Codurance Fireside Chats

Fireside Chat 33: What is a Minimum Viable Professional?

In this fireside chat, we discuss what it means to be a professional. What are the behaviours that make you feel someone is a good professional? What are the behaviours you consider not to be professional? What are the key attributes for a MVP? When looking for someone to give responsibilities to, what do you look for? Those are just some of the topics covered in this live episode.

Fireside Chat 32: How to set up an internal academy for developers and other software professionals?

In this fireside chat, we discussed the importance and challenges of creating an internal academy for software professionals. What problems we are trying to solve? What are the real challenges like time, money, and balancing time spent in learning and actually doing the work where that knowledge is required? Where do we start from? What learning areas should be prioritised? How to create learning tracks that can scale with the organisation? How to deal with the different needs of the organisation and individual needs? Those are just some of the topics we covered in this 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 32 in video here: https://youtu.be/wwhsD34Ab2o 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.  

Fireside Chat 31: Are we going back to the office?

It's been two years since we went from 5 days a week in the office to fully remote. What has been our experience adapting to remote work? Do we like it? Is remote working all we thought it would be? What are the challenges and how do we mitigate them? Given our own personal preferences, what are our plans regarding going back to the office?
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/aGAmOfDrGts 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.  

Fireside Chat 30: How relevant is Extreme Programming today?

In this fireside chat, we discuss the relevance of Extreme Programming today? Is XP still relevant? Have some of its practices been superseded by more modern methodologies or bodies of knowledge? Why not many companies or even developers talk about XP? Have practices like TDD outgrown XP? Is there a chance for XP to ever be widely adopted in full? Or it will be reduced down to a handful of practices? What would it take to make XP widely adopted today? This was another extremely insightful conversation enriched by a lot of historical information.
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 30 in video here: https://youtu.be/n1crdlzxnYc 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.  
 

Fireside Chat 29: Are code reviews a waste of time?

What do we need code reviews for? What should be discussed during a code review? Does pair programming eliminate the need for code reviews? What are the emotional impacts that code reviews can have on the team? How can we make code reviews useful and enjoyable? Those are just some of the topics we covered in another though-providing 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 29 in video here: https://youtu.be/Q0oKYyBIKVE
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.  

Fireside Chat 28: Driving Change

Who should be driving change and the motivation behind it? In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar and Spain's Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta ask and answer questions such as when do we know we need change and what are the main challenges that accompany it? Who's role is it to drive change? And what is the role of leaders within this?
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 28 in video here: https://youtu.be/QiUeHeWSwmU 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.  

Fireside Chat 27: Are team leads an anti-pattern?

What is the role of a team lead? Are they needed in an Agile environment? Are they at odds with self-organising teams? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a team lead? Can we nurture team leads? Is this a natural progression for developers? Those are just some of the topics we covered in another great 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 27 in video here: https://youtu.be/E0BfdWm5Wl4 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 
 

Fireside Chat 26: Dealing with pressure

In episode 26, the discussion is on how to deal with pressure. All three hosts have felt pressured at work at some point but, what are all the different types of pressure? What can we do about them? Are there any coping mechanisms? Given the same context, does everyone experience pressure in the same way? If not, why not? Another great 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 26 in video here: https://bit.ly/34m8210 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

Fireside Chat 25: Whose responsibility is it to motivate you?

The first episode of 2022 is on motivation. Whose responsibility is it to motivate you? How is your motivation is impacted by the environment and how can you impact the environment? What about extrinsic and intrinsic motivations? How our job history is perceived by future employers and what does it say about us as professionals? Those are some of the topics addressed in this episode of Codurance Fireside Chats.
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 25 in video here: https://bit.ly/3GMklCd 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/. 

Fireside Chat 24: To Estimate or Not to Estimate, That is the Question? (Part 2)

In this episode, Codurance co-founders Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar and Spain's Managing Director José E. Rodríguez Huerta went deeper into the discussion on estimation, addressing some of the comments we received on YouTube and Twitter.
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 24 in video here: https://bit.ly/3yVbyKZ 
For more information about Codurance, please visit our website: https://codurance.com/.