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.
I'm Head of IT & Engineering at Etax, one of Australia's largest tax agents. Other interesting places I've been before Etax include Octopus Deploy, ThoughtWorks, Readify, Zap BI, Realex Payments and TRL.
I'm a fan of high-quality code, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, continuous delivery and, most importantly, shipping software 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.
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