Archive for February 2009
Software Development Evolution
It is becoming more and more clear to me that the next significant step in software development evolution will not be a new technology or a new tool,
but an approach that successfully incorporates our hardwired human nature in the way we develop.
In InfoQ Interview: Linda Rising on Collaboration, Bonobos and The Brain Linda Rising points out that scientists initially believed the conscious mind
is like the tip of an iceberg, while the subconscious is the remaining 90%. However, later studies suggest that our subconscious is the whole iceberg,
while our conscious is actually just… a snowball on top of it.
If only we could learn how to drive this iceberg…
Being Agile as a personal skill
I have stumbled yesterday on this presentation given by Linda Rising at QCon SF 2007: “Perfection Is An Unrealistic Goal”.
It underlines the impedance between how humans are hardwired to work (in ~90 min focused sprints followed
by a 20-30 min break) and the prejudices haunting our workplaces (where productivity is associated with
longer hours without any break and agility means people can interrupt each other at any time).
