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