspirational] [Duration: 43:00] As usualy Henrik deliver a great talk that inspired me a lot.

• Make Impacts Not Software (Gojko Adzic) [Lean Software Development, Lean Product Management, Product, Product Strategy] [Duration: 51:00] An essential talk to understand how to get the most impact with the least amount of software (and thereby reduce basal cost and time to market). Highly recommended.
• Adaptive Planning Beyond User Stories (Gojko Adzic) [Lean Software Development, Lean Product Management, Product, Product Discovery] [Duration: 55:00] Gojko gives a masterclass on how to focus on impacts, understand the need, and improve product decisions. Good ideas to postpone decisions, focus on behavioral changes, and be cautious with metrics. An essential talk for any product developer.
• Beyond Features: rethinking agile software delivery (Dan North) [Agile, Inspirational, Lean, Lean Software Development] [Duration: 74:00] Maybe we've been thinking about delivery all wrong. Maybe features aren't the point after all. Maybe there are other kinds of work that we should recognise, schedule and track as first class citizens. Maybe this could take some of the uncertainty out of the delivery process, and give us back our sanity. Maybe.
• Fast-track from Idea to Impact (Gojko Adzic) [Lean Product Management, Product] [Duration: 54:00] Gojko presents very interesting examples of developments that have achieved very good impacts (by minifying the developed software). He also explains the use of the impact mapping technique, which is very useful for focusing on the impact.

• What got you here won't get you there: How your team can become a high-performing team by embracing observability (Charity Majors) [Engineering Culture, Operations, Observability] [Duration: 115:00] A ton of useful insights and ideas in this excellent Charity presentation. Great description of observability and its need in modern systems.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• Ten (Hard-Won) Lessons of the DevOps Transition (Randy Shoup) [Inspirational, Devops, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 26:00] This talk discusses the cultural change required to adopt a devops mentality. Excellent advice and warnings derived from Randy's experience leading teams at eBay, Google, and KIXEYE.
• Industry Keynote: The DevOps Transformation (Jez Humble) [Devops, leadership, Agile, Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 48:00] In this talk Jez will describe how to implement devops principles and practices, how to overcome typical obstacles, and the outcomes DevOps enables. A must-see talk.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.)
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

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