The document discusses a nomadic approach to software development, arguing against building extensive infrastructure and instead advocating for utilizing resources until exhausted before moving on. It emphasizes the importance of constant cleanup and improvement, with the analogy that foundational elements, like a toilet, are essential for future developments such as a cathedral. The author suggests viewing the current system as a scaffolding for future iterations, allowing for continuous growth and adaptation.

1. Nomads do not
build Cathedrals
Marcus Denker
http://www.marcusdenker.de

4. Software

5. Strange Talk…

6. No idea if it will work

7. The Platform
Jump to large
Project1
Project2
Project3

8. Nomadic Solution
- Do not build infrastructure
!
- Use resources until depleted
!
- Move on

9. The Platform
Jump Possible
Project1
Project2
Project3
Project4

10. Better?
- Invest in infrastructure
!
- Build new abstractions
!

11. Feedback Loop
Projects Infrastructure

12. Feedback loop is not enough!
!
Add until it is unmaintainable.
Throw everything away.

13. Feedback loop is not enough!
!
!
After the first line of code you are in maintenance

14. Sustainable Feedback !
!
- Constant Cleanup
- Constant Improvement

17. To build a cathedral you
need to build a toilet first

18. The toilet is not the
cathedral

19. Yet there can not be a
cathedral without building
a toilet first

20. Effects?

21. Perfection

23. Constant “in Progress”

24. Scaffolding

25. System is not an Artefact

26. Always a Result

27. …instead of dreaming of
perfection

28. Trivial Changes

29. Every improvement has an
effect

31. Starting point for
contributors

32. Only trivialities?

34. No!

35. Exponential effect

36. Compound Interest

37. Scaffolding

38. Todays system is scaffolding
for tomorrow

39. The whole system could be
replaced within just some iterations