Loving Legacy
Richard Bown
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S2E1 HUMAN SOFTWARE: How We Treat Each Other At Work
In this special episode I say hello after two years in silence, and I share what has been going on in the meantime.I wrote a book. It's a novel. It's about how we treat each other at work, it's about…
S1E33 That One Script You Wrote is Now a Platform
What is a platform? How does one appear and what do you do with it when you have one?Exploring the line between planned organisational change and operational overhead. Overview of the state of…
S1E32 The QUEST for Better Software: Happier Teams and Happier Customers
To kick off a new season, I start with a deep dive into the QUEST framework-which-isn't-a-framework. QUEST is a mnemonic that helps you remember essential software delivery tasks. This previews my…
S1E31 Avoiding Legacy? DDD, Collaborative Architecture and Product Thinking with Nico Krijnen
Do you hate legacy or do you love it? Do you accept it or do you want to stamp it out? This time I talk to Nico Krijnen (Lumunis) about the opportunities we have in our legacy codebases to understand…
S1E30 The Business of Legacy - Making Software Change Successful
We are bombarded with the need for business change - which means systems change. At the same time, we need to be faster, safer and more secure than ever. How can you learn to make software delivery…
S1E29 Interview with Jonathan Hall - Talking DevOps, Go and Continuous Delivery in Reverse
I talk to Jonathan Hall about all things DevOps from small companies to large companies and where the customer fits in the often technical story of our code development and deployment.How do you…
S1E28 Emergent Architectures and Beating the Monolith
What does it mean to support, extend or even replace a monolith and should we even try? This time I explore the landscape as it is now - when we feel under pressure to "do microservices" yet we have…
S1E27 Dani Grant from Jam talking about Building Better Bug Reporting
I talk to Dani Grant, the CEO and co-founder of Jam about their browser-based bug reporting solution and how it improves the bug-fixing experience for all those involved in reporting, triage and…
S1E26 Observability Engineering and Customer Needs with Stephen Townsend
Not all engineers are equally invested in understanding what our software is actually doing - should they be and why? Is building a successful software product more than just a technical exercise in…
S1E25 Continuous Delivery, Platforms as Product and Value Stream Mapping
I talk to Jacob Lafors about his company, Verifa, as well as their approach to engagements around platform engineering, CI/CD and how he provides a value stream mapping service to clients. We talk…
S1E24 QUEST: Do We Still Need Agile in 2023?
It's 2023 and just like any year, your timeline is awash with good intentions and lists of things that you can do this year. You might even be writing a list - but what is the good of a list if you…
S1E23 How Does Legacy and Tech Debt appear?
Legacy and tech debt are a fact of life in all software. So how can we identify the major causes and try to limit them in our development process?This time I discuss the major causes of tech debt and…
S1E22 The Power of Test Driven Development (TDD)
Before I read the book by Kent Beck I was just thinking - pesky tests what are they good for apart from getting in the way? What’s so good about Test Driven Development?But writing tests isn’t what…
S1E21 Legacy Code: Sunk Cost or Opportunity?
Why do we love to build new code when we have plenty of good software that already works? Is the platform language or framework legacy? Is it because we want to learn a new skill? Is it because we…
S1E20 Does Continuous Delivery Have an Image Problem?
Sparked by a short Twitter exchange, this time I investigate why a lot of CD implementations (that I've come across) often appear to be half-complete or just fail to achieve CD. What are the root…
S1E19 Is Legacy Scary? Or Is Building A New Software Product Scarier?
What is legacy? What does it have to do with building new software? Why does it annoy us as software developers? Why does it worry us as business owners or product managers? Why do we ignore it as…
S1E18 A Manifesto for Better Software Delivery
An increasing number of businesses are now actually (at least partially) also software businesses. Energy companies, financial giants, insurers, and retailers – all of them have significant in-house…
S1E17 Making Software More Sustainable with Tom Kennes
I talk to Tom Kennes, sustainable cloud consultant and ambassador for the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA). We discuss how IT and software delivery can be more sustainable and what…
S1E16 Putting the Product back in the MVP
When was the last time you did a Minimal Viable Product that was actually minimal? How often do we get it right and truly focus on delivering something of value to the customer?On this week's…
S1E15 Between Product and Engineering
In this episode we explore the way that technology, tools and architecture can affect the product that you are building. As engineers do we need to think more about product side? As product marketers…
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Loving Legacy has published 34 episodes since January 2022, covering topics in Business, Management.
Loving Legacy is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 14m.
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