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Track Talk W5

How Minimalism Helps Build High-Quality Products

Lina Zubyte

12:00-12:45 CEST Wednesday 14th June

“Let’s get a new tool, it will solve our problem” – when I hear this, I cringe. I love tools, but a lot of times as humans we tend to overengineer, oversolutionize, and overcomplicate our situations with too quick solutioning. Do we even understand the problem well enough?

As a quality analyst, I often ask questions that may be uncomfortable: it’s much easier to try to add a band-aid on a wound than to reflect on how to prevent it altogether. However, it’s necessary. Do not despair, though, I have some good news! It’s… reasonably simple.

In this talk, I’ll share what thoughts we could take from minimalism, and apply them in the exciting tech world. I’ll remind you of some valuable techniques for better efficiency, and, hopefully, inspire you to simplify your work ways.

What you will learn

  1. Tools are just helpers: they should not be the main actors in our work. As Agile Manifesto states, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" (we'll also refresh the Agile Manifesto ideas in this talk).
  2. The '5 Whys' technique is very helpful to find the root causes of the issues.
  3. Less is more: why that's a golden rule when it comes to tech as well.

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 45 Minutes
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • Methods of Collaboration
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Session Speaker

Lina Zubyte

Head of Quality – Doodle, Germany

Lina Zubyte is a passionate Quality Advocate who loves to ask questions, test, collaborate with diverse departments, and investigate issues. Lina has worked in companies of different sizes (large multinational companies and startups), moved between countries for work, and has had to adapt quickly to get out of her comfort zone. She shares her writings on all things quality at Qualitybits.tech, hosts a podcast of the same name – Quality Bits – and you can find her on twitter as @buggylina.

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