How we put together the Technology Radar

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Thoughtworks Technology Radar is a snapshot of technologies and practices that the company believes the industry should be interested in, based on the actual experiences of Thoughtworkers working with clients. With its first edition launched in January 2010, it is now a fixture of the Thoughtworks calendar, released twice a year in the spring and fall.

Although it has been around for more than a decade, we're well aware that people have lots of questions about it. One comes up more than others: how do you actually put it together? Giving a good, short answer is difficult — for those involved, it's a long process involving various stages of writing, debate and deliberation.

However, with the next edition of the Radar — volume 28 — just weeks away, we wanted to give the world an insight into how we put Technology Radar together. In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Marisa Hoenig, Perla Villareal and Camilla Crispim join host Neal Ford to discuss the work that goes into producing it and what the experience is like.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:12.3	My name is Neil Ford.
0:13.9	I am one of your regular hosts, and we normally have a co-host, but we don't today because we have three guests,
0:20.8	all with a very particular
0:22.8	unique perspective on our topic today.
0:26.1	Today we're going a little bit meta and behind the scenes on the ThoughtWorks Technology
0:31.8	Radar, which if you're listening to this podcast, you are no doubt familiar with.
0:36.2	If you're not, take a moment to go to thoughtworks.com
0:39.2	slash radar and you will see what it looks like. What we're going to be talking about today is how
0:44.6	that thing is created and talk to several of the people who have been very intensely involved
0:53.2	in the creation behind the scenes of this radar.
0:57.3	And I'll get them to introduce themselves and a little bit about themselves and where they
1:01.9	fit and within the era of the ThoughtWorks radar.
1:06.5	So we'll start with you, Marissa, because you're the current TA and going to be present for the next radar.
1:14.3	Yes, hi. My name is Marissa Honig. I am the current technical assistant for the CTO at ThoughtWorks, which means I'm also the product owner for the tech radar.
1:23.8	I started last year back in 2022, so I've done one radar, our volume 27, and I'll be doing the next, I don't know, three or four or so.
1:34.4	And it's a really cool thing to be a part of from, you know, coordinating all the writing to the translations and copy edits and seeing it finally go live.
1:44.1	So I'm really excited to
1:45.6	be here and to be in this role. Awesome. I'm Perla Filareal. I'm a lead consultant at ThoughtWorks.
1:53.1	I was in Marissa's role as the technical assistant of the CTO and the product owner of the
1:58.8	radar not too long ago for about two and a half years.
2:03.8	I joined in 2020 and stepped out late last year,
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