Hello and welcome to this edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcasts. I'm one of your regular co-hosts, Ashok's Rubinian.

Hi, I'm Neil Ford, one of your other regular co-hosts, and we are joined, or I should say

rejoined today by three of our colleagues.

I'll let them introduce themselves, starting with Anastasia.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Anastasia Buzzertzava.

I'm a developer with ThoughtWorks.

I've been with ThoughtWorks for around eight years and I've been on all sorts of

different engagements in this time. Hi, I'm Brandon Byers. I'm a technology director at ThoughtWorks

perking 13 years in. Hello, this is Alexander Serfamowski. I'm a lead consultant at ThoughtWorks

working as a developer. I've been at ThoughtWorks for 80 years, and I'm out of the Chicago office.

And you may recognize those voices because we have done a podcast with this group before,

talking about some of the challenges encountered when dealing in an agile software development mindset

with ERP-heavy sort of integration environments.

And our last episode, which is not required listening for here,

but we'll certainly give you some context,

it gave an overview of a lot of the challenges

you face in those kind of environments.

Today, we want to focus more on sort of the solutions to some of those challenges and

some ways to work around some of those problems.

Just to give our listeners some context of the problem space and what we're discussing,

Anastasia Alexander, I want to describe and give maybe a 30-second summary of the context

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