How we build the Tech Radar
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The ThoughtWorks Technology Radar is the must-read report for anyone interested in state-of-the-art software development. In this episode, we take a behind-the-scenes look at how the Radar is built: how technologies get onto the Radar; the in-depth discussions over where they’re placed; and why some things miss out. Regular co-hosts Dr Rebecca Parsons and Neal Ford are joined by Marco Valtas, lead consultant at ThoughtWorks Brazil and Camilla Crispim, the outgoing Technical Assistant to OCTO.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the ThoughtWorks podcast. My name is Rebecca Parsons. I'm one of your |
| 0:12.7 | co-hosts and I'm joined by Neil Ford, one of your other regular co-hosts. So you've seen the |
| 0:18.8 | completed radar, but you may not have thought much about |
| 0:22.3 | how the thing fits together. There's actually a tremendous amount of logistical work behind the |
| 0:27.6 | scenes, and one of the key roles that makes that happen is Rebecca's technical assistant. And the one |
| 0:34.9 | who's just wrapping up her two-year tender is Camilla Crispin, |
| 0:38.7 | and she's here today to talk about how we put the radar together. Hello, everyone. And we also |
| 0:44.9 | have one of the regular tab members, who's one of the people, one of the cats that Camilla has to |
| 0:50.2 | heard to get things done this morning. Yeah, I'm Marco. I represent Brazil on the group. |
| 0:56.0 | Let's go back to the very beginning. |
| 0:57.7 | So how does this thing to come together? |
| 0:59.5 | So a lot of people know that all of us gather from around the globe into a meeting space. |
| 1:04.3 | So how does this come together? |
| 1:06.0 | Well, I think the first step is actually getting people from the group to collect the blips and they have |
| 1:11.8 | very passionate conversations with all the thought workers that they work with or is in |
| 1:17.3 | their region. |
| 1:18.1 | They collect the blips. |
| 1:19.5 | They do some sort of self-censoring to see what they're going to bring to the room, what |
| 1:24.6 | they're not going to bring. |
| 1:26.1 | Sometimes they just want to see if others |
| 1:28.3 | are doing the same stuff that they are doing, but that's the starting point. And then when we get here, |
| 1:33.3 | we put all the post-its on the wall, and then it's time to get started actually discussing |
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