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Technical Decision-making Anti-patterns

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Francesco Strazzullo (AKA Strazz) @TheStrazz86 (Follow me on Twitter!) Ego Slide

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Books https://leanpub.com/decision-making-for-software-development-teams https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484249666

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How to make mindful decisions —

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How to not make mindful decisions —

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Hype-Driven Development 1

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Why is it a problem? —

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Exploiting Hype —

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Gartner Hype Cycle by Jeremykemp at English Wikipedia, CC BYSA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Some Tips to Tackle it —

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Innovations Tokens https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

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The Usual Path 2

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“if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” Law of the instrument

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Why it happens? —

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“we have some kind of "imposed" deadline that they cannot miss, so we stick with what we know best. In this way, if we will miss the deadline we can defend ourselves in some way.” “The company does not provide any kind of means - times or money - for training. We need to study new stuff during their free time, so we don’t feel confident enough to build something without the proper training” “There are some strange and cumbersome company procedures to ask permission to build something that can astray from the usual path.”

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Some Tips to Tackle it —

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Training Path and Budget

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The Expert 3

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Context is King

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Complicated Problems, not Strategic Decisions

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Rage-Driven Decisions 4

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Why is it a problem? —

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Retrospective / Project Postmortems

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What they have in common? _

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Bad Communication Structures

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Thanks! Francesco Strazzullo strazz@flowing.it