ThoughtWorks' CTO Rebecca Parsons on Courageous Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 10:24 a.m.

b'In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks, about their recent report on the need for Courageous Leadership and her forthcoming book on Evolutionary Architecture.\\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n- Courageous leadership enables organisations to solve enterprise-scale problems while still allowing empowered development teams to produce software in an agile fashion\\n- The importance of making the link between technology advances and what they could mean for a business organisation, rather than seeing them in isolation\\n- If your metric is how many experiments succeed then you will not take enough risks \\u2013 turn this around and celebrate the learning from failed experiments\\n- The need to truly put the customer at the centre our focus, understand the kind of relationship we want with customers and how we want to interact with them\\n- Create an environment where people are recognised and valued for their varied perspectives and recognise that good ideas can come from many different places\\n- Evolutionary architecture is based on the idea that things are changing so rapidly now that you can\\u2019t predict what changes will be needed in the future\\n- Innovations around databases, architecture and continuous delivery enable evolutionary architecture to be a real thing today'