1.10: Where We Work

08/17/23 • 31 min

In the penultimate episode of season 1, we're finally addressing the silent partner in all our work: the place we do it.
We'll track how we got from the first large office buildings in early modern London, through the rigorously optimized work spaces of the early 20th century, on to the cubicle, the open-plan office, and finally, the the modern tech campus.
We'll also cover the history of modern work-from-home, which has a lot more to it than the recent pandemic.

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1.9: Agile at Scale

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As the Internet grew in the 2000s, it drove the creation of far more large and complicated software organizations than the industry had ever seen before. This posed hard new questions, leading to both a crisis of confidence -- "Agile is Dead!" -- as well as to some fresh green shoots in the form of DevOps.

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1.11: So what?

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Sixty thousand words and six hours of audio later, we've made it to the end of season 1 of Product Fundamentals!
This episode, we'll revisit the question that we started with: why do we make software in the way that we do? I'll draw some principles from the story we've covered, and suggest what that history indicates about what could come next.
I hope you'll stay subscribed to this feed -- while the first season is over, there are a few bonus bits that should follow, plus (hopefully!) a second season to follow.
Thanks for listening!

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Product Fundamentals - 1.10: Where We Work

Transcript

Hello friends, and welcome to the Product Fundamentals Podcast, Episode 10: Where We Work.

This episode has been a bit delayed by some technical challenges and by me fighting with a cold – hopefully, both those issues have been sufficiently resolved now and my voice won’t be too raspy for this episode. My apologies, and thanks for bearing with me.

All right.

So far, we’ve spent nine episodes talking about the history of how we work as a matter of technology and process.