This talk was recorded at NDC's Copenhagen Developer's Festival. #cphdevfest #ndcconferences #agile #microservices #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you: https://ndcconferences.com/ https://cphdevfest.com/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel and learn every day: /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTdw38Cw6jcm0atBPA39a0Q Have you ever thought about why what we see as the sensible defaults for software engineering in 2023 work? We adopt the key metrics from Accelerate, team structures from Team Topologies and Microservices in an effort to improve the flow of value to our users (or to a customer saying Thank You, paraphrasing Daniel Terhorst-North). But what is Value? What is Flow? James will use ideas from Information Theory and Complexity Science to peek into the domain model of our everyday experiences turning ideas into running software. Come along and explore the weird world of how work works. Warning, may cause you to reduce batch sizes, because maths.