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Live Q&A - Beyond Coding: Toward Software Development Expertise
Marian Petre
Live Q&A with Marian Petre for the talk titled Beyond Coding: Toward Software Development Expertise
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BobF
Score: 0 | 7 hours ago | no reply

Following my perhaps rather ambiguous question in the chat, I'll re-phase and expand upon it ... just a bit and hopefully, with more clarity. From my comprehension (I could be wrong!) true innovation follows on from the creative process. Over recent decades, certainly with the wide-spread adoption of IT Tools across the board (amongst other things), the pace of innovation has certainly quickened and widened. The knock-on effect of this is ever-increasing competition (globally, with constant pressures on time-to-market et al), ever-increasing costs of development (certainly staff renumeration) and labour-churn (including staff poaching) - a few (of many) examples that I had termed 'dynamics in play'. Basically, as teams are composed of individuals (who many can certainly think for themselves, including of themselves !!), what are the impacts on the creative process? I'm tending to think of the negatives here, sorry, rather than the positives (if there are indeed any!) and, in this instance, poor decision making, burn-out, redundancy etc come to mind! A follow-on question would be "How can these 'all-around-us' pressures be minimalised for the benefit of greater creativity / greater productivity" - read the book?

Andrew.C
Score: 0 | 1 day ago | no reply

Thank you for a very interesting talk.

EleciaWhite
Score: 1 | 4 days ago | 1 reply

This is a good high level talk about techniques engineers can use to get unstuck in design and debugging. I want a poster of the different ideas Marian talks about for when I need a different methodology to encourage creativity in my team.

MarianPetreSpeaker
Score: 0 | 4 days ago | no reply

Elecia, Thanks for this. I'll see about a poster ... In the meantime, some teams use the book ('Software Design Decoded') as a prompt; for example, they pick a page a random, or post a page per day.

09:44:49 From Antonio to Everyone:
	Do you think that the current migration to remote jobs and home office is killing the "coffee machine" chatting culture?
	
	Some years ago we used to gather around the coffee machine and have a little chat about current topics that resulted in a creativity booster. Sadly, wWe do not do that so often now. Are we missing opportunities to engage in creativity movements?
09:51:39 From Antonio to Everyone:
	Respondiendo a "Do you think that ..."
	
	Thanks Marian!
09:51:39 From BobF to Everyone:
	With the pace of innovation that is happening, what are the consequences of the 'dynamics in play' i.e. competition/costs/labour churn et al within teams?
09:53:36 From Keith J to Everyone:
	Amazing insights Marian.  Thank you very much!
09:53:59 From BobF to Everyone:
	Near enough ... thanks!
09:55:28 From Lyden Smith to Everyone:
	Thank you Marian!
09:55:43 From Stephane to Everyone:
	Thank you Marian!

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