0142 - Software@ with Ahmed and Julien

Next up we will be talking to Ahmed Ashour, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft and Julien Sirocchi, SaaS Cloud Security Director at Oracle. Both guests are experts in their domain. Together we talked about the different challenges software engineers encounter when working on small to large-scale development projects. From keeping the team in sync to mundane tasks such as debugging and working with a diverse team, we covered it all.

Welcome to "Software@", on Design Talk.

Aradhika : My name is Aradhika 

Franziska : And my name is Franziska 

Franziska: And today we are chatting with Ahmed Ashour and Julien Sirocchi.

Aradhika : Ahmed, could you say a few words about your background and experience?

[Ahmed …]

Franziska : (Thank you very much) Julien, could you tell us a little about your background and experience?

[Julien …]

Aradhika: First question: you are both software engineers with a lot of experience designing and developing software. 

If you were going to be the founder of a start-up digital service… what do you think is the ideal team to create a product from scratch?

Franziska: What approaches have worked well for sharing or improving the knowledge and skills of people on teams you’ve worked with?

Aradhika: Could you talk about things you would do to help improve the environment in teams, focusing on the organisational or professional culture aspects of working in software?

Franziska: Has the software industry completely shifted away from the Project Development Lifecycle or waterfall, towards Agile and Scrum? Surely there are some systems or projects that need the control and rigor of waterfall methods.

Aradhika: Big companies often encounter challenges in having many different teams in different locations, perhaps in the same buildings, or different sites, or even different countries. How do you keep teams synchronised, on the same page, and collaborating rather than conflicting with each other?

Franziska: Not all software design work is cool. Do people avoid dealing with the more mundane parts like bug fixes and administrative tasks? Do we need to make this part of digital more important, more appealing or not?

Aradhika: So, on that note…

I would like to thank you both for taking the time to talk with us today.

And for sharing your knowledge and experience reflecting "Software@".

Thank you for listening.

And thank you to the production team:

Fitzpatrick Conor

Freidel Franziska

Kornilov Vladimir

Nigam Aradhika

Steiner Christof

Acknowledgements

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