I started as a skeptic: as a developer I was cynical about the charts and documents that BAs produce. I mean, come on: we all know this thing is guaranteed to go out of date as business requirements change. "No plan survives contact with deployment", right?

What changed my perspective entirely was discovering executable system documentation in the form of BPMN - Business Process Model and Notation. With BPMN, the model is the code. If you're not familiar with BPMN, I'll give a brief introduction to it in this talk.

So, OK - you're sold on BPMN. But how do you get developers to start using it without having to sell the organisation on a BPMN monolith engine from the 90s? In a world of loosely-coupled microservices and autonomous development teams, "One Ring to Rule Them All" is a harder sell than a left-handed screwdriver.

I'll demo Zeebe, a modern, polyglot, horizontally-scalable workflow engine for microservices orchestration that will have the developers in your org demanding BPMN. It can be incrementally adopted with low risk, and provides an opportunity to expose developers to the "living systems documentation" of executable BPMN.

After getting my own feet wet with Zeebe and BPMN I discovered a new-found respect and appreciation for BAs. If nothing else, this is the opportunity to get developers and BAs on the same page - and deploy that page to production!

Consistently rated by audiences as "Literally the best tech-entertainment talk of all time".

"Magic is a power that allows people to do impossible things by saying special words."

How we discovered and developed Magikcraft, from hacking in a public library to meeting a global CEO in a Danish castle. From running on a computer found in a garbage bin to burning $187,000 of cloud credits. From a good idea to a worldwide phenomenon. Along the way we've succeeded, failed, pivoted, won competitions and funding, changed focus completely, and WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING.

If you want to create something from nothing and navigate uncertainty to arrive at awesome, then you don't want to miss this talk! Wherever you are in your journey, you will leave this talk inspired and with renewed vision. This is the last time this talk will be delivered in Australia before Magikcraft lifts off for Denmark. In the future people will ask you: "Where were you when the Magik™ Happened?®" This is your chance to be able to give the correct answer.