Taking back "Software Engineering", craftsmanship is not enough

[2017-11-20 Mon 19:22:25] event: YOW! Nights speaker: Dave Farley

Evolution of production

• craft
  • generally of poor quality
• mass production
  • standardised components and steps
• lean production techniques
  • pull based
  • minimise waste

We got the model wrong

• eg heliocentrism vs geocentrism

All engineering is not the same

• different forms of engineering
• at different scales

Iterative development

• The Shard was built iteratively

Fundamentals of an “engineering” approach

• iterative
  • learn, react, adapt
• employs feedback
• incremental
  • modular system
  • eg Apollo lunar landing
  • small batch size
• experimental
  • The Ranger Programme
• empirical