How Agile Failed at the BBC and the FBI | Gojko Adzic In The Engineering Room Ep. 3
734In this episode, Dave Farley chats with Gojko Adzic. Gojko is a prolific author, international speaker on software and expert practitioner in DDD, BDD and an AWS Serverless Hero. Dave and Gojko chat about a wide-ranging series of topics on product development, steering development organisations to success, Palchinsky principles and how agile development failed for the FBI and the BBC. It’s a fun episode! ( ➡️ https://gojko.net)
Welcome to "The Engineering Room", a series of wide-ranging conversations with thought-leaders from the software engineering industry. This is a new mini-series of additional content on the Continuous Delivery Channel.
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LINKS:
Gojko's new text-to-speech video maker ➡️ https://www.narakeet.com
MindMup - MindMapping tools ➡️ https://www.mindmup.com
PAPERS/ARTICLES:
Why FBI cannot build a case management system ➡️ https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/06/mco2012060073-abs.html
At the BBC, Agile means 'making it up as we go along' ➡️ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/10/nao_bbc_projects_agile/
Shades of blue at Google:
1️⃣ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/05/why-google-engineers-designers
2️⃣ https://www.cnet.com/news/google-designer-leaves-blaming-data-centrism/
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CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro
03:28 How to start something new
05:03 “Behaviour-change” is an incremental indicator of direction
06:00 Agile development as cause of multi-million pound loss at BBC
10:18 “Impact Mapping” and steering product direction
12:28 Finding a route to a solution
13:50 “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”
17:50 Organise work as a series of Experiments
22:30 Identifying the right things to measure
26:29 It’s tough to stop bad ideas - “Lockheed Martin has better lawyers than the FBI”
32:00 Palchinski Principles - Agile thinking 100 years ago
37:30 Humans vs Computers
42:11 Is “Observability” just good monitoring?
46:47 The Netflix “Canary Index”
47:24 Impact of the Cloud - A two-person company with millions of users
51:04 Why is the cloud so difficult for big businesses?
57:14 The importance of the “protocol” in design
59:32 Cloud - Raising the level of abstraction
1:03:20 Cloud - Elastic scalability for (almost) free - “15,000 Russian teachers”
1:11:16 Event-driven systems & Actors