Michael Feathers

Our industry has made quite a bit of progress with regard to process and organization design, but they are still areas of active development. SAFe, LeSS, and the Spotify Model are all players in the field along with various contributions from Lean, DevOps and the CI/CD community. Most of these are solutions or frameworks, rather than attempts to represent and assess the dynamics of systems that contain both artifacts(code) and people.

In this session we will describe these dynamics (Conway's Law, Brooks Law, and a variety of ideas from complexity science) and outline ways to design your architecture, teams and process, from first principles, to have the effects you want to have.