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We use the Cynefin Framework in our cloud modernisation work. 
Dave Snowden created the Cynefin framework. Cynefin, pronounced "ku-nev-in," is a Welsh word that translates as "place" or "habitat." However, it can also be used to describe the elements of our situation and personal history that influence our thoughts and decisions in ways we don't understand.

It's a sense making framework. As architects, we find that the Cynefin framework is a good thinking model.

In the Cynefin framework there are four domains and a fifth disorder domain. The first four domains are: 
1. Clear, when something is well understood, 
2. Complicated, it's understood by few, 
3. Complex, where there are a lot of unknowns. 
4. Chaos, when you don't know what's happening. 

The 5th domain in the middle is called Confused. 

If you understand which domain you're in, you can assess where you're at, and if you're not aware of where you are, you're just confused. 

When you deal with situations and teams, it's sometimes easy to see the problem or situation. It falls under one of the domains and there are a bunch of practices to apply. 

When something's well understood and clear, the practices are different than for something that's complex. There are different ways for you to handle situations. And if you're a manager, there are different ways to manage.  

A chaotic project needs different practices to a project that you know well and when know what to do. 

We explain each of the domains and we apply them to Software Development.

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ServerlessDays Belfast 2024.

ServerlessDays Belfast is back at Titanic Hotel Belfast on Thursday 23rd May 2024

Our theme is 'Building Beyond Boundaries: ServerlessDays Belfast celebrates the spirit of Innovation'. Find out why you should come to the birthplace of Titanic and what you can expect from this year's ServerlessDays Belfast.

From the 100-year-old Drawing Offices at Titanic Hotel Belfast, we will celebrate how the Serverless Mindset enables engineers and organisations to break barriers and build like never before. We ask our speakers to speak of the courage, ambition and resiliency needed to build big. We will showcase international and local speakers, attracting interest across Europe and the US. Most importantly, we want to inspire Engineers in Ireland, the UK and the local tech community. 

Serverless has transcended technology and is now a synonym for Digital Transformation. Engineers working for large and small organisations need a dedicated space to hear and share innovation stories, with Serverless First as the enabler. Senior executives sense that Serverless is at the intersection of technology and business. Everyone needs a network to access the playbook for the Modern Cloud.

Everyone is welcome, especially:
Engineers who are curious by nature are excited to explore new technologies and ways of working.
Leaders seeking the latest solutions and innovations, including product managers, programme directors, and CTOs.
This event is a dedicated space for you to network, share, learn and become inspired about Serverless and Modern Cloud. We look forward to seeing you there!

What’s on offer
Food and Beverages
ServerlessDays Speaker Agenda: Listen to renowned experts on Serverless
Network with fellow attendees

ServerlessDays Belfast 2024 Call for Papers
We’re looking for speakers who can share their stories about how serverless technology has helped them achieve amazing things.
The theme for this year’s event is “Building Beyond Boundaries”. We want to celebrate the spirit of Innovation and share stories of real change. Tell us about something incredible that happened, how you felt and how the tech helped out.
If you’re interested in speaking, submit your talk by March 31st!
We will cover travel and accommodation expenses for speakers living outside commuting distance.
Take advantage of this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with the serverless community on the island of Ireland.
Learn more and submit your talk on Sessionize. 

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The Software Development Lifecycle - how does it apply to modern cloud?

We are kicking off this episode with the term modern SDLC. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is changing. When you get into this new way of working, you start differently. It's no longer a straight waterfall/ABCD, or starting with an established system like SCRUM and iterating. So how do you get into a fast flow state? We have discovered a lot of things over the past couple of years. In this episode, we talk you through the phases of the modern software development lifecycle.

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We talk about what we would like to see announced at this years AWS re:Invent 2023 looking at Observability, Generative AI, PartyRock, Developer Experience to name a few.

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Team Engineering with SCORP - there are practices we do like SCORP, which is our agile way of doing well-architected in every sprint with teams. Our practices are connected to engineering excellence, looking at what you're doing and constantly improving. And HP (high performing engineering), as a way of capturing key metrics to define good engineering or architecture, and then talk about it as a team.

Even though the practices are out there, it's really just a mindset.

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There were a few stories in the news about working remotely from another country. We talk about the pros and cons of working remotely versus returning to work. We work remotely and are globally distributed, but we've worked for many years in the office to, so we have experience of both to make a fair analysis.

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Developer Productivity and discussions on developers and productivity have never gone away. You heard people talking about this in the 80s and the idea of paying developers by lines of code. And it was even rubbished in the 80s as a foolish thing to do. 
There's a famous story about developers removing bad code from the code base and having negative numbers by the end of the week and then asking if they have to pay the company back money. It's never been a good idea. It strikes me as strange that in 2023, we are having the same discussion.

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How important is Resilience Hub, Chaos Testing and Well-Architected?
We attended the AWS Resilience Day at the Titanic Hotel. We were sitting in the same room where the ill-fated Titanic was designed and drawn! We discuss what we learned. Including the tools and strategies that help software engineers build resilience that were not available for the Titanic engineers. And we talk about the fact that it isn't just one thing that leads to disaster for ships or workloads.

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Bringing mapping to your org. 

We are doing a wee series on Wardley Mapping, with some practical items. The last two episodes were: 'Wardley Mapping 101' and 'Can Wardley Maps Predict the Future?'. So I thought it would be good to answer a common question: 'That's a cool technique, but how would I do that in my work?'. If you follow Simon Wardley, on Twitter, and you've started experimenting with Wardley Mapping, we tell you how you to bring Wardley Mapping to your place of work.

We talk about using the Northstar exercise to facilitate mapping. And about finding like-minded people to sit and practice with. There is a way of talking about mapping. You're better to start with the outcomes. And then see if people are interested to get back into the map, as a way of sensemaking complicated areas. It's great to make sense of something and share that thinking with peers. And once you get into that language, you open up a common way of thinking and the idea of evolution to access things you want to talk about it.

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Can Wardley Maps predict the future, is our topic this week.

In our last episode, we talked about Wardley Mapping. We did a 101 last time, explaining the basics.

One of the things that we say is that Wardley Mapping is a superpower that helps you predict the future. What do we mean by that? It's like a fortune teller. But it doesn't tell you when exactly something's going to happen. It's the state of mind that it puts you in. We run through a couple of examples, to demonstrate how we've done it in the past.

1. Conversational Programming
2. Generative AI
3. Well-Architected
4. Serverless
5. CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

If you have good situational awareness, you can wait until the appropriate time. You don't have to go off and waste energy, cycles and money trying custom build something. Wait three months and you'll get what you're trying to achieve.

When you map this stuff out, you can start to think about how your sensing engine can get intel on whether these things are going to happen or not. There are lots of different ways you can do that. Like following Twitter feeds and looking at blogs. And looking at who they're hiring and following the industry experts. They're points of information that can help you see how things will evolve. To predict the way things are going to go. There are multiple levels of maturity in your map and how you think it's going move and where the evolution is going to happen.

Wardley Mapping can be used to predict the future but it's not going to give you an exact date. What it can do is give you an example of this is what it will look like if it happens. So you prepare yourself for when it does. And then when the press release comes out, you're like, boom, we're ready. We saw that coming. So it's the no 'surprise approach' to building situational awareness. 

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