GOTO Night with Fred George on Going Faster with Microservices, Lean Startup &Co

We will team up again with the GOTO Night Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/GOTO-Nights-Amsterdam/events/248659818/) and present one of the early discoverers of Microservices, Fred George.

Costs: Free of charge
Speakers: Fred George
Food & refreshments included

Schedule
18:00 Welcome & Food
18:30 Short Intro
18:45 Fred George
19:45 Ending with beers

Talk Abstract: Go Faster

The industry is replete with fresh topics: DevOps, Cloud Computing, MicroServices, Lean Startup, Fullstack Developers, Agile Variations, and the like. Having seen all these at conferences, there is an emerging theme around all these topics: Go Faster. Going faster is an old theme; I have heard it for over four decades. But the business incentives for it are more powerful than ever because competitors have become unfettered from traditional barriers:

• Massive, free application frameworks replace expensive vendor packages
• On demand computing replaces expensive, preplanned machine installations
• Worldwide access to customers through social networks replaces dedicated sales teams So either you go faster, or a competitor will emerge who is faster.

In this presentation, I identify three categories of inhibitors, and suggest mitigation strategies I have employed for each one:

• Technology inhibitors, whether dealing with legacy languages, tools, or architectures,
• Process inhibitors, particularly daunting as shifts to faster processes run counter to the “tried and true” processes inherent in the organization, and
• Organization inhibitors as we shake off the time consuming waterfall structures.

Embracing the technology change is not sufficient. Going faster can be crippled if supporting IT processes are not implemented. We wrap up by addressing the impact to roles and responsibilities, a challenging and key aspect of going faster. We will delve into some detail on an implementation in a large, traditional business

Fred George
Fred George is an industry consultant, and has been writing code for nearly 50 years in (by his count) over 75 languages. He has delivered projects and products across his career, and in the last decade alone, has worked in the US, India, China, and the UK. He started ThoughtWorksUniversity in Bangalore, India, based on a commercial programming training program he developed in the 90’s. An early adopter of OO and Agile, Fred continues to impact the industry with his leading-edge ideas, most recently advocating MicroService Architectures and flat team structures (under the moniker of Programmer Anarchy). He travels the globe speaking and consulting on these topics. Oh, and he still writes code!