Lessons from a remote Tech Radar
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic meant that for the first time in 10 years, the next volume of ThoughtWorks Technology Radar had to be created via a virtual meeting, instead of face-to-face. Our podcast team share their experiences of working on this complex and highly interactive project. They discuss how the tech held up, what was missing and what worked well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Neil Ford, one of your regular hosts, but you can't see me. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm doing air quotes around host because we don't really have hosts and guests for this episode. |
| 0:19.6 | Rather, what we have are four regular members of Doppler, who's the group who puts |
| 0:25.1 | together the technology radar, and we're here to talk about what it was like to put |
| 0:29.9 | together the technology radar during the midst of a global pandemic. |
| 0:34.4 | So I'm one of your regular hosts, Neil Ford, and I'll let the other folks |
| 0:39.2 | introduce themselves. Jebac, you can start. Sure. Hi, everyone. I'm Jeanneck. I'm also a member of |
| 0:47.4 | Doppler putting the radar together, as well as being a host in this podcast. And I joined |
| 0:53.0 | the techar sessions, |
| 0:54.8 | as well as joining this session from San Francisco. |
| 1:00.6 | And I'm Mike Mason, also one of the regular hosts |
| 1:03.7 | of the podcast. |
| 1:04.4 | You might remember me from previous podcasts, |
| 1:06.8 | such as the one in which James Lewis absolutely blows my mind talking about complexities theory |
| 1:12.3 | and microservices. |
| 1:14.9 | Happy to be on the podcast. |
| 1:17.8 | Hi, I'm Evan Botcher. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm the head of engineering for ThoughtWorks in Australia. |
| 1:24.1 | And, yeah, I've been part of the Doppler group since about 2010. |
| 1:28.4 | So it's been an interesting experience. |
| 1:31.3 | Yes, so one of the things that we always swore was impossible, absolutely irrevocably impossible, |
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