It is a real challenge to bring an engineering team and the rest of the business onto the same page for a shared outcome. We have enough war stories of when it doesn't work out: missed deadlines, building the wrong solution, financial losses, stress and even burnout.
In a nutshell, we fail to implement the business's strategy, regardless of our technology choices. Unfortunately, it implies a failed technical solution too.
This workshop will use a conversational approach to share what worked for us and how we recognise (avoidable) traps to avoid. We will discuss tools for increasing shared understanding between business and engineering, ways to make engineering decisions understandable to non-technical collaborators, and how to adapt to changes that come from shifts in business and engineering.
We will work in one or more groups on a case study of an actual company that succeeded in closing the gap. At some point, you will get to interact (online) with the company's CEO, that lived through the transition. At the end of the workshop, you will have some tools, principles and inspiration to make a meaningful start to close the gap in your organisation.
Aslam Khan is an African by birth and a software developer by choice. An entrepreneur, author, presenter, and coach, his career spans over three decades of building businesses, architecting software solutions, and raising high-performing software teams. Grounded in the belief that software solutions can only ever be as good as the people that build them, he has never stopped being an advocate f...
Jimmy has been in the industry for thirty+ years and written two books, the latest was Applying Domain-Driven Design. He is also founder and a consultant of factor10 and spend most of his time helping their clients with their value creation....