Episode 201: 195 RR Building Your Technology Radar with Neal Ford

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 201: 195 RR Building Your Technology Radar with Neal Ford
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 00:58:15
• Published: 2015-02-18 13:00

02:25 - Neal Ford Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• ThoughtWorks
• iPhreaks Show Episode #084: Building Your Technology Radar with Neal Ford
• Freelancers' Show Episode 145: Life as a Traveling Consultant with Neal Ford
• RailsConf 2010: Neal Ford "Creativity & Constraint"   

02:20 - The Thoughtworks Technology Radar

• Rebecca Parsons

06:28 - Quadrants

• Techniques
• Tools
• Languages & Frameworks
• Platforms

07:01 - Categories (Rings)

• Hold
• Assess
• Trial
• Adopt

09:23 - Adopting New Technologies

• William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
• Cycle Time
• Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar
• [YouTube] Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar

14:42 - Providing Familiarity Resources

15:24 - Radars as Resources and Lifecycle Assessment Tools

• Intentional Software
• Radar A-Z

18:36 - Themes

22:17 - Making Decisions

• Diversify
• Testability

27:40 - Jamming Radars

31:53 - Hireability?

• Paying Developers to Learn

36:54 - Financial Portfolios and Planning Your Career

• Specialization vs Generalization

42:03 - Software Architecture & Engineering Practices

• Microservices

43:57 - Functional Programming

• Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax by Neal Ford
• Clojure

44:16 - Estimation

46:03 - Creating Your Own Radar

• Brett Dargan: bdargan/techradar
• Blip Placement
• Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar

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