Peopleware Podcast: Recent Episodes

Ryan Marsh, Richard Mouser

Exploring the role of people in the development and use of software.

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My Team Won’t Do Example Mapping

Raw and unedited. Background noise in the beginning. Apologies for the audio, we’re figuring this out.

Peopleware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware

Example Mapping - https://cucumber.io/blog/bdd/example-mapping-introduction/

Ryan’s BDD conference talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rHsE-nA78

Programmers just want to be left alone to write code

The future of Enterprise software development

Org chart of Enterprise IT is tied to three tier software architecture

IfC: Infrastructure from Code

Shift to serverless will wreck enterprise IT

Retraining people to be programmers

Economic impact of AI and automation

Our experience on a well run software project

What happens people what they do at work

There's no substitute for mastery in software development

Complexity, military operations, and software development

Ryan’s experience in military leadership

Professionalism amongst programmers

Positive and negative bonding in teams

Anticipating the behaviors of people on your team

Shared sense of mission and purpose

Your first hit of dopamine from computing

Leaders who enforce standards

Communication on software projects

Evolution’s effects the brain

Cognitive bias

How humans grapple with complexity

Marsh’s first law of software

John Carmack and debugging

20% improvement in developer productivity in one day

Working memory psych test

Cheap laptops