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In order to escape the common traps of software development, teams and managers need to understand the consequences of their decisions - they need to understand the dynamics of software engineering. This is not an easy task and we need solid help. We need maths!
In this talk I explore a few equations that describe dynamics in software engineering, which can help us see the forest from the trees. I also cover some modern practices - and show how software engineers can get back control of their delivery.
The problems addressed include:
- Deadlocked by Dependencies: Inability to deliver due to waiting on something
- Code-Degeneration: Code changes become more difficult over time
- Congestion: Slow, unpredictable delivery even though we are very busy
- Firefighting: We know what we should do, but we don’t have time to improve