Codurance Fireside Chats

Fireside Chat 23: To Estimate, or Not to Estimate, That is the Question

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/. 
 

Fireside Chat 22: How Coupling and Cohesion can Impact Software and Organisation Design?

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/. 
 

Fireside Chat 21: Is it Enough to Have Shared Team Values?

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/. 
 

Fireside Chat 20: How Effective are we Really?

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/. 
 

Fireside Chat 19: From Expert Engineer to Terrible Manager

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/. 
 

Fireside Chat 18: Why do we Learn What we Learn?

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/. 

Fireside Chat 17: Do we Have to Lower the bar to Grow our Development Teams?

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/. 

Fireside Chat 16: How Does Architecture Impact the Organisation?

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/. 

Fireside Chat 15: Should Teams be Kept the Same or be Changed According to Business Needs?

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/. 

Fireside Chat 14: How do I Convince my Team to Adopt Technical Practices?

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/.