Looking back at key themes across technology in 2023
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.7 • 53 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
With each edition of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar, we identify a number of key themes that we see as significant in the industry. In the most recent edition — volume 29, published in September — we picked out AI-assisted software development, the challenges of measuring productivity, the rapid growth of LLMs and remote delivery workarounds beginning to mature in a post-pandemic world.
For this, the final Technology Podcast episode of 2023, a few members of the team involved in putting the Technology Radar together — Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Scott Shaw and Erik Doernenberg — got together to discuss these themes in more detail and offer their perspectives. As we leave the year behind, it's a great way to review some of the key issues and stories that shaped the way the world builds software.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. |
| 0:12.0 | I am one of your regular guests, Neil Ford, and I'm joined by another regular co-host today, Rebecca Varsons. |
| 0:19.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:21.1 | We're joined today by two of the members of the Doppler group who helped to put together |
| 0:26.1 | the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, the report that we put together twice a year. |
| 0:31.6 | That's a crowdsource from our projects. |
| 0:34.1 | One voice that you will definitely be familiar with because he's also one of our |
| 0:38.4 | podcast hosts, but he's sitting in the much more comfy guest chair today. We're joined by |
| 0:46.0 | Scott Shaw and then Eric Turnerberg. I'll let each of them introduce themselves. Hi, I'm Scott |
| 0:51.4 | Shaw. Yes. Thanks for driving today, Neil. I'm going to be the guest. |
| 0:55.8 | You can ask me questions. I'm in Australia, and I sometimes host this podcast as well. |
| 1:02.9 | And hi, I'm Eric. I'm based in Hamburg, Germany, in Europe, and I'm normally guest on this podcast, |
| 1:08.7 | and I'm really happy to be here today. And today we are talking about the Thorax Technology Radar, as I mentioned, we put out twice |
| 1:17.6 | a year and it's very much crowdsourced from things that have worked well on our projects. |
| 1:22.6 | And so that's very much generated from real project work. |
| 1:26.6 | But the only thing that we really generate as a |
| 1:28.8 | group are the themes. And as we are discussing all of the various things to make it on our |
| 1:35.0 | radar over the course of the week, at the end of the week, we try to take a step back and say, |
| 1:41.1 | did we see any sort of connective tissue between all the individual, very |
| 1:45.3 | discrete blips on our radar? |
| 1:47.6 | Is there something that kind of holistically ties them together? |
| 1:50.6 | And that's what leads to the themes. |
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