Keynote

Dag 1 09:15-10:30 

Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain

Talare: Linda Rising

Cognitive scientists tell us that we are more productive and happier when our behavior matches our brain’s hardwiring — when what we do and why we do it matches the way we have evolved to survive over tens of thousands of years. One problematic behavior humans have is that we are hardwired to instantly decide who we trust. And we generally aren't aware of these decisions—it just happens.

Linda Rising explains that this hardwired “trust evaluation” can get in the way of working well with others. Pairing, the daily stand-up, and close communication with the customer and others outside the team go a long way to overcome our instant evaluation of others. As Linda helps you gain a better understanding of this mechanism in your behavior and what agile processes can do to help, you are more likely to build better interpersonal relationships.

10:30-10:50 Fika

Dag 1 10:50-12:00 

Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves

Talare: Linda Rising

Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception. It seems we are overly optimistic, and, in fact, we wouldn't have survived without this trait. With this built-in bias as a starting point, it's almost impossible for us to estimate accurately. That doesn't mean all is lost. We must simply accept that our estimates are best guesses and continually re-evaluate as we go, which is, of course, the agile approach to managing change.

Linda Rising has been part of many plan-driven development projects where sincere, honest people with integrity wanted to make the best estimates possible and used many “scientific” approaches to make it happen—all for naught. Re-estimation was regarded as an admission of failure to do the best up-front estimate and resulted in a lot of overhead and meetings to try to “get it right.” Offering examples from ordinary life—especially from the way people eat and drink—Linda demonstrates how hard it is for us to see our poor estimating skills and helps us learn to avoid the self-deception that is hardwired in all of us.

Dag 2 09:00-09:50

A Technical Drilldown into “All Things M”

Talare: Brian Loesgen, Microsoft

Microsoft has embarked on a major initiative to make it easier to design, construct, deploy and manage distributed applications and services. The Oslo modelling platform is a key part of this vision, and “M”, a new way to describe models, lies at the heart of Oslo. In this session we drill into the composite parts of M:  MSchema, MGrammar and MGraph. We will see how these pieces can be used to create a DSL (Domain Specific Language)  and how that DSL can be used.  We will also look at the tooling that Microsoft is providing to work with textual and graphical DSLs.