Taking Back "Software Engineering" • Dave Farley • GOTO 2020

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Oslo 2020. #GOTOcon #GOTOoslo https://goto-oslo.com Dave Farley - Continuous delivery and DevOps pioneer, award-winning author, and founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. You can find more content like this on Dave’s "Continuous Delivery YouTube Channel": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCfqyGl3nq_V0bo64CjZh8g ABSTRACT Craftsmanship is not enough Would you fly in a plane designed by a craftsman or would you prefer your aircraft to be designed by engineers? Engineering is the application of iterative, empirical, practical science to real-world problems. Craftsmanship is a wonderful thing, and as a reaction to the terrible abuses of the term Engineering in software development Software Craftsmanship has helped in our learning of what really works. The term "Software Engineering" has gained a bad reputation. It implies "Big up-front design" and "Mathematically provable models" in place of working code. However, that is down to our interpretation, not a problem with "Engineering" as a discipline. In recent years we have discovered what really works in software development. Not everyone practices approaches like Continuous Delivery, but it is widely seen as representing the current state-of-the-art in software development. This is because at its root CD is about the application of an iterative, practical, empirical, maybe even science based approach to solving problems in software development. Is this a form of software engineering? Software isn't bridge-building, it is not car or aircraft development either, but then neither is Chemical Engineering, neither is [...] Read the full abstract here: https://goto-oslo.com/2020/sessions/1246/taking-back-software-engineering-virtual RECOMMENDED BOOKS David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • https://amzn.to/3rjetdi Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd Dave Farley & many more • Software Architecture Metrics • https://amzn.to/3M3XqG5 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #DaveFarley #ContinuousDelivery CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1