Failure 101: What life lessons can teach us about better software development

Much like software development, life is full of mistakes, mis-steps and broken ambitions; the failed career, burnt toast, the not-quite-what-I-ordered item you bought online. Let's face it, working in software development is hard and we've all been the victim of a failed development project, dissatisfied stakeholders and abandoned half-functional prototypes. And if you've ever taken part in the post-mortem retrospective of failed project, you know that sometimes it's not exactly clear where a project falls down. Using a series of mistakes from my life, this talk will walk you through identifying three pitfalls that cause failure in software development, and how we can learn to avoid them.