Andy Hunt

By Andy Hunt

Agile methodologies are enjoying increased adoption and relevance. Will they continue to do so as time goes on? We understand that business needs change over time—sometimes quite rapidly. However, change isn’t limited to the business or the requirements. Markets will wax and wane. Developers and business owners will experience a change in their own views, become older, and slowly be replaced by the next generation of workers and thought leaders. In this future world, will agile continue to prosper, or will it flounder? What might agile be replaced with or evolve into?

Andy Hunt peeks into the future and considers some possible answers, including lessons from previous generations. He examines the effects of generational archetypes and how they affect adoption of core values. Learn how individuality, teamwork, risk tolerance, freedom, and stability will affect the future of agile practices, and find out the single biggest reason most predictions fail.

By Andy Hunt

Software development happens in your head; not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. We’re well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware—our own brains?

Join Andy Hunt for a look at how the brain really works (hint: it’s a dual-processor, shared bus design) and how to use the best tool for the job by learning to think differently about thinking. We’ll look at the importance of context and the role of expert intuition. You’ll see how to take advantage of pole-bridging and integration, compare different laterally-specialized functions such as synthesis vs. analysis, sequential processing and pattern-matching, and learn new techniques for harvesting internal clues.

Finally, you’ll discover one simple habit that separates the geniuses from the "wanna-bes."

By Andy Hunt

We make important decisions and try and solve critical problems everyday. But our decisions and problem solving is based on faulty memory and our emotional state at the time. We tend to ignore crucial facts and fixate on irrelevant details because of where and when they occur, or whether they are brightly colored. Especially if they are brightly colored.

Join Andy Hunt for this talk from his book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, that explores common cognitive biases which can dramatically affect your decision making and problem solving skills. You’ll learn why most predictions are wrong from the start. Together we’ll look at aspects of context which can subtly affect you, including generational affinity and personalty tendencies. Even your own brain’s legacy hardware can work against you, and you’ll learn how to recognize and stop that when it happens.