Podcast

To wrap up the first season of the podcast, we're reviewing some big themes and then looking toward the future of software development.

While the modern tech office has evolved a long way from its predecessors in 1720s London, there's a surprising amount of continuity. Work from home in tech, meanwhile, traces back to two surprising origins in 1970s California.

Agile started as a "grassroots labor movement" for "organizational anarchists." By 2018, a third of its founders had disavowed their creation. What happened?

The idea that everything is a test, and software is driven by data, is a very recent notion. Indeed, rigorous experimentation is a pretty new idea in every context. Let's see how it became ubiquitous in modern software development.

Out of the ashes of the dot-com crash, a slowly revitalizing software industry extended Agile and Lean methodologies from how to make software to how to make companies, spawning to the creation of many of today's biggest tech giants.

In the aftermath of the dot-com bubble, the leaders of Scrum, XP, and other IID methodologies came together to create the Agile Manifesto, triggering practical and cultural changes across the software industry,

Iterative & Incremental Development went through critical evolutions in the 1980's and 90's, spawning Scrum and Extreme Programming, and laying the ground for Agile.

Waterfall simultaneously thrived and struggled as the early commercial software industry wrestled with professionalization -- and then got locked in by government standards in the 1980's.

Methodology may determine how we build software, but the way companies manage their workers and measure their progress are essential in shaping what we build in the first place.

Iterative & Incremental Development got its start in classic early 20th century manufacturing and evolved through pioneering NASA projects into an important precursor of how we work today.