The document summarizes the qconLondon 2012 conference, which featured talks from prominent developers on software development topics. Key points included that there are no universally best practices, only tradeoffs to consider; speakers encouraged attendees to understand the tradeoffs of different options and make informed decisions by documenting the tradeoffs. A recurring message was that no single approach or technology is a "silver bullet" and developers should be wary of those claiming otherwise.

1. #qconLondon 2012
Recap

2. What?
• qconlondon.com
• 2 days: tutorials
• 3 days: conference
• Recordings online @ infoq.com
In the next 6 months
• London!

3. What?
• 1200 devs
• „VIP“s
o Martin Fowler
o Greg Young
o Dan North
o Rebecca Parsons
o Rich Hickey
o Jim Webber
o Zach Holman
o Ade Oshineye

4. 3 days full on
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Recap of best talks

5. The bad news

7. There are no best practices

8. „There are no best practices“
Dan North

9. What is your context?

10. Trade offs!
You get something
You loose something

11. Sample
Teams
co-located or distributed

12. Sample
Development
WPF or Windows Forms

13. Sample
Development
automated or manual build

14. Trade offs!
It is always a trade off
 Know the trade offs

15. „Trade Off Game“

16. Trade offs!
Know the tradeoffs

17. Trade offs!
Know the tradeoffs
 Decision

18. You cant take an informed decision
without knowing the tradeoffs

19. What should we do?

20. #1 Know the tradeoffs
Seek advice
Play the „Trade off game“

21. #2 Document Trade offs
And Decision!

24. Document Trade offs
Everyone involved
Transparency
Share decision
Share responsibility

27. No „silver bullet“

28. „Scrum is not a Silver bullet“
http://www.controlchaos.com/message-from-ken/

29. Silver bullets?
Scrum, Silverlight, .NET, WinRT,
WCF, Scala, Java, Kanban, Cloud,
ContinuousDelivery, HTML5, SOA,
WPF, Lean, SharePoint, SOAP,
Collaboration, Automation,
SixSigma, WinForms, RUP,
JavaScript, …

30. Be aware!
People seek for Silver Bullets!

31. Be aware!
Someone talking about a silver bullet?

32. Be aware!
Someone selling a silver bullet?
 It might be a vendor

33. #1 Know the Trade offs
 Play the Trade off game

34. #1 Know the Trade offs
 Play the Trade off game
#2 Document Decisions
(incl. Trade Offs)

35. #1 Know the Trade offs
 Play the Trade off game
#2 Document Decisions
(incl. Trade Offs)
#3 There are no Werewolves Silver Bullets

36. Thank you!!
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37. Sample
Architecture
monolith or single components

38. Sample
Technologies
Silverlight or HTML+JS

39. Sample
Development style
automated or manual testing

40. Sample
Teams
small teams or big team

41. Sample
Development style
No branching
or
branch by feature

42. Sample
Architecture
company wide standard
or
each project different