Ward Cunningham – Keynote: Observation of Emergent Schema in Organized Development

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Explore DDD 2017 – Denver, Sept. 21-22

The original wiki was founded to understand engineering at a social level, first within one company and then more broadly around the world. Ward and his team asked not for advice but for personal experience, what parts worked and why.

The agile methods incubated in wiki have enabled a pace and scale of development unimaginable at its founding. Now, situated within rapid development, Ward’s team found a new way to observe and understand the software and the people who make it.

In this keynote, Ward describes methods, similar to data warehousing, but with the same interests as the original wiki. The system captures from existing data a broad picture of what has been built and puts this in service of its continuing evolution.

About Ward

Ward Cunningham has worked for and consulted with daring startups and huge corporations. He has served as CTO, Director, Fellow, Principal Engineer, and Inventor. He is best known for creating wiki. He leads an open-source project rebuilding wiki to solve more complex sharing situations addressing some of society's toughest problems. Ward founded movements in object-oriented, agile software, extreme programming, and pattern languages. Ward lives in Portland, Oregon and works for New Relic, Inc.

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