Impact! Drive innovation from the front seat
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Technologists should be the driving force of the digital revolution but way to often they take a back seat. In this talk I discuss the reasons of that and highlight three opportunities to change our mindset.
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Impact! Drive innovation from the front seat
- 1. Impact! Drive innovation from the front seat Luca Grulla Impact Meetup - November 2019
- 2. 1947 Transistor was created Luca Grulla
- 4. Total venture capital investment in UK tech in 2018 Luca Grulla £6.3 billion
- 5. Technologists are naturally positioned to be the driving force of the revolution Luca Grulla
- 6. ...except... way too often the following happens: Luca Grulla
- 7. “Aha! Kubernetes Webpack Swarming Microservices?” Luca Grulla “I had an idea!” “Exactly.“Uh?” Won’t work.”
- 8. We exclude ourselves from the conversation, taking a seat in the back. Luca Grulla
- 9. Why is it happening? Luca Grulla
- 11. Problem #1 We are a very young industry Luca Grulla
- 12. We are defining our industry practices as we’re building products Luca Grulla
- 13. Luca Grulla Inward looking (define practices) Outward looking (create products)
- 14. Problem #2 We are borrowing the wrong metaphor Luca Grulla
- 15. Enter the feared John Cutler’s Feature factory Luca Grulla source: https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory
- 17. A different mindset is required Luca Grulla
- 19. #1 Our skills are a mean to an end Luca Grulla
- 21. #2 Align to the organization goals and growth stage Luca Grulla
- 23. Kent Beck’s 3X explore expand extract Luca Grulla Kent Beck’s “Product Development Triathlon”
- 24. #3 Leave dogma behind and co-create a new mental framework Luca Grulla
- 25. The Impact meetup wants to be the catalyst for this change Luca Grulla
- 26. We want to be a forum for innovative thinking Luca Grulla
- 27. We can truly be the driving force of the digital revolution Luca Grulla
- 28. Great news! It all starts today. Luca Grulla
- 29. Questions Psst! Signal AI is hiring!! https://www.signal-ai.com/about-us/careers Luca Grulla
Editor's Notes
- Started in the 70s, 80s with PCs, 90s with internet. Now AI is the drive.
- Started in the 70s, 80s with PCs, 90s with internet. Now AI is the drive. Just in UK an impressive ~£2B have been invested in AI company in 2018
- 2B just in AI 100B in US Most of this is software. Software has been eating the world since 2011.
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses. Creating software is a right brain activity
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses. Creating software is a right brain activity
- Rather than focussing in the end goal, we focus on our tools, our practices.
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses. Creating software is a right brain activity
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses. Creating software is a right brain activity
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses. Creating software is a right brain activity
- We are figuring this out along the way. It’s only 70 years from the transistor. It’s probably 30 years since being a SE became a profession and not pure research.
- We are figuring this out along the way. It’s only 70 years from the transistor. It’s probably 30 years since being a SE became a profession and not pure research.
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses. Creating software is a right brain activity
- Rather than focussing in the end goal, we focus on our tools, our practices.
- In a feature factory more than a driving force we are “busy”. We position ourselves are delivery centres. We fulfill requests. Although the feature factory is systemic, way too often we hear developers being happy about that
- Be the change you wish to be
- Be the change you wish to be
- Be the change you wish to be
- The elements on the left are our craft, what we need to know to be effective. The new world on the right is how we drive our work. It’s the context into which apply our crafts.
- Be the change you wish to be
- The elements on the left are our craft, what we need to know to be effective. The new world on the right is how we drive our work. It’s the context into which apply our crafts.
- Be the change you wish to be
- Some fantastic work over the years. Jez Humble Accellerate, Barry O’Reilly Unlearn just to name two.
- We will talk about approaches, about technology that enable accelleration and we will talk about goal.
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses.
- To give an idea, £6.3B capital in investment in UK tech in 2018 We are the brain and the engine that will connect more people, accelerate business workflows. We sit in the front seat and we drive our businesses.
- We will talk about approaches, about technology that enable accelleration and we will talk about goal.