A Teacher, an Economist & a Developer Walk Into a Bar... • Adele Carpenter • GOTO 2023

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Adele Carpenter - Software Engineer at Trifork

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ABSTRACT
Have you ever wondered what a teacher, economist or actor could teach you about software development?

As software developers, we often lean on heuristics and truths that we collect throughout our career. For example: start small and scale up later, iterate and ship often, failure is learning, good enough is good enough. These are actually pretty powerful insights that can be applied in other areas and not just in software development.

So what about these other areas, like teaching, economics and acting? What do people in these industries and professions just “know”? And can we apply it to software development? This talk takes a lighthearted look at several different professions and pulls these insights together to offer you a fresh perspective on your work. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
03:27 Story
15:46 Sunk cost fallacy
20:24 Consistency over perfection
31:29 Relationships first
37:47 What's happening here?
43:34 Takeaways
48:25 Outro

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotoams.nl/2023/sessions/2459

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/enabling-microservice-success/9781098130787
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Daniel H. Pink • Drive • https://amzn.to/45ynscO
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code • https://amzn.to/3s2zjyg

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