Monday, December 22, 2025

Good talks/podcasts (Dec II)

These are the best podcasts/talks I've seen/listened to recently:
  • You ONLY Get Code LIKE THIS With TDD πŸ”— talk notes (Dave Farley) [Continuous Delivery, Software Design, tdd] [Duration: 00:16] This talk explores Software Design as the core of development, illustrating how test-driven development (TDD) serves as a critical design tool for achieving modularity, cohesion, and continuous structural improvement.
  • Building effective engineering teams; lessons from 10 years at Google | Addy Osmani πŸ”— talk notes (Addy Osmani) [Agile, Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture] [Duration: 00:31] An exploration of how Engineering Culture integrates Technical Leadership, Management, and Developer Productivity to optimize Teams through Agile and DevOps practices.
  • Rethinking growing engineers in the age of AI | Meri Williams | LDX3 London 2025 πŸ”— talk notes (Meri Williams) [AI, Engineering Career, Engineering Culture, Technical leadership] [Duration: 00:23] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Meri Williams explores the urgent need to rethink engineering growth in the age of AI, advocating for a shift from manual coding tasks toward early tech leadership, systems thinking, and a "healthy paranoia" that allows leaders to "surf" the waves of technological change rather than be overwhelmed by them.
  • The Biggest Problem With UI πŸ”— talk notes (Dave Farley) [Continuous Delivery, Software Design, team topologies] [Duration: 00:15] This talk explains why UI/UX design should be treated as an integral software design choice rather than a static specification, advocating for development teams to own the UI to ensure the system accurately reflects the user's mental model.
  • Shaped by demand: The power of fluid teams | Daniel Terhorst-North | LDX3 London 2025 πŸ”— talk notes (Dan North) [Agile, Product Discovery, Teams] [Duration: 00:23] Daniel Terhorst-North presents demand-led planning as a framework for building fluid, autonomous teams that self-organize quarterly to balance delivery, discovery, and Kaizen based on real-time organizational demand.
  • Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design • Kent Beck • GOTO 2024 πŸ”— talk notes (Kent Beck) [Agile, Engineering Culture, Software Design, XP] [Duration: 00:57] Kent Beck explores software design as a socio-technical exercise in human relationships and economic optionality, offering a framework to balance feature delivery with a sustainable engineering culture rooted in Agile-XP principles
  • Rafa Gomez - Attacking tech Debt: A Marathon, Not a Sprint - SCBCN 25 πŸ”— talk notes (Rafa GΓ³mez) [Architecture, Product, Technical leadership] [Duration: 00:41] Learn how the "Marathon" approach enables engineers to tackle technical debt by adopting a product mindset that aligns long-term technical health with business value and consistent product delivery.
  • An Ultimate Guide To BDD πŸ”— talk notes (Dave Farley) [Continuous Delivery, Software Design, tdd] [Duration: 00:18] Dave Farley explains how Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) utilizes executable specifications to improve software design and collaboration, facilitating excellence in Continuous Delivery through a user-centric, outside-in approach.
  • Unit Testing Is The BARE MINIMUM πŸ”— talk notes (Dave Farley) [Continuous Delivery, Software Design, tdd] [Duration: 00:20] Learn how Test-Driven Development (TDD) serves as a critical act of design to achieve high-quality software by specifying behavior over implementation and enhancing modularity
Reminder: All of these talks are interesting, even just listening to them.

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