Software Development Technologies at
Better Software East 2011

Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:45 PM
Orlando, Florida
Rosen Centre Hotel

What's Surgery Got To Do with Improving Software Practices?
Keynote - Edward Kit, Software Development Technologies

Surgeons and software professionals-now those are two occupations you probably haven't seen in the same sentence until now. It is fascinating to see what real life lessons we can learn from successful process improvement programs adopted by another group of professionals: medical surgeons. Many practices of early surgeons-trial and error, lack of standards, failure to measure and share outcomes, and more-bear a striking resemblance to software professionals and practices today. Ed Kit looks back at the important lessons learned from more than 150 years of key improvements that surgeons adopted and how these lessons relate to our young industry. Offering a practical approach that you can take back to your team and organization, Ed describes how to institute process and practice improvements that will become-quite simply-the way you work. Based on his more than twenty years of helping transform testing and development teams around the world, Ed shares what it really takes to sustain effective adoption of changes that will improve software delivery capability.