In this episode, Claudia Melo, head of technology for ThoughtWorks Latin America, talks to Johannes Thönes about Brazil about Open Source Software and the startup scene in Brazil. As an associate researcher for the University of São Paulo, Claudia has started a research project to compare the startup scenes in the United States, in Israel and in Brazil.

In this episode, we speak with Hao Xu, Head of Technology for ThoughtWorks China, about how to break down role divisions within a team and create collaborative environments. We touch on how economic theory and management theory created the divided, hierarchical workplace, and why today’s knowledge work is poorly suited to these structures. We close by discussing various techniques, such as capability radars and onboarding practices, that help to break down role divisions in product teams.

In this episode, we speak with Rachel Laycock, market technology principal for New York, and Jeff Norris, technology principal in San Francisco, about growing the next generation of technologists within your organization. We talk about practices and strategies that technical leaders can use to help their colleagues grow, as well as how to structure a team such that all members can simultaneously teach and learn from others.

This episode of the ThoughtWorks podcast focuses on the advancement of technology across the African continent. The guest in this episode, Brain Leke, head of technology for ThoughtWorks in Pan Africa, shares his thoughts with Johannes Thönes. They discuss the particular challenges Africa has as a technology location, but also how the limits actually encourage innovations. Leke also talk about the efforts ThoughtWorks is making to grow African technologists and the influence of Open Source in the continent. Because we talked about it in this episode. Africa had 1.1 billion people in 2013.

In this episode of the ThoughtWorks Podcast, Neal Ford explains to Johannes Thönes what architectural considerations can be derived from the DevOps movement. This episode is a quick introduction to what Microservices are, what kind of architectural principles can be used to implement them, what a good test strategy for microservices can can look like. We also explain why you should have a continuous delivery practice running before starting to develop Microservices.

Dan McClure is the Innovation Design Practice Lead at ThoughtWorks. In this interview, by Johannes Thöenes, Dan discusses definitions of and misconceptions about innovation.

Johannes Thönes talks to James Lewis, principal consultant at ThoughtWorks, about microservices. They discuss microservices’ recent popularity, architectural styles, deployment, size, technical decisions, and consumer-driven contracts. They also compare microservices to service-oriented architecture and wrap up the episode by talking about key figures in the microservice community and standing on the shoulders of giants. Recording venue: ThoughtWorks North Europe Away Day, Sherwood Forest, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK This track also appeared on se-radio.net.

Johannes of Software Engineering Radio (http://www.se-radio.net) talks with Rachel Laycock and Max Lincoln from ThoughtWorks about continuous delivery on Windows. The outline includes: introduction to continuous delivery; continuous integration; DevOps and ChatOps; decisions to be taken when implementing continuous delivery on windows; build tools on windows; packaging and deploy on windows; infrastructure automation and infrastructure as code with chef, puppet or ansible; snowflake server versus phoenix server; Windows PowerShell; the relation between open source and Microsoft tools; why not to use Linux; current development in the windows DevOps space; licensing and proprietary software in continuous delivery. This discussion was recorded live at the ThoughtWorks North American Away Day, The Westin Peachtree, Atlanta, Georgia

Gary O'Brien and Barry O'Reilly presenting Lean Enterprise at ThoughtWorks Live Australia in May 2014.

A talk delivered in Pecha Kucha format by ThoughtWorks consultant Chris Ford. This talk covers how software development culture has been captured in the form of various "laws".