Debug Your Thinking - Improving Decision-Making in Software Engineering

Explore how critical thinking can transform decision-making processes and elevate the quality of software solutions in this keynote address from NDC London 2024. Delve into the importance of decisions in building systems, going beyond programming languages, data stores, and deployment models. Learn to structure decisions, reflect on suboptimal choices, and debug the thinking process. Discover techniques for placing mental breakpoints, inspecting assumptions, and considering alternative options. Gain insights from two decades of software engineering experience on how to develop a more structured and streamlined thought process, leading to better-balanced decisions and improved solutions for users.