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We talk a lot about minimising cognitive load, managing cognitive debt, reducing team cognitive load, and other scientific-sounding endeavours on our path to improving the efficacy of software teams. But what if we are starting from a false premise? As one of the people responsible for introducing the idea of cognitive load to at least some of the Team Topologies folks, I feel a mea culpa duty of care to put my hand up and suggest we might be getting it all wrong, and that modern teaming strategies might be making things worse instead of better. What if there is no such thing as "intrinsic" cognitive load, "extraneous" is extraneous, and "germane" is just one of the Jacksons? I want to take a fresh look at cognitive load to see if we can genuinely make life easier for ourselves. Room: CTRL | Time: Tue, 10:05am - 10:25am Speaker: Daniel Terhorst-North Consultant, coder, coach, invented Behaviour-Driven Development, contributed to Continuous Delivery LinkedIn:   / tastapod   Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to optimize businesses via his consulting practice, Goalwards (https://goalwards.co). He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile methods. With over three decades of experience in IT, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences worldwide. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Daniel has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. He occasionally blogs at https://dannorth.net/blog. FastFlowConf UK 2026, London https://www.fastflowconf.com #FastFlowConf #TeamTopologies #London #CognitiveLoad #EngineeringLeadership