The document discusses how cutting budgets by an order of magnitude could spur creativity in software development. It suggests adopting an operating expenditure mindset over capital expenditure, following Agile principles, focusing on effectiveness over efficiency, and reducing meeting times, documentation lengths, and presentations. Doing more with less could apply to other areas and help build better software through different approaches.

1. Building software like Curitiba. A TED inspired drive to work.

4. “ Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget. ”

5. How would our decisions change?

6. $1,000,000

7. $1,000,00 X

8. $100,000

9. $1,000,000 vs. $100,000 6,667 vs. 667 hrs. 42 Months vs. 4 Months

10. That would be a drastic shift in thinking. We might even have to be *gulp* creative .

11. We might have to think differently about a few things. Like…

12. Adopting an Op erating Ex penditure vs. Cap ital Ex penditure Mindset yagni, ifm, tvm, irr, sxn, release early

13. Living the practices behind the Agile Manifesto focus on value, simplicity, welcome change, trust, motivated individuals

14. Focus on Getting Real flex scope, less software, constraints, start with no, actions instead of words

15. Stop talking about efficiency , and start focusing on effectiveness .

16. I think we could build better software, for better markets, with better people…

17. And it can go a lot further than just building software…

18. 30 minutes vs. 3 minutes meetings vs. discussions

19. 20 Minutes vs. 2 Minutes drive to work vs. work from home

20. 100 pages vs. 10 words business plan vs. mantra

21. 1400 vs. 140 characters blog post vs. twitter post

22. 60 minutes vs. 6 minutes presentations vs. lightning talks

23. Where else does this apply?

24. Thanks! Ben Carey www.hellokensho.com www.thesherpaproject.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

25. Related Stuff http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/189 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Lerner

26. Images http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curitiba http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Jaime_Lerner_May_2004.jpg