Codurance Fireside Chats
Unscripted conversations around the business of software development. Global software consultancy, Codurance, Co-Founders, Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar and Spain Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta share their everyday informal conversations, filter-free, without edits, about a range of different topics, often after work, with a drink in hand. The fireside chats don’t necessarily represent how Codurance currently behaves as a company, but they help rethink ideas and use some of the insights to adjust the ways of working in this thriving industry.
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Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
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 43 in video here: Episode 43
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
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 42 in video here: Episode 42
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
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 41 in video here: https://youtu.be/f-N6J4-xDfA
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
In this episode of the Fireside Chats the hosts discuss Agile ceremonies, where they come from and if as an industry we should get rid of them, and what would we use instead?
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 40 in video here: https://youtu.be/PN7wct8lh3c
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
In this Fireside Chat we discuss do we need so many roles in a software project? How many roles do we need? Does it vary from project to project? Can a team exist without any roles? Are overlaps a good thing? and if so how do you create them? What are the benefits and pitfalls of appointing roles?
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
In part 2 we continue the conversation about some of the most common problems found in legacy systems and how to deal with them.
Feel free to leave a comment if there's a particular legacy systems topic you would like us to expand on. For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
In this fireside chat, we discuss some of the most common problems found in legacy systems and how to deal with them. We start our conversation by discussing the perception of complexity and the famous big ball of mud. We also touch upon the fear of changing code, how to isolate changes, the challenges of work parallelization, and testing strategies.This is a big topic and there is a lot to be discussed yet. We are considering doing a mini-series on this topic. Let us know if you would like us to talk more about legacy systems and which particular area you would like us to expand on.For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
In this Fireside chat, we discuss how do you start projects well? Discussing questions such as should we do any planning to start a project? and if yes, how much? What do we need to plan, the scope? the team and skills? expectations? risks? We also ask the question is the start of the project just about the plan? What do we need to get right and how do we manage expectations? This episode was live.
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 36 in video here: https://youtu.be/6WTNVwejQcE
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
In this Fireside chat, we discuss the entitled programmer. Focusing on questions such as is there an issue in the industry with entitlement, diva behaviour or elitism? When is entitlement, not entitlement? Is there a context that is not something we can dismiss? Is it only this industry or something that impacts every industry? As well as understanding where we think it comes from, what impact it has and what can be done about it.
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 31 in video here: https://youtu.be/4TNVjRP3xVg
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
In this live streamed Fireside chat, we discuss how bad (or not) design upfront is. What are the problems with design upfront? What are the problems without design upfront? How about product strategy vs technical strategy? How much do you need to plan upfront and for what reasons? As well as understanding if developers are good at design and have the interest to do it? If not, how do they react when it is done by someone else? These are just some of the topics covered in this live 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 31 in video here: https://youtu.be/GTSmw__4g_o
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.