Fighting crime and protecting vulnerable people using Gherkin, autism and a half-built kit car. Jamie Knight and Mike Southgate

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1. cukenfest Keynote · London 2019 · By: Mike Southgate & Jamie + Lion
2. Speech is hard
3. I’m Jamie I’m Wookie
4. I’m Lion I’m Jamie I’m Wookie
5. This is not science. Disclaimer. This is Anecdote. We’re sharing our experiences and what we have learnt along the way. We don’t speak for all autistic people / wookies.
6. …
7. All about ERMI? What we do & why we’re doing it Collaboration How we work together without killing each other Building ERMI Sustainable development using the cloud… man
8. Scrutiny of transactions undertaken throughout the course of the relationship (including, where necessary, the source of funds) to ensure that the transactions are consistent with the firm’s knowledge of the customer, their business and risk profile…
9. “Scrutiny of transactions undertaken throughout the course of the relationship (including, where necessary, the source of funds) to ensure that the transactions are consistent with the firm’s knowledge of the customer, their business and risk profile;" ERM
11. “Bad stuff is in this file, go read it”
12. Why we do this?
13. $,$$$,$$$ $$$$ $$
15. Because reasons….
16. One: We want to help protect people & fight crime.
17. Two: We want to make good & affordable software
18. Three: This is fun & approached the right way it can stay fun
19. All about ERMI? Short History, what we do & why we’re doing it Collaboration How we work together without killing each other Building ERMI Sustainable development using the cloud… man
20. Collaboration How we work together without killing each other
21. Communication Autism +
22. The Problem is not new.
23. A Confusion of Collaborators
24. 1. Naming Stuff.
25. Common Language via BDD
27. Lawyering Given a Payer….
 Given a Transaction…
 Given a Flag of….
 
 Nerd Mode *nods lots*
28. Given a Beneficiary….
 
 ? Given a Month… Lawyering Nerd Mode
29. 2. Problem / Solutions
30. Lawyering We need a map… The user logs in…
 Nerd Mode *worries lots*
32. No Database, no User Interface
33. I Know JS I know Excel What are we good at?
34. I Know JS I know Excel What are we good at? & so does our clients!
35. 3. Co-owning Complexity
37. 1 2 3
38. 3 8 because Lawyering Nerd Mode
39. 3. Build in quality.
41. Carry any technical debt in the solution not the testing.
42. Communication Autism +
43. Autism
44. Literal + Autistic = Ooops. “Go Wash Your Hands in the Toilet.”
45. Autistic Literalism + Gherkin
46. Energy Management + Pacing
47. • Accounts • Sales • Clients • Rules • Marketing • Research • Logistics • Code • Quality • Scaling • Reliability
48. All about ERMI? Short History, what we do & why we’re doing it Collaboration How we work together without killing each other Building ERMI Sustainable development using the cloud… man
49. Building ERMI Sustainable development using the cloud… man
50. The value is in the output.
51. We Are Not Big Data. We are Detailed Data
52. Keeping it Simple.
53. Data CPU Threads
54. Docker Container
55. AWS Batch Jobs & Lambda
56. 1000 CPUs for one hour each One CPU for 1000 hours =
57. Many Runs of fundamentally Simple Software
58. We Don’t Exist (most of the time)
59. All about ERMI? Short History, what we do & why we’re doing it Collaboration How we work together without killing each other Building ERMI Sustainable development using the cloud… man
60. Thank You. Credits: Icons from the Noun Project Thanks to my team