Simon Brown – Architecture, Design and C4 Model

October 3, 2020

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

Software, Art, Augmented Intelligence and Functional Programming with Alex Bolboaca & David Schmudde

September 30, 2020

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

Matteo Cavucci – Redesigning Design

September 19, 2020

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

Bo Tiderman – How to succeed with product launches

September 12, 2020

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 – Jack of all trades master of none

September 5, 2020

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

Conclusions – Focus on large scale vs small scale

July 25, 2020

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

Conclusions – Class oriented vs Object Oriented programming

July 18, 2020

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

Applying design principles for Microservices

July 10, 2020

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

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock & Alex Bolboaca – Design Challenges: OOP, Design Patterns, Heuristics

July 3, 2020

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

Team Agreements with Alex

June 12, 2020

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

Date and Time are more difficult than you think

April 25, 2020

We’ve noticed when helping programmers with unit testing, and from public bugs, that many developers don’t know how complex is Date and Time. In this video, we’re going through a few things about DateTime that are important for writing correct code and for avoiding bugs. From time zones, and the international date line, to relativistic... Read more