Coding lessons from the pandemic

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

From pair programming to the daily standup, the global pandemic challenged how we think about the practices and rituals that were a daily part of developers’ lives. Our podcasters explore what changes were enforced, how it impacted teams — and whether any of those changes will stick in the new normal.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.
0:07.8	I am one of your regular host, Neil Ford, and I'm joined by another of our regular host today, Scott Shaw.
0:15.1	Yeah, hi, I'm Scott Shaw. I'm the head of technology in Australia for ThoughtWorks, despite my American accent.
0:21.8	And we all happen to be together here in a room in New York City for the first time in a long time.
0:28.3	Which is an exciting opportunity for us as podcasters.
0:32.5	We frequently, when we gather as a Doppler group to put together the radar, lots of topics come up that
0:38.3	are just too nuanced for us to talk about on our radar.
0:41.3	And so we generate podcasts from them.
0:44.3	And that's exactly what we're opportunistically doing here today.
0:47.3	We finally met together for the first time in a couple of years and lots of interesting topics came up today.
0:53.3	And today is exactly, today's topic
0:56.8	is exactly about what we've been dealing with the past couple of years is how has coding
1:03.2	changed during the pandemic. So I am joined today by a couple of our colleagues. I'll let them
1:08.7	introduce themselves, starting with Cassie. Hi, everyone. I'm Cassie
1:12.4	Shum. I am a senior technologist here at ThoughtWorks based out of New York, so everybody's in my hometown
1:18.9	today. Hi, and I'm Puneet. I'm a lead consultant with ThoughtWorks based out of New York as well. I've been at ThoughtWorks for
1:29.5	around eight and a half years. Yeah. So the thing that sort of spawned to the idea for this
1:35.3	podcast were a couple of blips that came up on our radio. And one of them was called a meandering.
1:43.0	Was it meandering around instead of stand up? What was the phrasing that we didn't care for? It was like meandering, was it meandering around instead of stand-up?
1:45.2	What was the phrasing that we didn't care for?
1:47.1	It was like meandering Team Sinks instead of the typical stand-ups.
1:51.6	Yeah, I think it came from a honeycomb, a blog on the Honeycomb website that said stand-ups
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