Episode 001: "Working in Teams" with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick

04/23/20 • 29 min

Software development is a team sport and, for this inaugural episode of "Conversations in Software Development", we are very lucky to have a conversation on this subject with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian "Fitz" Fitzpatrick.
Besides being accomplished software engineers, Ben and Fitz have collaborated on multiple talks and books regarding the social challenges of software development, including the popular O'Reilly book Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration and most recently contributed several chapters to the book Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time.

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Extras 001.1: "Working in Teams... Remotely"

In this bonus content from Episode 001: "Working in Teams" with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben and Fitz tell us about the challenges of working remotely in a software team, especially in the context of a global crisis that is forcing nearly everyone to interact with their software teams remotely.

Conversations in Software Development - Episode 001: "Working in Teams" with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the very first episode of conversations in software development. My name is Berhan Sotomayer . I am a senior lecturer in the department of computer science at the university of Chicago, where among many other things I teach a class on software development. In that class, I often invite guest speakers to talk to our students about various aspects of software development. But this year to do the coronavirus virus crisis , u