Adam Tornhill on Good Engineering Culture, Technical Debt and Ways to Reduce Inter-Team Conflict

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Adam Tornhill of Empear on combining psychology and software engineering, technical debt. Why listen to this podcast: - The problems in software engineering are not technical they are almost always people related - A lot of technical debt is not actually technical in nature – it is due to organisational and social factors - Research that shows that the number of developers who work on a block of code is a predictor of the number of quality issues that code will have - There is a cuttoff point above which adding more people to work on a codebase becomes a negative return is fairly low - Safety to be able to admit to not knowing, collaboration and constant learning are key to a healthy engineering culture - Complex areas of a codebase which change frequently are the best targets for technical debt reduction - hotspotsInter-team conflict is inevitable unless you have an engineering culture where there is a clear and compelling common goal More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2qkQtsj You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Want to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2qkQtsj