Martin Fowler: my ThoughtWorks journey
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In the latest episode, our regular co-hosts Rebecca Parsons and Neal Ford are joined by colleague and software luminary, Martin Fowler, to talk about his journey with ThoughtWorks.
Together they explore Martin’s life before ThoughtWorks, how he came to join and what it is that’s persuaded him to stay for more than 20 years. They also delve into how Martin’s bliki emerged as an essential guide to all things software and about his passion for enabling everyone to take more control of their computers — and how to do so while maintaining things like code quality and maintainability.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. My name is Rebecca Parsons and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. Today we thought we'd do something a little different. And we have with us as a guest, Martin Fowler, our chief scientist, and we want to talk to him a little bit about |
| 0:21.2 | his experience, how and why he came to ThoughtWorks, what kinds of things that he does, and how he |
| 0:30.3 | sees technology now. I'm joined by my co-host, Neil. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | It'll be easy to distinguish our voices because Martin will speak next and you'll be able to tell his voice from mine quite easily. |
| 0:44.9 | Well, you mean because you have this nice Americans of an accent. |
| 0:49.3 | Exactly. |
| 0:49.9 | I don't think anyone will have a trouble telling us apart. |
| 0:52.2 | So welcome to the podcast, Martin. |
| 0:54.3 | One of the things that we discovered is people are interested in career paths, particularly |
| 0:59.7 | for people who have a non-traditional career path. |
| 1:02.4 | I think yours may be the most non-traditional of them all. |
| 1:05.9 | So we thought we would chat with you about that today. |
| 1:09.5 | Okay. |
| 1:10.0 | Yes. |
| 1:10.2 | I don't think of myself as having had a career path. So at the thought works, but oh well, we'll explore it and see where it goes. Was it a meandering stream? Because, I mean, many people talk about a career path. They talk about sort of a progression through roles and changes. And actually, my role |
| 1:27.9 | has been pretty much the same the whole time I've been at full works. I mean, there hasn't really |
| 1:31.8 | been much alteration. And I'm actually quite happy with that because a lot of people want a career |
| 1:37.2 | path and change and growth. And I've kind of found a nice niche and I'm wallowing it. So how did you |
| 1:42.3 | run across ThoughtWorks? How did that joining happen? |
| 1:46.6 | Well, I was for quite a long time an independent consultant based in the United States, |
| 1:52.8 | and I would sort of travel around to various companies giving my consulting wisdom or whatever. |
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