Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? • Hillel Wayne • GOTO 2023

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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

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Hillel Wayne • Practical TLA+ • https://amzn.to/45UcEGP
Pete McBreen • Software Craftsmanship • https://amzn.to/456einq
Paul Bonenberger • The First Snap-Fit Handbook • https://amzn.to/46618YU
Sébastien Goasguen • Docker Cookbook • https://amzn.to/48tsR7j
Alex Cowan • Hypothesis-Driven Development • https://amzn.to/43TvH2x
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • https://amzn.to/3hJ2Ye2
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M

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