How to enable organizations to go faster - Fred George

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKTtnVb83mQ)

one hacker away

someone else talking about process like my programmer anarchy

Model: Cynefin Framework

simple: eg callcenter

complex: eg payroll, taxes

complex: advertising, day trading, recommendation engines, should I loan you money

) orgs good at complicated, are bad at complex

) the complicated problems have been solved already

) the money is in complex these days

) usually, you don't know which problem you are solving

you need to see how they behave

) people have a prejudice

Trump sees everything as simple and solves them that way

Fred George likes complex

how fast can you go?

1) technology inhibitors

2) process inhibitors

3) organisation inhibitors

1) technology inhibitors

1.1) Valley Tech: bigger companies are afraid of using new open source tech

1.2) hardware lead times

-> this kills capacity planning

go buy extra

ops guys are out of a job

1.3) Services impact

result of previous curves

1.4) Incremental Applications

1.5) databases

eventbus becomes the operational database

yes: redundant data + no consistency

but excellent architecture for complex problems

) open source & docker

) functional programming

kafka = scala

rabbitmq = erlang

2) Process Inhibitors

) which type of problem? (conefyn)

=> there are no experts in complex problems

) what to build

complicated, we pushed the customer away

complex: try ideas fast

experimentation drives innovation

) rethink interactions

requirements

change the level of interaction with customer

(from task to story, from story to feature)

what are you trying to achieve

) measure what matters

people will game those metrics

tell programmers what the game is, and they will in

3) Organisational Inhibitors

) overspecialised

-> overhead of communication between specialist

fix the titles

if you want to work on the new projects, you need one of the new titles

rip out desks, and install tables

no leader as title

the person with the highest skill in the current problem, leads the team

based on social anthropology

villages < 100 ppl, never had a fulltime leader

don't shuffle the teams every new project

) more than just microservices

=> hockeystick on hockeystick