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2009 Session: Our Obsession with Efficiency

Wednesday, 13:10 - 14:00
Track: Agile Ways

So here's the thing, I don't believe in efficiency. It's our obsession with efficiency that has got us into the current technology mess, and which has led almost directly to heavy waterfall processes. Efficiency is how you let the big vendors sell their bloated technologies to the poor CIOs. 

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Dan North

Dan has been writing software for over 15 years, and is a principal consultant with technology consultancy ThoughtWorks. He spends his time helping teams become more effective at delivering software, and presents at conferences such as JAOO, Agile and OOPSLA on topics ranging from learning theory to behaviour-driven development. He has published articles in the Java Developers' Journal and Better Software, and for CIO newsletters and the DSDM consortium. 

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