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The Beauty of Simple Michael Boelen NLUUG - May 16th, 2017 Today Define simple Challenge complexity Simplify your life @mboelen Simple Keep it simple, stupid. Kelly Johnson, KISS principle Simplicity is

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The Beauty

  • f Simple

Michael Boelen

NLUUG - May 16th, 2017

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Today

  • Define ‘simple’
  • Challenge complexity
  • Simplify your life

@mboelen

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“Simple”

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Keep it simple, stupid.

Kelly Johnson, KISS principle

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger W. Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975).

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Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

Ward Cunningham, "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work"

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Simplicity — the art of maximizing the amount of work not done — is essential.

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto (2001).

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Less is more.

Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto (1855).

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Complexity

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Choices

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Choices

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Up VS .…?

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Confusion

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Useless Errors

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Reading

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Chartjunk

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Chartjunk-example.svg

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How to kill complexity?

  • First impression
  • Simplicity
  • Next step
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Example: Open Source Projects

  • Good description, “Get started”
  • Colors, sane defaults
  • Show log file, link with more details
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Simplify Life

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How?

  • Identify
  • Reduce
  • Organize
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Method: 5S

  • Seiri (整理)

Sort

  • Seiton (整頓)

Set in order

  • Seisō (清掃)

Shine

  • Seiketsu (清潔)

Standardize

  • Shitsuke (躾)

Sustain

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More

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Thanks

(and enjoy the conference!)

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Programming

  • You aren't gonna need it (YAGNI)
  • Don’t repeat yourself (DRY)
  • Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  • Feature creep, creeping featurism or

featuritis

  • Principle of good enough
  • Wirth's law (software VS hardware)