João Marcos Podcasts

Marijn is the guest of this episode, and he brings his heuristic: Do NOT rewrite from scratch if it is in production (https://marijn.huizendveld.com/design-heuristics/do-not-rewrite-from-scratch-if-it-is-in-production). He gives examples of how to evolve software in production, reducing the risk of building the same thing in a new tech stack. We di…

It's rare that we get to mention our teams being in the spotlight, but you know we'll seize an opportunity, this week we update you on what's going on at Juventus (some more drama), and we update you on Zaniolo. Before you think its all about Serie A, we talk in depth about Brighton and the beautiful season they are having - and we talk about a tra…

A couple months back we made a little video about some new drama surrounding Juventus and their financial scandal their getting caught up in, fast forward to the present day, and Juventus is officially caught, and being penalized to lengths we didn't anticipate!By Ultras XI

These top teams keep dropping points, which leads us to believe that inconsistency makes everything a lot more interesting! Pep seems to be fumbling more points, so is he being exposed, or is this just a one off?By Ultras XI

Serie A had its twisted turns this weekend, BUT why don't let that distract you from the fact that Manchester United is HEAVILY linked with Wout Weghorst and Chelsea has a verbal agreement with Chelsea. But does any of this even make sense?By Ultras XI

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, we decided we would take our own little vacation for the last two weeks as well! We came back and decided to leave out the results, and talk about this beautiful thing called the transfer market - some done deals, and some potential deals.By Ultras XI

Our guest for this episode is Charity Majors. The pattern that serves as the stage for the episode is “Build Confidence” from the Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns (http://scg.unibe.ch/download/oorp/OORP.pdf). Charity describes the infamous “death spiral”, where folks that produce code lack confidence in their processes and practices to deploy…

Todays episode is for one man, and one man only(not really we talk about everything) the little boy from Rosario, the man the myth the legend - Lionel Messi. Messi finally gets his crown and wins the world cup, Mbappe scores a hattrick and it still wasn't enough for the to win back 2 back world cups. Besides all that, we go over who's transfer valu…

This World Cup has given us a lot of moments, upsets, disappointments, but most of all - its given a beautiful story to see legends of the game go at it once more.. BUT, there's been a couple of players/fans that are questioning the validity of this tournament and saying its been set up for Messi to take it home…

In todays episode, we recap the games that happened over the week, how the world cup is showing us who really wants it more and its beginning to heat up quite nicely. But we reflect on past world cups, and the different stories they brought to the world, the different heroes that came to the light, and even some of the villain's of past world cups.…

This episode is a bit spicy, we start off recapping all of the World Cup, talking about upsets, teams that are already out(Canada:( ). We go over who we can see going through to the next round, and making a run to the finals. We end off by talking about the turmoil surrounding Juventus, and we see if it gives Big Tony, and Al some PTSD from 2006 wh…

ITS WORLD CUP SEASON; We had the opening ceremony, we had a couple games, no upsets yet.. BUT we had a guest on, a first time guest - Mr. Antonio. Anto is apart of Canada's national team Ultras, so we had him on the show to talk everything Canadian soccer, what got him hooked, and his story is and why it means so much to him!…

Short King Fall is amongst us, so we have our good friend Rosati back on the show and he's back from his tour of England, we ask him how the experience was, and then we get into what's on every persons mind, the World Cup in Qatar - Underdogs, disappointments, and breakout stars, we cover everything in this episode. We just hope its enough knowledg…

Today we have a familiar guest on the show, we have Per back on the show. Stuff gets a bit heated, BUT, we have a very special guest that decides to just intervene and take over briefly.. sorry, we have 2 guests!By Ultras XI

Todays episode is VERY unique, we have some older gentlemen on the podcast, and these guys know some ball we don't even know about(we do, just not as much as they do), so do we even need to talk about the results that happened over the weekend?By Ultras XI

In todays episode, we go over this weekends results, some upsets - some games we kind of knew what would happen *cough cough, Roma*. We then talk about the controversy surrounding the World Cup right now and Joe gets a bit heated over it. To end it off, in light of Halloween being around the corner, we discuss players that have just disappeared; cr…

Its our anniversary! its our 25th episode and to celebrate we brought in a new guest, Julian Valeije - hes accompanied by our favourite troll Zack, who of course had to disagree with everything Valeij had to say. In this episode we talk about Arsenals dominance, City's vulnerability, and the El Clasico. Stuff also gets spicy again towards the end d…

This week we are joined with two fans who last week maybe had different thoughts on some of the calls in the Barca VS Inter match. Sanno and Florez join us and give us their input on the officiating from last week and how they think Xavi and Inzaghi are doing so far this season. We also gave Sanno and Florez a couple players to really think about i…

International break is all done and this weekends results didn't disappoint one bit! Were fortunate enough to be joined with a new guest, Mr. Daniele Leone. Lets just say, he was a natural and we may have a third person joining us. From upsets to big results. We go over it all and even provide our insight on how the table and everything is shaping …

International break, YUCK! who even enjoys it? players come back injured, stale football is usually played. So we dont talk too much about that - instead this week, Jos and Alex talk about how they would go about rebuilding a squad to lead them to glory, and of course we end off with some IN-N-OUT but only asking about our teams players.…

We're back this week(finally!) we got our good friends Rosati and Zack! This episode we talk about the drama going down at Chelsea, West Ham and we ask our guests some questions that keep them on their toes in our new segment, "This or That"By Ultras XI

On this week's episode we go through all the weekends biggest match ups and upsets. We go a bit more into depth with United and West Hams teams and how we think they will turn out by the end of the season with our special guests Jay and Zack.By Ultras XI

On today's podcast we go through the scores from over the weekend and give our thoughts on how teams are looking early on. Plus we are joined with a very special guest DBG to have a little discussion about some of Italy's most memorable moments.By Ultras XI

One this weeks episode we go through all the big match ups from over the weekend and the results on those games. We go a little in depth into how teams look early on and where they could already improve. We end things off with other segment of transfers that just make sense and focus in on Milan, Roma and Juventus after seeing them play on the firs…

Finally the start of the greatest season ever, the Football season and we couldn't be more excited to finally get back to watching the sport we all love. We also continue on with transfers that just make sense and get more in detail into United and Chelsea now that the season has started and we could see which gaps need to be filled before the mark…

On today's episode we get things rolling with a little TFC talk and some quick transfer talk before we jump into Transfers that just make sense. On this episode we go in depth on who Napoli, Juventus and Atletico already signed and where they will fit and then who we think makes the most sense to be their next signings.…

In this episode, we host Marco Heimeshoff. The interview starts with the heuristic “Optimise for future potential” from the DDD Heuristics repository (https://www.dddheuristics.com/design-heuristics/optimise-for-future-potential/). Marco will take us through the journey of optimising for future potential, where he explains the need for boundaries a…

On Today's episode we talk a little about TFC and their new Italian dominate direction they are going with the new signings of Criscito, Insigne and Bernardeschi. We also introduce our new segment called Transfers that just make sense starting with Barca, Milan and Manchester United.By Ultras XI

In this week's episode, we host Alayshia Knighten. She is challenged with the “Manage inertia” pattern from the Simon Wardley Cotrine repository (https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Doctrine_Patterns#Manage_inertia). She shares how she manages expectations to manage inertia with their customers. For that time is needed! During our conversa…

We are back now after a month off and we had a lot to talk about with the transfer market officially opening. On todays episode we are joined with special guest Julian Rosati to give our thoughts on how we think the transfer market is going to go and what rumours seem most likely to happen.By Ultras XI

This week in the podcast, we feature Danyel Fisher. He brought the heuristic “Users are correct but not accurate” from his repository. As a starter, Danyel explains that users have goals that aren’t able to express well, and we need to use different methods to discover the needs. We discuss what makes a high performing team, and in his opinion, one…

On today's episode we talk about the Conference league and Champions league finals and how big of a win it was for both veteran coaches. We also did it a little different a went with just underrated and not really talked about players who still had an amazing season.By Ultras XI

On today's episode we go a little more in depth with the Mbappé deal and how it could potentially hurt the future of football. We also choose our best starting XI of the season and talk about why we think they deserve a spot in the XI.By Ultras XI

On today's episode we go through what is currently going on with the Chelsea deal and why there has been so many delays and bumps in the road with this sale. We also give out thoughts on the Worst XI of this season and we basically go through who we think really took a step down this year or just didn't live up to the hype.…

Episode 58 is out. A long journey, and today with us, we have Phillip Carter. Phillip brings a heuristic from his repository: “Focusing on developer experience can make your products more powerful and your teams more empowered”. We deep dive into what is developer experience and how some companies don’t get it right. For example, developer experien…

On today's podcast we talk about the final race for the league trophy in England and Italy and how Liverpool may have just thrown away their hopes of a quadruple. We also talk about how Mourinho is doing this season in Rome and if the Spurs were a little premature with moving on from him.By Ultras XI

In this episode, we interview Heidi Helfand. She is challenged with the “Think aptitude and attitude” pattern from the Wardley Maps Doctrine repository (https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Doctrine_Patterns#Think_aptitude_and_attitude). During the episode, Heidi shares her experiences in a learning environment and how it can be set up to a…

On today's episode we talk about the sad passing of Mino Raiola and how the agents now in soccer have such a bigger role then most people know. We also cover the exciting title race in both the Prem and Serie A and what our thoughts are on the ending of the season.By Ultras XI

On this week's episode we discuss what our thoughts are on new rumours about Antonio Conte being linked with Psg. We also go through our teams (Juventus, Roma, Milan and Inter) and give our opinions on who we think our teams should sign this upcoming transfer window.By Ultras XI

On today's episode we are joined with Barcelona analyst Daniel Florez and we get his thoughts on this Barca team going forward and what he would like to see get done. We are also joined again with Chelsea analyst Julian Rosati and get his thoughts on the current table in the Prem and get his predictions on these upcoming fixtures.…

We host Jessica Kerr for this episode. She is challenged with the heuristic “Commit to the direction, be adaptive along the path” from the Simon Wardley Doctrine repository (https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Doctrine_Patterns#Commit_to_the_direction.2C_be_adaptive_along_the_path). She explains her own heuristic, “Having a quest” since of…

On today's episode we go through some of this weekends shocking and exciting results. We are also joined with Manchester United analyst Julien Lunardo to go a little more in depth with the current situation going on in Manchester right now and what he thinks they will be looking at changing and improving next season.…

On today's special episode AND double upload this week, we go through each of the groups for the World Cup and give our opinion's on how we think the groups will finish.By Ultras XI

In this week's episode we are joined with special guest Zack Demedeiros in going through some of this weekend's fixtures and some more controversy in Serie A. We also see what Zack's Dream starting XI is and give our thoughts about some questionable answer's.By Ultras XI

On this week's episode being Italian Canadian's we all experienced a mix of emotions last week with World Cup Qualifiers. We go through both matches and share our thoughts on what we think went wrong and what we could be looking forward too with Canada in the 2022 World Cup.By Ultras XI

In this episode, we host Abby Bangser. She is challenged with the heuristic “Timebox the unknown” from the Xebia Essentials repository (https://essentials.xebia.com/timebox/). She shared a recent real-life example of how timeboxing can narrow the problem space towards a solution which can be helpful from day one. During our conversation, she shared…

On today's episode we are joined with special guest's Marco Perricone and Alessandro Napoli who are friends but also rivals when it comes to football. We look more into Serie A and discuss how we feel the season will go and things get a little heated between the Inter and Milan fans. We also get Marco and Alessandro's thoughts on how they think qua…

In today's podcast we are joined with Chelsea fan Julian Rosati to take a deeper look into the current situation going on with Chelsea. We also talk about Barca and if bringing in Haaland is the right move or should they be looking to invest elsewhere.By Ultras XI

On today's podcast we go through some of the top matches from the weekend, Man United's struggles this season and is Ronaldo to blame for it. We also dive a little into the situation going on in London with Chelsea and give a little preview of what we have to come next week with our friend Chelsea analyst Julian Rosati. Follow us on Instagram, Twit…

On today's podcast we give everyone a preview of some of the topics we will be discussing on our podcast. We don't dive too deep in this episode but we will definitely get a lot more controversialBy Ultras XI