About the Workshop:
Developing and delivering systems in "phases" is standard macro-incremental development. However, delivering incrementally each quarter is still consider suspect in some industries. The thought of "growing" software in micro-increments of days, or nano-increments of minutes is a stretch for most people.
However, the economics support taking incremental development down to the nano- level, minutes to hours, and this is even without AI.
In this very hands-on workshop, Dr. Alistair Cockburn, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, will show you exactly how to take almost any software initiative and slice it thinly - from steak to sashimi to carpaccio - and the economic benefits of doing so.
The workshop contains the famous "Elephant Carpaccio" in which attendees pair up to deliver and demo a simple problem using either spreadsheets or programming, in (no kidding) 8-minute nano-increments. People don't believe it until they see it happen under their fingertips.
Never be afraid to ask for or defend incremental development again - Learn why to do it, how to do it, and how to defend it.
Level - All levels, beginner to expert
Please Bring - A laptop to either program or create a spreadsheet in
When - 05/20/2026 | 2.30pm - 6.00pm
Where - Austria Center Vienna | Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1 | 1220 Vienna
Alistair Cockburn
Dr. Alistair Cockburn (pronounced CO-BURN) was named as one of the “42 Greatest Software Professionals of All Times" in 2020. He is a world expert on software development methodologies, project management, software architecture, use cases and agile development. He co-authored both the Agile Manifesto and the Project Management Declaration of Inter-dependence. Since 2015 he has been working on expanding agile to cover every kind of initiative, including social impact project, governments, and families. For his latest work, see https://alistaircockburn.com/.