Andrew Harcourt
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Agility in business: what we can learn from the software industry

The word “agile” in software has many meanings; most of them inaccurate or misleading. The essence of agility in business is simple: the ability to respond quickly to threats and capitalise on opportunities.

In this talk we’ll look at the material, tangible, measurable non-software benefits of creating a truly agile organisation and examine what’s required to create one.

Target audience
CIO/CTO; executives; business leaders
Approximate duration
30-60 minutes depending on questions/audience interaction

Work

I'm at Octopus Deploy, helping to ship software that helps people ship software. Other interesting places I've been before Octopus include ThoughtWorks, Readify, Zap BI, Realex Payments and TRL.

I'm also a co-founder at Stack Mechanics, one of the organisers of the DDD Brisbane conference and, in my spare time (ha!), I also run my own photography business, Ivory Digital.

I'm a fan of high-quality code, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, continuous delivery and, most importantly, shipping code that works and that solves people's problems.

I have a number of small open-source creations, including Nimbus, ConfigInjector and NotDeadYet, and am an occasional contributor to several more.

I'm a regular speaker and presenter at conferences and training events. My mother wrote COBOL on punch cards and I've been coding in one form or another since I was five years old.

Play

Cyclist. Photographer. Ballroom dancer. Motorcyclist. Occasional sailor. Lapsed fencer.

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