Putting Meaning Back into Computing Today: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King
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The talk examines why recurring claims that particular practices or disciplines (like UX, agility, TDD, etc.) are “dead” keep reappearing across computing’s shifting eras. It traces the evolution from closed, enterprise‑only systems through the web bubble and the spread of methodologies, and argues for a pragmatic view of why methodologies rise and fall rather than seeking one single tool to rule them all.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00The king is dead, long live the king
- 3:45The History of the Agile Manifesto
- 4:45The History of Scrum
- 6:36How Do We Implement a 2-Year MAP Wheel?
- 10:56The Phantom Menace
- 15:45The king is dead
- 18:38Research and Be Flexible
- 27:05As a Community, Should We Eradicate the Agile Industrial Complex?
- 28:43Research
- 30:25We Do a Lot of Things That Don’t Make Sense
- 30:55Minimalism Is a Matter of Choice
- 33:38Realizing You’ve Made a Mistake
- 40:20The Fundamental Difference in Intelligence Between Great Apes and Humans
