In this episode, we discuss how we work as a cloud consulting company, including our principles, engagement process, sprint methodology, and focus on agile development to deliver successful projects. We aim to be trusted partners, not just vendors, and enable our customers' business goals.

By the end of this episode, you will know what working with a cloud consulting company like fourTheorem could look like and you might learn some strategies to make cloud projects a success! We will also digress a little into the history of software practices, common misconceptions, and what we believe should be the right way to build software.

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AWS Bites is sponsored by fourTheorem, an AWS Partner with plenty of experience delivering cloud projects to production. If you want to chat, reach out to us on social media or check out [ Ссылка ]


🔖 Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:27 Background on the founding of fourTheorem and focus on quality over quantity
05:00 Discovery session to understand customer's problem space
10:54 How software projects differ from traditional engineering
12:15 The coffee grinder vs mobile website analogy
15:34 The Waterfall Approach and why it's the wrong mental model
17:28 Our definition of Agile software development
23:01 Developers' productivity. Is it just about lines of code?
28:22 Sprint zero workshop to align on mission, requirements, architecture
34:38 Regular two-week sprints focused on coding, testing, documentation, and demos
40:36 How to balance business milestones with the agile methodology
42:52 What happens when we complete the first project?
43:53 Summary, conclusion, and call for feedback


In this episode, we mentioned the following resources.

- Working with fourTheorem (blog post): [ Ссылка ]
- AI as a service, book by Peter Elger and Eoin Shanaghy: [ Ссылка ]
- Majority of developers spending half, or less, of their day coding, report finds (TechRepublic article): [ Ссылка ]
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- 2023 software.com Future of Work Report: [ Ссылка ]
- Managing the Development of Large Software Systems, Dr. WInston W. Royce, 1970: [ Ссылка ]


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