How Not to Release Software

You’ve seen a million best practice talks. In this session I’ll review mistakes that were made and lessons learned. Come laugh, groan, and cringe, as we review:

- When scope doesn’t just creep, it gallops

- Death sprints: the agile way to approach a death march

- Testing: how to do an abysmal job and how to do a good enough job to feel wildly overconfident. Bonus: how to make your software untestable!

- Configuration and database migrations (as if the code wasn’t hard enough)

- How to make operations hate you by requiring encyclopaedic knowledge to push out a release

Attendees will leave confident that they will never make these mistakes (again). They’ll make new and original ones instead.