Brain & Quality Software presented by Alex Bolboaca & Maria Diaconu at OpenAgile Romania conference eLiberatica 2009

1. Brain & Software
Alex Bolboaca & Maria Diaconu
alexboly@gmail.com
Mosaic Works
mddiaconu@gmail.com

2. Brain stories
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3. Human Factor
Software engineering = managing
complexity for human beings
Security is a human issue
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4. Human Factor
User view
Business view
Technical view
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5. About the story tellers
Alex Bolboaca
Software Development Consultant & Trainer
Mosaic Works, Romania
www.mozaicworks.com
Maria Diaconu
Agile/Scrum Practitioner & Coach
Founder and Coordinator of Romanian Agile
community, AgileWorks Romania
Owner Mosaic Works, Romania
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6. Fundamental difficulty of software
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7. Fundamental difficulty of software
Software is an idea
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8. Brain evolution
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9. Brain issues: overuse of pattern
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10. Brain issues: prediction of future
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11. Brain issues: prediction of future
“Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her
daily cleaning with a hose” 1950s
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12. Brain issues: prediction of future
quot;I think there is a world
market for maybe five
computers.quot;
Thomas Watson, chairman of
IBM, 1943
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13. Brain issues: prediction of future
“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is
equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes
and weighs 30 tons, computers in the
future may have only 1,000 vacuum
tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.quot; -
Popular Mechanics, 1949
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14. Brain issues: prediction of future
quot;Radio has no future. Heavier-
than-air flying machines are
impossible. X-rays will prove to be
a hoax.quot;
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin,
British scientist, 1899.
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15. Brain issues: Causality

16. Brain issues: perception of randomness
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17. Brain issues: perception of numbers
One death is a tragedy, a
million deaths is statistics
Stalin
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18. Software stories
Best practices work around
brain issues
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19. Software stories – best practices
Estimation methods
Reviews (at all levels)
Feedback
Release early, release often
Definition of “Done”
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20. Brain, software and security
Knowing more about brain,
helps us create better
software
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21. Brain & Software
Alex Bolboaca & Maria Diaconu
Mosaic Works
www.mozaicworks.com
alexboly@gmail.com;mddiaconu@gmail.com
http://my.opera.com/alex_boly/
http://www.alexbolboaca.ro
Thank you!
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