Codurance Fireside Chats

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar and Spain's Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss if teams should or should not estimate and the challenges of doing it. What do we need estimates for? At what level? How do we deal with uncertainties? Are there alternatives? This is another very thought-provoking fireside chat. 

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 23 in video here: https://bit.ly/33Txjj0 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar and Spain's Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss how coupling and cohesion can affect not only software design but also organisation design. What are coupling and cohesion? How do they affect each other? How those essential software principles can be applied at the organisation level?

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 22 in video here: https://bit.ly/32xykww 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar and Spain's Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss the importance of values for a software team. But are they enough? Do teams really care about it? Do we need other low-level agreements? How do they map to values?

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 21 in video here: https://bit.ly/3pjR37E 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar and Spain's Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss how effective we really are. What is effectiveness? How does it relate to efficiency, leadership, teamwork and expectation management? Is there a way to measure individual and team effectiveness? What are the techniques we use? Those are just a few of the topics discussed in another very insightful discussion.

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 20 in video here: https://bit.ly/3mul8zn 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, the Codurance co-founder Sandro Mancuso, Spain Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta and Special Guest for this episode, the Regional Director for UK South, Steve Lydford discuss their journey from expert engineers to "terrible" managers. This is a common phenomenon experienced by many software engineers as they evolve in their careers. What are the challenges in this transition? Is this a natural evolution? What is the skill mismatch? How to cope with stress and pressure? Those are just a few topics covered in this very insightful episode.

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 19 in video here: https://bit.ly/3FqUsar 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, our co-founders Sandro Mancuso, Mashooq Badar, and Spain Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss why do we learn what we learn. How does our learning shape who we are? Why do we choose to learn certain things and not others? How do our learning interests and subjects change over time? 

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 18 in video here: https://bit.ly/32qL206 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso, Mashooq Badar, and Spain Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss how to grow development teams in the current market conditions and the implication it has on the "quality bar" used during the interview process. There is a shortage of software professionals and remote work made completion for talent to be global. Companies need to grow but not always find the most suitable talent for their needs. What should they do? Lower the bar? But what is this bar? What else can they do? Growing people seems an answer but it is slow and quite expensive. This is a fascinating fireside chat that will be helpful to many different companies that are struggling to grow.

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 17 in video here: https://bit.ly/3EiBWQd 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso, Mashooq Badar, and Spain Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss how different types of architectures impact different aspects of the organisation. They covered the relationship between architecture and collaboration models, technical ownership, compliance to regulations and certifications, team organisation by skills or business goals, and much more.

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 16 in video here: https://bit.ly/32uW5VQ 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso, Mashooq Badar, and Spain Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss how people, teams and business should be aligned. Should we keep teams immutable but give them different missions over time? Should we keep them aligned to a business domain? Or should we create and recreate teams to satisfy evolving business needs? Another very insightful conversation and loads of food for thought.

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 15 in video here: https://bit.ly/33Nkjv3 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso, Mashooq Badar, and Spain Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta discuss how we can convince our teams to adopt technical practices. This is a question we get all the time. Convincing people to work in a different way is very challenging but can also be very rewarding. Why do we often fail to do that? What can we do to improve the chances of introducing new technical practices? This was another very insightful conversation.

The idea of the Fireside chat series is to record informal conversations between the three regular hosts. Topics are normally decided just before we start recording. Our objective is to have spontaneous conversations instead of something more structured or scripted.

Watch the Fireside chat 14 in video here: https://bit.ly/3svoeqP 

For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.