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- Aug 28, 202324 min
1.11: So what?
Send us Fan Mail Sixty thousand words and six hours of audio later, we've made it to the end of season 1 of Product Fundamentals! This episode, we'll revisit the question that we started with: why do we make software in the way that we do? I'll draw some principles from the story we've covered, and suggest what that history indicates about what could come next. I hope you'll stay subscribed to this feed -- while the first season is over, there are a few bonus bits that should follow, plus (...
- Aug 17, 202331 min
1.10: Where We Work
Send us Fan Mail In the penultimate episode of season 1, we're finally addressing the silent partner in all our work: the place we do it. We'll track how we got from the first large office buildings in early modern London, through the rigorously optimized work spaces of the early 20th century, on to the cubicle, the open-plan office, and finally, the the modern tech campus. We'll also cover the history of modern work-from-home, which has a lot more to it than the recent pandemic. Supp...
- Jul 26, 202334 min
1.9: Agile at Scale
Send us Fan Mail As the Internet grew in the 2000s, it drove the creation of far more large and complicated software organizations than the industry had ever seen before. This posed hard new questions, leading to both a crisis of confidence -- "Agile is Dead!" -- as well as to some fresh green shoots in the form of DevOps. Support the show For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com. Intro and outro mus...
- Jul 12, 202343 min
1.8: Quantified Leap
Send us Fan Mail The 2010s were characterized by a huge shift toward rigorous experimentation and quantification in many aspects of software development. Big data and data science, A/B testing, data science, quantified OKRs -- it was the decade that we all needed to brush up on our statistics. This episode, we cover the history behind this shift and the technologies that made it possible. Plus, we take a little detour into the contentious issue of how to make a proper cup of English tea. Sup...
- Jul 3, 202341 min
1.7: The Startup Wave
Send us Fan Mail The dot-com crash absolutely crushed the consumer Internet economy in 2000, launching a fit of soul-searching and rethinking foundational ideas about the relationships among customers, products, and companies. At the same time, new technologies like smartphones and cloud infrastructure were creating new markets and lowering starting costs. Layer in the "free money" of persistent low interest rates, and the stage was set for a generation-defining wave of startups. Support the ...
- Jun 25, 202338 min
1.6: Agile & Lean
Send us Fan Mail As the dot-com bubble came crashing down, a group of "organizational anarchists" got together at a ski resort and created the Agile Manifesto, finally providing a common banner for incremental software people. One of the most successful offshoots of Agile would be Lean Software, which took its foundations from Toyota's lean manufacturing system and brought it to software, setting the stage for the startup wave that was to soon follow. Support the show For full show transcript...
- Jun 15, 202331 min
1.5: The Agile Precursors
Send us Fan Mail In the 1990s, the advent of consumer software, the rise of the Internet, and mounting evidence of the failures of Waterfall to deliver results created space for new ideas and new ways of working. Put another way: A righteous solution was failing to handle a wicked problem. Amid all these challenges, the work of two Japanese academics researching successful hardware products planted seeds that would eventually bear fruit in the Scrum and Extreme Programming approaches. Support...
- Jun 8, 202336 min
1.4: Waterfall Ascendant
Send us Fan Mail This episode, we cover the rise of Waterfall to its dominant position over the software industry, find out what it was like in day-to-day practice, learn how it became the official way to make software on both sides of the Atlantic, and discover that old-timers have been complaining that kids these days don't how how to code since at least the 1970s. Support the show For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https:/...
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About Product Fundamentals
The Product Fundamentals podcast is dedicated to giving software professionals of all levels the core knowledge they need to thrive in their jobs. Join us for season 1, in which we unpack the deeper history of why we build software in the way we do, from the Industrial Revolution through the Space Race and on to today. Whether your role is in product management, design, engineering, or another nearby field, there should be something interesting to learn about how we work in every episode.
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