Johannes Brodvall
Johannes Brodwall is a software developer, architect and agile coach who works as chief scientist at Steria Norway. He has been practicing agile software development for the better part of the last ten years and is organizing agile user groups and conferences in Oslo. His two main passions in software development is practicing coding katas alone or with others to hone his programming skills and finding patterns to split large, seemingly unsplittable projects into smaller chunks. He is working on a collection of patterns on Agile Release Strategies together with Niklas Björnerstedt at http://wiki.cantara.no/display/ARS/.
He blogs at http://johannesbrodwall.com and http://sterkblanding.no
Track abstract - Room G1 - Developer effectiveness
Fearless Improvement: How to take one step at a time
When you want to cross difficult terrain, you want to make sure that one foot is stable before you move the other. So also with software development.
When practicing an incremental approach to design and architecture, I often find the need to change a simple design into a more advanced one. In the first part of the talk, I will demonstrate how practice helps me find safe ways to execute this change.
We are faced with similar challenges at the product level. In the second part of the talk, I will demonstrate how the same principles allow a software project to release frequently, even in the face of lots of historical baggage.
