Fighting Software Entropy • Alison Rosewarne & Stewart Gleadown • YOW! 2022

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2022. #GOTOcon #YOW Alison Rosewarne - Executive Manager of Architecture at REA Group Stewart Gleadow - Executive Manager of Engineering at REA Group RESOURCES Alison Stewart ABSTRACT Building software is the easy part. Evolving and maintaining it is the hard part. Preferred approaches change, team members leave, tech debt accumulates, dependencies date, ownership changes, and everyone has a lot of other work on their plate. Software decay is a very real and endemic problem for us all. So how can you break from the cycle of build, atrophy, replatform, repeat? Join us to hear about how REA Group are fighting software entropy - including measurement, process, company wide objectives, and ultimately lowering total cost of ownership and cognitive load through our platform product strategy. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:43 What is entropy? 03:55 What is software entropy 11:18 How can we fight software entropy? 11:40 Architecture practice 19:04 Key takeaways 19:41 Engineering excellence 28:22 Key takeaways 28:48 Continuous improvement 34:34 Key takeaways 35:07 Adopting platforms 39:53 Key takeaways 40:30 Recap 40:55 Key takeaways 41:49 Outro 42:00 Q&A Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps • Erik Schön • The Art Of Strategy • Sun Tzu • The Art of War • John Boyd • A Discourse on Winning and Losing • #Entropy #SoftwareEntropy #SoftwareArchitecture #AlisonRosewarne #StewartGleadown #TechDebt #TechnicalDebt #CognitiveLoad #ContinuousImprovement #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.