Good talks/podcasts (Apr 2023 I)

 

These are the best podcasts/talks I've seen/listened to recently:

• Kent Beck On The FIRST Testing Frameworks, TDD, Waterfall & MORE | The Engineering Room Ep. 16 (Kent Beck, Dave Farley) [Agile, Inspirational, XP] [Duration: 1:07:00] In this episode of the Engineering Room, Dave Farley and Kent Beck have a wide-ranging discussion about the return of waterfall development in software, TDD, Software Design and lots of other things along the way.
• Master Class with Marty Cagan (Marty Cagan) [Inspirational, Product, Product Discovery, Product Leadership, Product Team, leadership] [Duration: 1:21:00] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) A great presentation on skilled product teams and leading product organizations. The questions at the end are also very interesting.
• High WIP, multi-tasking, etc. (John Cutler) [Lean, WIP] [Duration: 8:37:00] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Great explanation about the harmful impact of having high work in progress.
• Don't Mock 3rd Party Code (Dave Farley) [Software Design, Technical Practices, testing] [Duration: 19:55:00] In this episode Dave explains the dangers of mocking third party code, whose evolution and change we have no control over.
• The Future of Platform Engineering (Kaspar von Grünberg, Ben Ford, Nigel Kersten, Fatih Degirmenci, Ronan Keenan) [Devops, Platform, Platform as a product, Platform engineering] [Duration: 0:37:00] Interesting discussion about Platform Engineering.
• Software Craftsmanship al descubierto con Mashooq Badar (Mashooq Badar) [Craftmanship, Inspirational, XP] [Duration: 0:31:00] Interesting interview with Mashooq Badar, one of the founders of the craftmanship software movement in London.

Reminder, All these talks are interesting even just listening to them.

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