IT delivery in unusual circumstances
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to delivering IT in unusual circumstances, ThoughtWorks veteran Patrick Sarnacke has seen it all: from working through coup attempts to dealing with flooded server rooms or just pair programming with a reluctant partner. Mike Mason catches up with Pat to talk through his 20+ year journey with ThoughtWorks and the highlights of his career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to the podcast. My name is Mike Mason. I'm one of your regular hosts. |
| 0:13.8 | And I'm joined this week by Pat Sarnakey, who is a delivery principal at ThoughtWorks. Thanks for joining us, Pat. |
| 0:22.2 | Thanks, Mike. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:24.1 | And today we're going to talk a little bit about Pat's ThoughtWorks journey. |
| 0:29.1 | So the two of us have just, for anyone who's interested, |
| 0:32.8 | the two of us have just spent half an hour running around trying to find a microphone that works, |
| 0:36.5 | and eventually |
| 0:37.5 | turning off all the other electronic devices in the room, including my Bluetooth headphones, |
| 0:42.4 | which were finally the cause of the problem. So two of us as a couple of reasonably technical |
| 0:48.2 | guys are feeling frustrated by tech right now. You know, I'm not an RF engineer, so I don't feel too bad about it. |
| 0:56.2 | We kept spotting more things in the room that could be emitting RF noise and have finally |
| 1:02.0 | fixed all of that. So Pat and I have known each other for a long time now. I've been at |
| 1:09.1 | Thoughtworks for 16 years. How long have you been here? |
| 1:11.6 | Over 22. Over 22, right. So I'm a ThoughtWorks baby compared to Pat. You are, you are, yeah. |
| 1:19.2 | Where did we first meet in the UK? No, I think it was, I think you came in here for an away day. |
| 1:25.3 | I think we met one of those away days. |
| 1:28.8 | So an away day is a footwork's annual tradition of getting together and fixing all of the things that are wrong with the world. |
| 1:37.0 | And it's kind of like a mini internal conference. And we do a lot of that kind of thing. It's kind of important to our culture. So I'm not surprised that I met you at one of those. |
| 1:47.0 | So, Pat, you're a delivery principle at ThoughtWorks, |
| 1:51.0 | which is what you do this week, but can you tell us a little bit about what you're going to do next week? |
| 1:57.0 | Sure, so just recently ThoughtWorks has asked me to step in and help out with our |
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