Software Crafts Podcast

Sander is the guest of this week. We will share his experiences with the pattern “Reproducible development environments” from the Cloud Native Patterns repository (https://www.cnpatterns.org/development-design/reproducible-dev-environments). Sander will teel his experience from software engineer to tech director, and his path to be pragmatic. We discuss the benefits of automation to onboard new people into teams, where they can feel included, and contribute to the product.

Sander recommends the following resources:

• Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners from Pat Kua
• Follow Pat Kua on Twitter
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders from L. David Marquet

Sander (@codenizer) is Tech Director for Jedlix. Over the last decade, he worked in different countries, ranging from banking to e-commerce industries. Sander is also public speaker, blogger and amateur athlete.

Parveen Khan is our guest! This episode she will give her opinion and experiences about the heuristic “You get what you measure” from the Xebia Essentials repository (https://essentials.xebia.com/what-you-measure/). She will share how she measures her goals to drive her career, and how she fell in love with Observability. We discuss how the role of a tester changed across the last decade, and how siloed communities started to pivot to join efforts around common concerns for teams that create software.

Parveen recommends:

• O11y Cast (https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/o11ycast/) 
• Ministry of Testing (https://www.ministryoftesting.com/)
• Test Automation University (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/) 

Parveen (@Parveen_Khan10) is a Senior Test Engineer at Square Marble Technology. Being a quality advocate, she believes delivering high-quality products is everyone's responsibility. She loves collaborating with teams and optimising processes, tools and methodologies to enable the creation of high-quality products. She is also an international speaker sharing her stories and experiences in testing to inspire other people around the globe. In her spare time, she plays the role of wonder woman for her two lovely kids. You can connect with her on Twitter - @Parveen_Khan10 and read her stories at https://www.parveenkhans.com/.

And a new episode is out. This week our guest is Ben Mosior, and we will ramble about the heuristic “Prefer rich modes of communication” from the Xebia Essentials repository (https://essentials.xebia.com/rich-communication/). Our discussion will be centre on communication, from synchronous to asynchronous, from visual to verbal. Ben will share his opinion on the effects on bad communication in sociotechnical systems, and how good communication, such as Wardley Maps, can have a positive effect to get focus, from individual to organisation level.

Ben recommends:

• Learn Wardley Mapping (https://learnwardleymapping.com/)
• Working with Stories in Your Community Or Organization: Participatory Narrative Inquiry from Cynthia Kurtz (https://www.workingwithstories.org/) 

Ben (@hiredthought) is an indie consultant who teaches Wardley Mapping and other ways to do stuff on purpose. Creator of the Learn Wardley Mapping (https://learnwardleymapping.com/)  website, he is also a blogger, podcaster, trainer and public speaker!

Pat Kua is our guest for this episode. He will share his thoughts on the pattern “Decide Closest to the Action” from the Cloud Native Patterns repository (https://www.cnpatterns.org/organization-culture/decide-closest-to-the-action). We will discuss technical leadership and management. What that means for a technical management role, and what are the pitfalls, and how to create a healthy environment.

Pat recommends “Thinking in System” by Donella Meadows.

Patrick Kua (@patkua) is a seasoned technology leader with almost 20 years of experience. His personal passion is accelerating the growth and success of tech organisations and technical leaders. He has had many years of hands-on experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and Building Evolutionary Architectures and runs the free popular newsletter for leaders in tech, “Level Up” (http://levelup.patkua.com) and the Tech Lead Academy, offering online training for technical leaders. You can find him online on twitter as @patkua or running his very popular “Shortcut to Tech Leadership” workshop.

In this week’s episode, we have Nick Tune as our guest. He will rumble about the heuristic “The ability to improve a design occurs primarily at the interfaces. This is also the prime location for screwing it up.” from the Embedded Artistry repository (https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/04/26/embedded-rules-of-thumb/). We discuss how software design is affected by the environment, and how can we cope with that pressure. He also shares his heuristics to improve collaboration, and how silver bullets can damage our culture.

Nick recommends:

• Follow Ruth Malan on Twitter (@ruthmalan)
• Team Topologies from Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
• Wardley Mapping (https://medium.com/wardleymaps)

Nick (@ntcoding) is The Connector of Dots. Keynote speaker, author of several books, and community leader, he is involved with the Domain-Driven Design community.

Jessy Halison is our guest for episode 18. She will share her experiences about the pattern "Manage for Creativity from Cloud Native Patterns repository (https://www.cnpatterns.org/organization-culture/manage-for-creativity). We will discuss organisational models, and how psychology safety is key for teams and individuals to grow. She also describes how inclusion and diversity are key to a creative environment.

Jessy recommends:

• Non-violent communication: https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com 
• Bunch.ai: https://bunch.ai/ (access to their "Teams@Work" community: https://bunch.ai/slack-community) 
• Radical Candor, by Kim Scott: https://www.radicalcandor.com/the-book/ 
• Ecosia: https://www.ecosia.org/ 

Jessy (@JessyFanja) is a QA Engineer with more than 10 years turned Engineering Manager, with people well-being at heart. She works for a socially conscious company: Ecosia, the search engine which plants trees.

In this episode, Tobias Goeschel shares his experiences with the pattern “Strangle Monolith Application” from Cloud Native Patterns repository (https://www.cnpatterns.org/development-design/strangle-monolithic-application). From the software crafting practices to his own bias, we chat about how he learns, and how we can advance our profession.

Tobias recommends:

• Domain-Driven Design community
• Software Crafting community
• DDD Europe conference - https://dddeurope.com/ 
• KanDDDisnky conference - https://kandddinsky.de/ 
• SoCraTes conferences - https://www.socrates-conference.de/home  
• Mob Programming
• Collaborative modelling
• EventStorming - https://www.eventstorming.com/ 
• Virtual DDD - https://virtualddd.com/ 

Tobias (@w3ltraumpirat) a Principal Consultant at codecentric, specialising in all things Software Crafting,  Domain-Driven Design and DevOps. He is older than he looks.

In this episode, Lisa Crispin shares her experiences with the pattern “Delayed Automation” from the Cloud Native Patterns repository (https://www.cnpatterns.org/development-design/delayed-automation). We discuss the different trade-offs of applying it, based on different contexts. I also ask a long-time question: What can we learn from donkeys? If you are curious why, donkeys are Lisa’s brand!

Lisa recommends:

• Quality Coaching Roadshow podcast from Anne-Marie Charrett
• Accelerate book from Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim
• Leading Quality book from Ronald Cummings-John and Owais Peer

Lisa Crispin (@lisacrispin) is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of three books: Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction, More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams; the LiveLessons Agile Testing Essentials video course, and “The Whole Team Approach to Agile Testing” 3-day training course offered through the Agile Testing Fellowship. Lisa was voted by her peers as the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person at Agile Testing Days in 2012. She is co-founder with Janet of Agile Testing Fellowship, Inc.  Please visit www.lisacrispin.com, www.agiletestingfellow.com, and www.agiletester.ca for more. Lisa is currently a Fellow Quality Owner at OutSystems, helping with the observability practice.

In this week episode, Andra Sonea is telling us when she focuses on the specific problem or distils the general solution. She will share her experiences based on the heuristic “Solve the specific problem, not the general case” from the Embedded Artistry repository (https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/04/26/embedded-rules-of-thumb/). We will discuss how-to share mental models with a team, even during pandemic times. From her experience in finance, we will dive into the patterns in an organisation change, with the different pitfalls. She will end up describing her unconventional approach to tech!

Andra recommends the 99% invisible podcast (https://99percentinvisible.org/).

For the past twenty years, Andra (@andrasonea) found herself working with banking and insurance technology. It was not called Fintech then, and it was not so cool as it is now. During this time she built systems, maintained systems made by others, worked on many so-called "transformations", advised start-ups and C-level executives of large banks on "next steps" & strategy. Left by herself, she likes to untangle complicated stuff. She spends her time between FintechOS, a scale-up she joined this year and her PhD in Urban Science at the University of Warwick.

In this episode, Julius Gamanyi is the guest. We will discuss the longest heuristic so far: “Past experience is excellent for providing a reality check. Too much reality can doom an otherwise worthwhile design, though” from Embedded Artistry repository (https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/04/26/embedded-rules-of-thumb/). We discuss how we can balance our experiences, from a personal, team and organisational point of view. We deep dive into the way that an IT architect supports teams into the decision-making process, balancing the trade-offs.

Julius recommends:

• Wardley Maps - http://wardleymaps.com
• Wardley Maps book - https://medium.com/wardleymaps

Julius (@juliusgb2k) is a Technology Architect at Accenture, having started there ten years ago as a Software Developer. He's still developing Software, mainly with Java. He's been wearing the Security Champion's hat too. As for the industry, he's currently working in Payments. Before that, he was in Public Services, Retail, and Transportation.

He enjoys a good book and is a fan of Wardley Mapping with all it entails. He blogs about once a month on his website (https://juliusgamanyi.com) and tweets at https://twitter.com/juliusgb2k.