Conversations about Software Engineering

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Adam Tornhill on Software Design X-Rays

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Sven Johann talks to Adam Tornhill about the link between how organizations write code and how teams work together. Adam Tornhill can make this link visible to help improve your team’s code and your organization's work. The interview is based on Adam's book "Software Design X-Rays".

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Show Notes

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club

Chapter Marks:

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 2:54 Behavioral code analysis
  • 8:53 Hotspot analysis and technical debt
  • 14:42 Trends analysis
  • 21:05 System mastery
  • 24:11 Software Design X-Ray
  • 27:18 The more metrics the better?
  • 30:09 Change coupling
  • 33:19 Copy-paste dilemma
  • 42:40 Change coupling gets more expensive with distance
  • 45:20 Team structure visualized in the code
  • 53:52 Outro

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