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Odd Parallels Between Weightlifting and Software Delivery

Jim Holmes
October 06, 2021
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Odd Parallels Between Weightlifting and Software Delivery

Presented at Centric Consulting's CampIO, an internal technology conference.

This talk speaks to interesting things I re-learned while starting highly technical Olympic weightlifting. In the midst of lots of hard work I found my mind wandering to interesting ideas about the criticality of breaking complex things into small pieces, the importance of having a coach, setting goals, and several other similar things. There were so many parallels between what I was learning in the gym and approaches I use daily in my day job working in software delivery.

The deck is my usual gonzo style, but you may find it interesting. I hope to post a public video of the talk sometime in November, 2021.

Jim Holmes

October 06, 2021
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Transcript

  1. Odd Parallels Between
    Weightlifting
    and
    Software Delivery

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  2. Unsplash.com @micahtindall

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  4. Unsplash.com @aloragriffiths

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  6. “Lift weights”

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  7. “It will be fun”

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  8. Epiphany

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  9. Re-Learning

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  10. What we learn
    in one domain
    can apply to
    far different
    domains

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  11. Unsplash.com @myLeon

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  12. Make Complex
    Things Simple

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  13. https://youtu.be/GKmu1x2Qnc0

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  14. https://youtu.be/ygoz0ANCcto

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  18. Sizing
    Workflows
    Domain Problems

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  23. Get a Coach

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  24. LeARniNg
    iZ
    HaR d

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  26. TDD
    React
    SalesForce Insurance
    Domain
    Cool Tech
    Du Jour
    SharePoint

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  27. Mentors for us
    Us for our clients

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  28. Unsplash.com @heylagostechie

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  29. Simple Tools
    Solve Problems

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  32. Cowbell 4.5.b(3)r3
    may not help the
    client

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  33. Form first,
    then weight

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  35. Katas
    TDD
    ATDD
    WebScale

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  36. Set Goals

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  39. Performance Testing
    JavaScript
    Mobile

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  40. (Please, no
    SharePoint)

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  41. So What’s the
    Lesson?

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  42. Learning Happens
    EVERYWHERE

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  43. Suss out the gold
    Apply it in other
    places

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