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Ben Linders
Back to the Future:
A Futurespective on Software
Development in 2040
Agile Tour Brussels, October 30, 2020

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Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous improvement
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
Ben Linders - Trainer / Coach /
Adviser / Author / Speaker
Books: Valuable Agile Retrospectives Problem? What Problem?
What Drives Quality Self-assessments Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game Retrospectives Bingo Impediments
Quality Coaching Cards Agile Testing Cards

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Futurespective
Retrospective exercise
 Forward thinking
 No current constraints
 Solution focused
How to do it:
 Put yourself in the future where you reached the goal
 Imagine how it looks, works, feels
 Think how you got there, what helped, challenges
 Back to present: Take first steps towards the future

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Software Development in 2040
I just came back from 2040 to find out that we still make
software. But it’s not as we know it, Jim!
Software development is done completely different compared
to the agile wave that we had at the start of the century.
Let’s futuresplore it together!

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Image it’s 2040
We have finally mastered software development!
Working software, affordable, flexible, no bugs
Think about things like:
 How do software and computers look?
 What thought and mindsets exist on SW development?
 What kinds of work are done? How, why this way?
 How do people work together? Why?
 How are things organized? Planned?
 What tools do we use? How do we use them?
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How did we get here?
Ask yourself:
• What is it that makes the difference?
• What enables you to do it this way?
• What have you learned?
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Back to the present
What are the steps that we can take today?
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Thank you for futuresploring!

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