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SE Radio 655: Charles Humble on Professional Skills for Software Engineers

SE Radio 655: Charles Humble on Professional Skills for Software Engineers

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 1 Jahr

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In this episode, Charles Humble speaks
withhost Brijesh Ammanath about skills that can
provide developers a grounding in systems thinking.

Charles is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry, including as a
former software engineer, architect, and CTO, as well as former
editor in chief of InfoQ and chief editor for Container
Solutions. He has published "Professional Skills for
Software Engineers" as a series of 14 O'Reilly shortcuts covering
communication, critical thinking, documentation, and
networking.

Underlying his work is the idea that as complexity
increases in IT systems, the roles of architects and leaders move
from linear thinking to something that might be more broadly
defined as systems thinking -- looking at problems and systems as
a whole rather than just the individual parts. This requires a
skill set that isn't generally taught or widely valued as an
industry -- in part, because it's hard to test in whiteboard
interviews. It requires a mixture of communication skills;
interpersonal skills; critical thinking; the ability to
synthesize large amounts of information.

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