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Webinar: 5 pro tips from developing and using TDD Guard

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:30:24 -0400

You’ve seen the potential of agentic coding. It looks exciting – until it breaks 10 minutes later. Again, and again. Frustrating, right? In this 30-minute webinar, Nizar, creator and maintainer of TDD Guard, shares hard-earned lessons from four months of developing with (and against) agentic coding’s quirks. https://github.com/nizos/tdd-guard

Zara Zamani at myConf 2025

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:51:00 -0400

Web3 & AI: The Power Duo Shaping a Smarter, Fairer and More Value-Driven Future As we step into a new digital era, the fusion of Web3 and AI is redefining value creation, ownership, and intelligence. This talk explores how decentralized technologies empower individuals, enhance transparency, and revolutionize industries when combined with AI’s predictive and generative capabilities. From democratizing access to intelligence to enabling trustless automation, we'll uncover how this synergy is building a more inclusive, efficient, and value-driven future. About Zara Dr. Zara Zamani is Co-Founder and CPTO at 4+Ventures, an emerging tech venture building investment studio in Sweden actively investing in web3, AI, sustainability technologies and Next Generation infrastructure technologies. She is also CEO of Lucky Kat studio, a Dutch web3 gaming studio building the biggest web3 gaming protocol with over 100+ games. Zara has multiple years of experience in designing blockchain platforms in Fintech, tourism, healthcare, logistics, foodchain, energy, gaming, decentralized finance, DAOs, metaverse, fashion, etc. She was featured as one of the 21 women in the blockchain, 10 most influential women in technology and power list of women in Fintech. With a Ph.D. in blockchain adoption, she is backed by both scientific and practical knowledge. Get to know Zara even more on her LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarazamani/ This presentation was recorded on 27 May 2025 at the myConf conference in Varberg, Sweden. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Beth Andres-Beck at myConf 2025

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:04:00 -0400

From Desert To Forest There are two hard problems in software development: building valuable software and managing the team that builds software. Functional technical organizations cluster around two poles, depending on which challenge they have solved for. Either they are working in a Desert, where delivery is predictable and visibility is high but developers slog through the sand to ship the code. Or they are working in a Forest, where visibility is limited and management relies on trust, but the team is aligned on building software well. If the company is happy with the outcomes of the Desert, there is no reason to change. But if management is frustrated by quality problems, slow delivery, political squabbles or never-ending meetings, it is helpful to know those issues are the product of organizational design. Adding even more approvals and layers of hierarchy can't fix those problems. We will talk about what does work, and how engineers can drive the solutions. (Unfortunately Kent Beck, who was supposed to give this talk together with Beth, had to cancel due to illness) About Beth Beth Andres-Beck is an engineering leader facilitating evolutionary architecture, graceful code and sustainable software development. From hir experience on teams of three engineers to tens of thousands, zie has built a toolbox to support rigorous software development in generative cultures. Beth currently focuses on promoting delightful code reviews as a tool to share the skills, knowledge and culture of the profession. Get to know Beth even more at: https://blog.bethcodes.com or on hir LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bandresbeck/ This presentation was recorded on 27 May 2025 at the myConf conference in Varberg, Sweden. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Suzi Edwards-Alexander at myConf 2025

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:02:00 -0400

From Friction to Flow; Putting Humanity at the Heart of Your Hiring Hiring should be about building amazing teams, company and culture. But most people would rather have a root canal than an interview. Why is recruitment in 2025 like this, and how do we change it? From job descriptions that read like a wish list for a mythical unicorn to interview processes that test how well someone interviews rather than how well they work, many hiring practices create unnecessary friction, arbitrary filters, and inefficiencies. In this talk, we’ll take a candid look at the common hiring pitfalls that frustrate interviewees and hurt businesses. We’ll explore why some of these practices persist, how they impact your ability to hire and what you can do to create a more equitable, more effective hiring process. This talk will offer practical ways to put humanity back into hiring, and make it a better experience for everyone. About Suzi I’m a deeply nerdy people person who regrets only ever learning to code on a ZX Spectrum. The best thing anyone ever said about me was that I ask great questions, and really care about the answers. I have almost 30 years in tech, including 15 years with Thoughtworks. I helped build an incredible team of technologists and built recruiting operations in at least eight countries, before moving into product and digital marketing for the Tech Radar after my maternity leave. Now I'm a fractional People Person and career coach, helping companies build culture and incredible teams, and individuals do the best work of their lives. I’m obsessed with belonging, levelling the playing field for under-represented people in tech (especially women, neurodiverse and LGBTQI+ folx) and toppling the patriarchy. Get to know Suzi even more on her LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suziedwardsalexander/ This presentation was recorded on 27 May 2025 at the myConf conference in Varberg, Sweden. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Aslam Khan at myConf 2025

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:01:00 -0400

The Mind Behind the Method When I first encountered Extreme Programming. I was inspired and determined to work in this way. Easier said than done. I found it difficult and oscillated, but I persevered. As I improved at some practices and appreciated their value, I started encouraging and helping other teams adopt them. This came to occupy much of my career. However, the lack of enduring adoption bothered me enough to question my own ability as a practitioner and teacher. Now, I am returning to my persistent observation: some teams resist adoption from the beginning, others start enthusiastically, and many more than I like gradually revert to prior ways of working. Recently, I came back to this challenge after being inspired by Kahneman's book "Thinking Fast and Slow". It has taught me how we judge and make decisions and increased my awareness of our unconscious biases and cognition. I'm in the middle of writing my exploration into understanding practice adoption through the lens of Kahneman's work. I shared an early draft with Jimmy Nilsson and he encouraged me to share my thinking on myConf. So, as I often do, I will take the brave step of testing my ideas in the spirit of improving them. My work is not bound by research, and no conclusive answers exist. Instead, I want to open a conversation that bridges technical practices with human cognition. By examining software development this way, we may find more natural approaches to practice adoption that respect how developers think, decide, and work. Maybe this will introduce cognitive psychology's vocabulary into the context of software development, and this interdisciplinary perspective will offer insights into why teams struggle with changes that would benefit them. As a spoiler, present bias is our tendency to disproportionately value immediate rewards or costs over future ones, even when the future benefits are objectively greater. This cognitive tendency causes us to heavily discount future outcomes in favour of immediate gratification or avoidance of immediate costs. When it comes to adopting pair programming, teams (and managers) viscerally experience the immediate "productivity loss" of two developers on one task, while the substantial long-term benefits remain abstract and easily discounted. I'll share more in the talk and about other practices too. About Aslam Aslam Khan is an African by birth and a software developer by choice. An entrepreneur, author, presenter, and coach. His career spans three decades of building businesses, architecting software solutions, and raising high-performing software teams. Grounded in the belief that software solutions can only ever be as good as the people who build them, he has never stopped advocating for improving how people interact and work together. At this stage, he enjoys the unexpected ways in which the experiences and relationships he has formed on his scenic route through the world of technology are starting to intersect. In recent years, a large part of his time has been invested in building platforms to train young developers. He believes there's a lot to do and address in our world and work by harnessing technology's power to level playing fields. His commitment is to play his part both as an individual and as a capacitor of Africa's youth. Get to know Aslam even more on his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aslamkhn/ This presentation was recorded on 27 May 2025 at the myConf conference in Varberg, Sweden. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Aino Vonge Corry at myConf 2025

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:30:00 -0400

Do You Want SERIOUS Play in Your Work Life? LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) combines the power of LEGO bricks with cognitive science to engage both “System 1” and “System 2” thinking, as defined in Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. “System 1” represents fast, instinctive, and emotional thinking, while “System 2” is slower, deliberative, and logical. By integrating these systems, LSP enables teams to approach complex problems with both creativity and analytical precision. This session will demonstrate how LSP enhances communication, collaboration, and strategic planning beyond traditional methods such as post-it notes or whiteboard sessions. By leveraging theories of constructivism and constructionism—principles that emphasize the brain’s ability to learn more effectively when constructing its own knowledge, especially through hands-on activities—participants use LEGO models as metaphors for their ideas and insights. Drawing on Bent Flyvbjerg’s concept of “thinking slowly and acting quickly,” the session emphasizes thorough consideration of challenges to enable swift decision-making in dynamic IT system construction scenarios. Attendees will see how this method fosters deeper engagement, sharper insights, and faster alignment when addressing the complexities of large-scale IT projects. The term “system,” as used in this workshop, refers broadly to people, roles, and teams but can also encompass IT systems, such as user interfaces or developer-database interactions. By building metaphoric LEGO representations, teams can surface hidden assumptions, enhance understanding, and align perspectives to optimize communication. Aino will share some case studies on learnings from LSP sessions in real life. About Aino Aino holds a master's degree and a PhD in computer science. She has 12 years of experience with Patterns in Software Development and 20 years of experience with agile processes in academia and industry. She also teaches how to teach Computer Science to teachers and thus lives up to the name of her company, Metadeveloper. In her spare time, she runs and sings (but claims not to do both at the same time). Get to know Aino even more at: https://metadeveloper.com or on her LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ainovongecorry/ factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Erik Dörnenburg at myConf 2025

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:29:00 -0400

Green Computing—the Practitioner’s Perspective Companies are trying to reduce their carbon footprint. For many, IT is a relevant factor on that journey, and they are looking at the new field of GreenOps for ideas and answers. Based on his work at Thoughtworks, a global IT consultancy that is also a founding member of the Green Software Foundation, Erik will provide the developer's perspective on GreenOps. Starting with some key concepts and principles, the talk moves to specific techniques, methods, and tools to measure and reduce an organization's carbon footprint. About Erik On his long journey in the tech industry, Erik has continuously encountered and embraced new technologies, finding ways to realize their potential while bringing along proven engineering practices. As CTO Europe at Thoughtworks, he helps clients make the most out of modern technologies, platforms, and practices. Erik is a regular speaker, has contributed to a few books, and maintains several open-source projects. He holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and studied Computer Science and Linguistics at University College Dublin. Get to know Erik even more at: https://erik.doernenburg.com or on his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoernenburg/ This presentation was recorded on 26 May 2025 at the myConf conference in Varberg, Sweden. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Kevlin Henney at myConf 2025

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:28:00 -0400

Ye Cannae Change the Laws of Physics Software is executable fiction. Software development is about constructing narratives, drawing from a broad palette of paradigms and technologies, married to our understanding of the needs and wants for a system. Abstraction allows us to simplify and reify the complexity of the world into a formal description that we continually update. Abstraction allows us to ignore things about the world and about computer systems that are irrelevant or inconvenient. But there are limits to the enchantment of code and our ability to maintain illusions. When the rubber hits the road and the packet hits the network we find universal limits are there to keep it real. Nothing can be instantaneous or infinite. Not all computations can be reversed. Not everything is computable. Not everything can be known. Every computation costs time and energy. In this talk we'll explore the metaphors and realities of the physical world and how they play out in our software systems. About Kevlin Kevlin is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies cover programming, practice and people. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites, and been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). Kevlin is also co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. Get to know Kevlin even more at: https://kevlin.tel or on his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevlin/ This presentation was recorded on 26 May 2025 at the myConf conference in Varberg, Sweden. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Sarah Freiesleben at myConf 2025

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:27:00 -0400

Solve Better Problems Putting profit in focus can cause teams to converge on reductive solutions. True value is found in the dynamic interplay between reality and possibility. Finding it doesn't always feel efficient, but creating space to tap into what is emerging will help us solve better problems and meet the systemic complexity required to build a sustainable future. About Sarah Sarah Freiesleben helps teams solve better problems and take wiser next steps by facilitating dynamic dialogues around risks, opportunities & constraints to improve conditions for transformative change, innovation & project performance. Additionally, she serves purposefully as a non-expert, building bridges between technical and functional teams to define problems & requirements in relationship with solution possibilities. With an academic background in the humanities and 18 years working on global, cross functional projects in a wide variety of industries, Sarah’s work focuses on connection and agency, which often includes talking about DEI and AI. She lives in Copenhagen and works as a consultant at Ramskov Consulting Group and as an Industry Fellow at The Technical University of Denmark. Get to know Sarah even more on her LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-freiesleben-40a7701a/ This presentation was recorded on 26 May 2025 at the myConf conference in Varberg, Sweden. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/myconf/

Breakfast Webinar: Is the value actually flowing

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:06:00 -0400

Sure, your team might be fast. But zooming out, is the value actually flowing all the way from customer need to delivered value? To evaluate that, we need a broader view. Looking at the full portfolio planning and collaboration. That’s where Joakim comes in. In this session, Joakim (LinkedIn link) from Friktion will ask and answer some tough questions, like: - Why should product and market people care about development lead times? - What common but hidden wait times and bottlenecks are keeping you from launching on time? - How can you get better at handling uncertainty in your processes and decisions? While everyone is welcome to join, we think this is especially relevant for product owners, PMs, architects, portfolio leads, and leaders who steer the system.

Breakfast Webinar: Moving fast without breaking things

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:01:00 -0400

Long lead times are the bane of agile software development. They don’t just delay features, they make it harder to respond to change, learn from feedback and keep your teams engaged. In fact, the book Accelerate highlights lead time as one of four key metrics that predict business performance. But while it tells us why lead time matters, it doesn’t tell us how to measure or reduce it in practice. That’s where Raniz comes in. In this session, Raniz (LinkedIn link) from factor10 will show you how to: - Measure lead time in meaningful ways - Identify what’s slowing you down - Take action on the things you actually control While everyone is welcome to join, we think this is especially relevant for devs, tech leads, and anyone who wants practical steps to speed things up and increase quality without burning out.

Erik Meijer - My talk at myConf 2024

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:37:37 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-erik-meijer/

April Wensel - My talk at myConf 2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:03:11 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-april-wensel/

Jan Bosch - My talk at myConf 2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:52:07 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-jan-bosch/

Susanne Kaiser - My talk at myConf 2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:39:26 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-susanne-kaiser/

Henric Johnson - My talk at myConf 2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:20:18 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-henric-johnson/

Emily Bache - My talk at myConf 2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:38:12 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-emily-bache/

James Lewis - My talk at myConf 2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:38:11 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-james-lewis/

Tamara Carleton - My talk at myConf 2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:38:10 -0400

Watch the talk here: https://myconf.io/news/myconf-2024/speaker-announcement-tamara-carleton/

Tamara Carleton at myConf 2024

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:15:17 -0400

Building a Moonshot Mindset When should your team go bigger, and what are some ways to take visionary action? In this inspirational session, hear Tamara Carleton introduce the moonshot mindset and some ways for turning radical ideas into reality, drawing from her recent book Building Moonshots which the Financial Times described as "a much-needed resource for our era of uncertainty". You can find Tamara on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaracarleton This presentation was recorded on 20 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

Erik Meijer at myConf 2024

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:15:14 -0400

Virtual Machinations: Leveraging the Linguistic Bytecode of Large Language Models to Emulate Programming Language VMs If AI is the new embodiment of computing, we need to adjust the way we as humans communicate with and instruct AIs to perform desired tasks. However, natural language is inefficient for expressing ideas and instructions precisely. This is why computer scientists create programming languages. All programming languages share the design principles of *abstraction*, naming arbitrary things, and referring to these things by their names; and *parametrization*, leaving named holes for things that can be filled in by actual things via application. We will demonstrate the design of a natural language-based programming language that is also based on the principles of abstraction and parametrization. Moreover, we will show how we can implement this language by using a large language model as its virtual machine. This approach leverages the LLM's capacity as a general sequence predictor, transforming it into a tool for generating sequences of instructions for our newly designed language. The correspondence between LLMs and VMs enables the transfer of numerous techniques and insights from the programming language domain to the realm of LLMs. This cross-pollination of concepts opens up new avenues for utilizing LLMs to effectively execute complex computational tasks. By leveraging the strengths of both natural language and programming languages, we can bridge the communication gap between humans and AI systems, paving the way for a future of seamless and intuitive AI interaction. You can find Erik on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikmeijer1 This presentation was recorded on 20 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

April Wensel at myConf 2024

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:15:12 -0400

Maximize Humanity with Compassion With all the time we spend on machines, it’s easy to forget that we are human beings, and so are our collaborators and customers. If we neglect the human side of our work, we can end up fighting with coworkers, disappointing users, and even burning out. Thankfully, we can harness the power of compassion to help us reconnect with our humanity. Compassion isn’t just something soft and fuzzy – it’s a rational choice that helps us minimize suffering and maximize human flourishing. In this talk, you’ll learn concrete steps for applying compassion to manage your stress levels, connect more deeply with your coworkers, create products that delight users, and ultimately leave a more positive impact on the world. You can find April on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilwensel/ This presentation was recorded on 20 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

Emily Bache at myConf 2024

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:15:09 -0400

Real Team Building for Software Development: Technical Coaching Software today is built by teams. There may be brilliant individuals and genius coders but in my experience, the best designs come from a process of collaboration, iteration and feedback. Across an organization of many teams working on the same codebase, you need some consistency in approach and a common language for talking about design and improvements. Team building is an important consideration for technical leaders which often receives too little attention. Building teams is about enabling everyone to contribute their best in pursuit of a shared goal. Experienced software developers often work well with peers but they also need to be able to share what they know and help junior people to advance. Of course, it’s always been part of a Scrum Master’s role to encourage better teamwork and collaboration, but often that’s not enough. Technical coaching is different from what a Scrum Master does. The focus is not so much on the process and ceremonies of an agile method, but more on how the code is getting written. It’s about raising code quality, learning faster, and better handling the complexity of modern software development. I’m technical and I coach teams of developers, generally in larger organizations. I work to influence coding decisions, spread skills, and help people gain a better vocabulary for discussing design decisions. In this talk, I’d like to explain what a technical coach actually does and how this can help an organization build a strong engineering culture and promote technical excellence. You can find Emily on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilybache/ This presentation was recorded on 21 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

Henric Johnson at myConf 2024

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:15:08 -0400

Emerging industry and technologies of power There is little doubt that geopolitics is tightening its grip on international business and R&D. In this talk, Henric will give a deeper understanding of what trends and insights companies and universities should take home in a world with global competition. You can find Henric on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henric-johnson-4711a22 This presentation was recorded on 21 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

James Lewis at myConf 2024

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:15:06 -0400

How Flow Works Have you ever thought about why what we see as the sensible defaults for software engineering in 2024 work? We adopt the key metrics from Accelerate, team structures from Team Topologies, and Microservices in an effort to improve the flow of value to our users (or to a customer saying Thank You, paraphrasing Daniel Terhorst-North). But what is Value? What is Flow? James will use ideas from Information Theory and Complexity Science to peek into the domain model of our everyday experiences turning ideas into running software. Come along and explore the weird world of how work works. Warning, may cause you to reduce batch sizes because maths. You can find James on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices This presentation was recorded on 20 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

Susanne Kaiser at myConf 2024

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:53:57 -0400

Optimizing for a fast flow of value with adaptive, socio-technical systems In today’s fast-paced business environment, it’s essential for organizations to continuously adapt and evolve to remain competitive and stay relevant in the market. How to build systems that can thrive in the face of constant change? This talk explores the synergy of Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Team Topologies as a holistic approach to building adaptive systems optimized for a fast, sustainable flow of value and feedback. Key takeaways: - Anticipating change and identifying areas where to invest or to outsource to gain competitive advantage and efficiency - Identifying and unlocking blockers to flow - Aligning teams and evolving their interactions to the system and strategy You can find Susanne on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1 This presentation was recorded on 21 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

Jan Bosch at myConf 2024

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:47:00 -0400

Stop wasting your R&D budget! Start modeling value and experiment! Research by us and others shows that somewhere between half and two-thirds of all features in a typical system are never used or used so seldomly that these should not have been built in the first place. In addition, 70-90% of all resources in R&D work on commodity functionality, rather than differentiation and innovation. The current practices around product management and R&D are incredibly wasteful. In this talk, I present an alternative approach organized around quantitative modeling of value, experimental development approaches such as A/B testing, and continuous monitoring of value delivered to customers in operational software. You can find Jan on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbosch/ This presentation was recorded on 21 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/

How AIs appreciate beauty – Martin Hellspong at Prevas’s Ingenuity Week

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:00:00 -0500

To be able to build an artificial intelligence that can understand the world and learn from experience, we must better understand the very process of understanding and learning. We are going to do a somewhat philosophical dive, based on AI research, into a model of an artificial mind. This model hopefully allows us to understand and quantify what makes something fun, boring, surprising, interesting, or beautiful. And it gives us a way to artificially model such concepts, and understand how they relate to creativity, curiosity, and learning about the world. We will also take a peek at the recent achievements in AI (such as ChatGPT) and compare our model with the way such AIs learn and understand the world.

Breakfast Webinar: The Methanol Economy

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:05:00 -0500

Mårten Silvanius, Ph.D., CEO of Nuelab, shares his thoughts on how the methanol economy can ease our transition into a fossil-free world. You can find more about Mårten Silvanius and Nuelab on the following links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/m%C3%A5rten-silvanius-ph-d-6665074/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/nuelab/ This webinar was recorded on December 15 2023. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/

Nyari Samushonga at myConf 2023

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 05:49:00 -0400

Investing in the Next Generation of Tech Talent South Africa has the highest level of inequality in the world. At WeThinkCode, we encourage young innovators to believe in the possibility that a line of code can make theirs a more egalitarian society. In this talk, I reflect on building a training academy that celebrates diversity and inclusion to create maximum value. By training young South Africans as software developers, we are maximising the value of our country's human capital and unlocking the innovative capacity of the next generation of geeks.