Beyond Coding16 Aug 2023

How to Innovate through Software with Carlos Kelkboom

Connect with Carlos Kelkboom:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-k-4016b8225

Full episode on YouTube ▶️

New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode!

OUTLINE:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:23 - YouTube recommendation system
00:02:15 - Innovation on YouTube
00:03:37 - Starting up something new
00:05:12 - Disrupting your own organisation
00:07:08 - Big companies should invest in disruption continuously
00:08:52 - The start of a project
00:11:29 - How important is it to build this?
00:13:24 - Building the system three times
00:14:54 - complexity and first time right
00:17:08 - All you need is disciplined engineers
00:19:43 - Architects can do more harm than good
00:21:50 - Smaller teams
00:23:28 - Not every team needs Scrum
00:24:33 - Let engineers commit and then leave them alone
00:25:48 - Processes that are not helping us
00:28:19 - Using the right tool for the job
00:32:17 - Ownership is moving to developer teams
00:32:56 - The spirit of software development
00:35:08 - How would you build something from scratch?
00:37:59 - Trust and predictability
00:39:38 - Control and fear
00:42:00 - The dna of a tech company
00:44:19 - Why tech companies have a playground in their office
00:44:49 - Getting and keeping developers in a flow state
00:46:30 - Stop projects that are not working
00:49:49 - Stopping is hard
00:50:21 - Why games release when they do
00:50:35 - Prove it works in 10 days
00:51:52 - The fulfilment of delivering value to users
00:53:18 - How great developers work
00:55:14 - How you become a senior developer
00:57:35 - Downtime and execution
00:58:42 - The determination to continue
01:01:01 - Empathy and nudging
01:03:42 - Carlos might start a contrarian podcast
01:06:02 - Rounding off

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