My talk entitled The QUEST for Better Software from the We Are Developers World Congress in Berlin, July 2023.
You can download the slides here.
Here is my original blog post which inspired this talk.
More Information
Some of the links I referred to in the talk.
The Agile Manifesto
The Five Ideals from the Unicorn Project
https://itrevolution.com/articles/five-ideals-of-devops/
And my article on this topic.
John Romero’s 10 Programming Principles
It’s worth watching John Romero’s whole talk for lots of insights into how programmers think and work together from an undoubted master of his craft. Also here you can find my blog article about this talk.
In short form: https://github.com/anttiviljami/romero-programming-principles
Kent Beck’s Presentation about Refactoring and Cost of Upfront Design
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/refactoring-cleaning-code/
It’s a great talk and worth watching. Because it exposes the social
Barbara Liskov’s Substitution Principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle
Conway’s Law
The wiki entry about Conway’s Law and a short article thanking Mr Conway.
Team Topologies
If you care about how software is built in the wider organization – it’s worth reading Team Topologies.
You can also now read Martin Fowler’s opinion about Team Topologies.