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

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams Adele Carpenter - Software Engineer at Trifork RESOURCES 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: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • Daniel H. Pink • Drive • Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code • #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #Agile #AgileDevelopment #AdeleCarpenter Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.