Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? • Hillel Wayne • GOTO 2023
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo
Hillel Wayne - Chief Everything Office at Windy Coast Consulting @hillelwayne2899
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ABSTRACT
What makes software engineering different from “traditional” engineering? To find out, I interviewed 17 “crossovers”: people who have worked professionally as both a software and a traditional engineer. In aggregate, we learn three things: we are in fact engineers, we’re not actually that different as a field, and there’s a lot we can both teach and learn. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:40 Is software development a branch of engineering?
03:39 Let’s talk to engineers
04:08 3 questions
05:06 First Q: Are we really engineers?
15:29 Second Q: How similar are we to traditional engineering?
30:36 Third Q: What can we learn from each other?
32:33 What can we teach?
34:17 Version control
35:32 Conclusion
36:46 Outro
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Hillel Wayne • Practical TLA •
Pete McBreen • Software Craftsmanship •
Paul Bonenberger • The First Snap-Fit Handbook •
Sébastien Goasguen • Docker Cookbook •
Alex Cowan • Hypothesis-Driven Development •
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know •
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies •
Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow •
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering •
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