Is software engineering so different from engineering? What is CI and CD, and why should you use them even when you can't deploy to production very often? And how do you feel working in IT when you don't have a formal IT education? Thierry de Pauw in conversation with Alex Bolboaca discuss all these ideas,... Read more
What are the challenges that organizations face when switching to DevOps? Where should you start if you want to learn infrastructure automation? And how to deal with common problems like storing secrets, switching to cloud or using externally developed containers? We discussed at length with Andrey Adamovich about his experiences learning infrastructure automation and helping... Read more
Agility Summit gathers visionary business leaders, managers, and change-makers looking for new ways to serve customers and shape organizations in a digital world. For those shaping their organizations, the event provides knowledge and lessons learned from digital transformations, agile transformations to innovation, and reinventions to achieve business agility. Other topics of interest are: how to... Read more
Are words important in programming? Is the programming language just a detail or an important architectural decision? Are the programming paradigms exclusive or do they overlap? And do we actually use the paradigms we say we use? We discussed at length with Kevlin Henney all these questions and more. Kevlin Henney is one of the... Read more
Are words important in programming? Is the programming language just a detail or an important architectural decision? Are the programming paradigms exclusive or do they overlap? And do we actually use the paradigms we say we use? We discussed at length with Kevlin Henney all these questions and more. Kevlin Henney is one of the... Read more
How do you communicate software architecture? Do developers understand the diagrams? And if you start as an architect, where do you start? Watch this conversation with Simon Brown, author of "Software Architecture For Developers" https://leanpub.com/b/software-architecture, creator of the C4 architectural model https://c4model.com/, speaker and consultant. We discuss the challenges of switching from developer to architect,... Read more
We had the chance to discuss with David Schmüdde, artist and programmer, passionate about functional programming, and tuned to the humanistic aspects of software development and computers' role in society. We spent one hour discussing many interesting topics: functional programming, the humanistic aspects of programming, creating art with code, augmented intelligence and the future of... Read more
Product Leaders Summit is an event for everyone passionate about building successful products. You can find out more at https://productleaders.eu/. The event has been proudly designed by Mozaic Works. Mozaic Works is providing high quality, customized learning experiences and change programs to achieve business agility, successful products, technical excellence, agile management and leadership. Find out... Read more
Product Leaders Summit is an event for everyone passionate about building successful products. You can find out more at https://productleaders.eu/. The event has been proudly designed by Mozaic Works. Mozaic Works is providing high quality, customized learning experiences and change programs to achieve business agility, successful products, technical excellence, agile management and leadership. Find out... Read more
Onwah Tsang shared his insights on being a Jack of all trades, master of none Onwah stated that in an era dominated by an online-first approach, complex algorithms and massive datasets, having some technical skills might open up new opportunities. In his talk, he explores how specialists such as product management, designers and journalists can... Read more
Bettina shares why and how Babbel pivoted from launching a new product to delivering value through its current product as well as lessons learned along the way. She sets out to answer questions such as: – As a product manager, how do you decide what problems are the most important to solve from this seemingly... Read more
In his Keynote session at the first edition of Product Leaders Summit, Greg covers issues such as: – Culture clash: How to use the power of intrapreneurship in a big company. – Using an external innovation ecosystem (buy, build, borrow) – Sand-box venture – how to grow new opportunities by outsourcing new ventures All of... Read more
After 6 months of interesting conversations with various people from software development, Alex discusses another interesting conclusion: that the split between large scale and small scale has been around for a long time, and continues to this day. On one hand, design patterns, UML and DDD, and on the other XP and software craft –... Read more
After 6 months of conversations with interesting people from software development, Alex is talking about some of the things he learned about OOP. It all started from practical needs and a vision, moved through a search phase for best structures, but turned what Alex calls "Class oriented programming" – at least for a while. Watch... Read more
This is a talk about how to apply design principles to microservices, and how in fact microservices look very similar with object oriented programming as initially envisioned by Alan Kay. The talk was given by Alex Bolboaca at the invitation of the AgileWorks Romania community. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author, trainer and coach... Read more
Object Oriented Programming is a fundamental part of our everyday work as programmers. But how was OOP in the beginning? And how do the pioneers of OOP think when designing software with objects? Watch this conversation with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, author of "Object Design – Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations", inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design (the first *DD),... Read more
This video contains a talk about Deliberate Practice that Alex did at the 8th edition, and the 2nd digital edition, of I T.A.K.E. Unconference. A big problem today for many people doing knowledge work is that they need to learn a lot of things but there's not enough time. Alex has dealt with this problem... Read more
Following the interest on twitter in the team agreements from Mozaic Works shared by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock at a few conferences, Alex presents the reasoning behind team agreements, the background, and a few improvement ideas. This video is part of the Agile Challenges series. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author, trainer and coach at Mozaic... Read more
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This conversation is part of the Agile Challenges series. A wonderful discussion about Coderetreat, a format of deliberate practice workshop co-created by Corey Haines, and the Global Day of Coderetreat that started in 2011. Jim Hurne and Adrian Bolboaca remember how the Global Day of Coderetreat started and how they worked on this project for... Read more