Tuesday, 8:30 PM EST - BEACH VIEW/BREEZE

The #remote, #nomeetings, #noestimates, #nobacklog recent trends tend to disrupt the classic approach to software development. In this talk, we explore this space also based on my own experience of working with teams to build projects that rely on all these.

Can #remote, #nomeetings, #noestimates, #nobacklog really work? What if we employ them at the same time? If we look at the open-source space, we see that we indeed can build highly successful and innovative projects while working completely remotely, rely almost exclusively on asynchronous communication, rely on no estimates and even no real backlog.

What does that mean for the enterprise? At the very least, we should accept that these are not a fad, and we should not equate them with lack of engineering. Instead, we should look at successful examples and learn from them. In this talk, we do exactly that. We go through concrete examples and observe the implications on the way we work and on the systems we can build.

About Tudor Gîrba

Tudor Gîrba (tudorgirba.com) is a software environmentalist and co-founder of feenk.com where he works with an amazing team on the Glamorous Toolkit, a novel IDE that reshapes the Development eXperience (gtoolkit.com).

He built all sorts of projects like the Moose platform for software and data analysis (moosetechnology.org), and he authored a couple of methods like humane assessment (humane-assessment.com). In 2014, he also won the prestigious Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize for his research (aito.org). This was a surprising prize as he is the only recipient that was not a university professor, even if he does hold a PhD from the University of Bern from a previous life.

These days he likes to talk about moldable development. If you want to see how much he likes that, just ask him if moldable development can fundamentally change how we approach software development.

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