Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? • Hillel Wayne • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo Hillel Wayne - Chief Everything Office at Windy Coast Consulting @hillelwayne2899 RESOURCES ABSTRACT What makes software engineering different from “traditional” engineering? To find out, I interviewed 17 “crossovers”: people who have worked professionally as both a software and a traditional engineer. In aggregate, we learn three things: we are in fact engineers, we’re not actually that different as a field, and there’s a lot we can both teach and learn. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:40 Is software development a branch of engineering? 03:39 Let’s talk to engineers 04:08 3 questions 05:06 First Q: Are we really engineers? 15:29 Second Q: How similar are we to traditional engineering? 30:36 Third Q: What can we learn from each other? 32:33 What can we teach? 34:17 Version control 35:32 Conclusion 36:46 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Hillel Wayne • Practical TLA • Pete McBreen • Software Craftsmanship • Paul Bonenberger • The First Snap-Fit Handbook • Sébastien Goasguen • Docker Cookbook • Alex Cowan • Hypothesis-Driven Development • Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #SoftwareDevelopmentTutorial #ProgrammingTutorial #ProgrammingOverview #Modularity #HillelWayne #SoftwareEngineer #Iterative #Incremental #Empirical #Experimental #Feedback #Coupling #Abstraction #Cohesion #Modularity #Change #Complexity #VersionControl Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.