The Real Reason Cyberpunk 2077's Software Failed • Dave Farley • GOTO 2021

We’re so pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and frequent GOTO Conferences speaker, for a monthly video series featuring ideas about continuous delivery, DevOps, test-driven development, BDD, software engineering and software development in general. Find plenty more from Dave on his Continuous Delivery YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCfqyGl3nq_V0bo64CjZh8g Dave Farley - Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer, Award-winning Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. ABSTRACT The Cyberpunk 2077 release was a disaster. What were the roots of this failure? Why did this very high-profile software project go so badly wrong and how could the software’s producers have avoided it? CD Projekt Red is the studio that produced the release, in this episode Software Engineering expert Dave Farley examines the publicity available evidence for what went wrong from a Software Engineering perspective. This was a failure of poor management and bad software engineering, This is a high-profile example of a very common way to fail in the delivery of software. The consequences are always high, how could good software engineering make a difference, and how is that related to better business performance in this case? This was a failure of business strategy, culture and software engineering all of which could have been helped and improved by DevOps & Continuous Delivery (engineering) thinking. REFERENCES Small Teams are more efficient: https://www.qsm.com/risk_02.html Continuous Delivery in AAA Game Development: https://youtu.be/8hXRvvFDztg CD TRAINING COURSES If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley's courses https://bit.ly/DFTraining RECOMMENDED BOOKS You can grab Dave Farley's new book 'Continuous Delivery Pipelines' here: https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #GOTOxDaveFarley #Programming #Cyberpunk #2077 #Cyberpunk2077 #Teams #Refactoring #DaveFarley #GOTO #GOTOcon #ContinuousDelivery DAVE'S LINKS https://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk https://twitter.com/davefarley77 http://www.davefarley.net Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1