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462: Spontaneously High Performing

Embedded.fm · 19 Oct 2023 · 1h 15m · Episode 462

What this episode covers

Marian Petre, Emeritus Professor at the Open University and co-author of 'Software Design Decoded', discusses her research on how software developers become experts. She explains that high-performing teams and experts treat errors as opportunities for insight rather than failures, and emphasizes the importance of 'pair debugging' and sketching to externalize thought. Petre also addresses the gap between academic research and industry practice, highlighting the value of 'invisible work' and the need for engineering leaders to advocate for a learning culture over rigid KPIs.

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Mozilla, HP Labs
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Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think, Strange Loop, Joy of Coding, Never Work in Theory, UML, Scratch, Python, BASIC, AWK, Greg Wilson, Andre van der Hoek, Mary Shaw, Irum Rauf, Martha Hause, John, Wokwi, Godbolt, VSCode

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