March 13-15, 2019
Montreal, Canada

Software Management Lessons from the 1960s

"The Mythical Man-Month" is one of the seminal books in the field of software project management. It was written in 1975, based on experience from the 1960s. Is it even still relevant?
Yes it is, yet too often we forget its lessons these days. This session will present a modern overview of the ideas presented by Brooks and a look at what we can still learn from them even today.

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Larry Garfield

Platform.sh

Larry Garfield has been building websites since he was a sophomore in high school. Larry was an active Drupal contributor and consultant for over a decade, and led the Drupal 8 Web Services initiative that helped transform Drupal into a modern PHP platform.

Larry is Director of Developer Experience at Platform.sh, a leading continuous deployment cloud hosting company, and a member of the PHP-FIG Core Committee.

Larry holds a Master’s degree from DePaul University.

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