Patrick Kua on Growing Technical Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, midnight

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.\n\nIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Patrick Kua from ThoughtWorks on growing technical leadership and evolutionary architecture\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n - There is a significant gap in technical leadership capability in teams and across the industry as a whole\n - Your experience as a developer doesn\u2019t prepare you for a tech lead roleRecognize that the skills and responsibilities are very different and find ways to build the new skills \u2013 training, mentoring and support\n - Software will continue to be changed so it is important to build it for changeability from the beginning\n - Many of the big decisions which are made at the beginning of a product\u2019s life will change over time, build the ability to change into the core architectural design\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2vy4xl4\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nWant to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2vy4xl4