‘Engineering’ for Software - How to Amplify Creativity • Dave Farley • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph Dave Farley - Author of “Modern Software Engineering“ , Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer ABSTRACT In most disciplines “engineering“ means the stuff that works, an application of scientific reasoning to solving practical problems. In software, depending on your background, it either means something bureaucratic that doesn’t work, or it is just another name for software development. So what are the ideas that we can use as tools to give real, practical advantage in our work in the way that other disciplines achieve? What ideas should we treat as “the tools of our trade“ whatever the technology or problem before us? [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:59 What does “software engineering“ mean? 03:30 We can recreate entire systems for free! 07:47 Engineering *is* about exploration & discovery 08:15 Optimize for learning 13:41 Optimize to manage complexity 16:21 Principles of applying engineering thinking 18:41 Testability 30:47 Working experimentally 34:15 What really works? 37:19 Cycle-time 42:08 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS David Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • CD TRAINING COURSES If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley’s courses #GOTOxDaveFarley #CD #ContinuousDelivery #TDD #DaveFarley #BDD #DevOps #Testing #StateOfDevOps #StateOfDevOpsReport #Releasability #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #CDPipelines #DeploymentPipelines #ModernSoftwareEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture #complexity Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.