Starting out with sensible default practices

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The idea of best practices is becoming an anachronism — given today’s complex technology landscape, the notion that there can be a single best way of doing anything seems fanciful. Our crew explore the thinking behind sensible defaults: that there may be some practices which act as de facto starting points on any given project because they’re effective — practices such as pair programming, TDD or continuous integration. But context is vital and there may be circumstances which makes the default choice invalid — or at least suboptimal.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:08.0	I'm one of your hosts, Mike Mason, and I'm joined today by Neil Ford, my co-host, as well as
0:15.0	Keith Morris and Birkina Berkler.
0:18.0	And we're going to be discussing sensible defaults today.
0:21.6	So before we do that, let's talk to our guests and just get a little bit of info about them.
0:28.6	Keith, would you like to start what you do for ThoughtWorks briefly?
0:33.6	Sure. So Keith Moore is based out of London.
0:38.3	And one of the hatch that I wear is the global lead for the infrastructure practice,
0:44.4	so infrastructure engineering and that kind of thing.
0:50.0	And Begita?
0:51.0	Yeah, I'm Begita Bockela.
0:52.8	I'm a technical principal out of the ThoughtWorks, Berlin, Germany office.
0:58.2	And one of the also many hats that I wear is kind of like what Keefe is for our infrastructure
1:03.9	practice or infrastructure community globally.
1:06.4	I am the lead for a global software development community of practice.
1:11.3	Excellent.
1:12.2	So, Neil, what are we talking about today?
1:15.0	So this is a phrase that has come into usage around ThoughtWorks,
1:19.3	this idea of sensible defaults for projects.
1:23.8	And the first thing we wanted to distinguish is it from the generally disliked
1:31.8	industry term of a best practice in software development, which used to be a thing you aspired
1:37.2	to and then quickly became an anti-pattern you try to avoid because the implication of a best
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