Socio-Technical Smells: How Technical Problems Cause Organizational Friction - GOTO 2023

Explore how technical problems can lead to organizational friction in software development through behavioral code analysis in this 45-minute conference talk. Learn to identify architectural coordination bottlenecks, visualize implicit team dependencies, discover and mitigate knowledge risks through Truck Factor measurement, communicate scaling risks related to Brooks's Law, and understand the impact of bad code on team morale and attrition. Gain insights from real-world codebases to prevent socio-technical issues, improve team coordination, and enhance software quality. Ideal for senior developers, software architects, and technical leads seeking to balance code and people for successful software development.

Intro
1. The overcrowded system
2. Coordination bottlenecks in the code
3. A propagating cost of change
4. Dependent work crossing team boundaries
5. Unhealthy code with a low Truck Factor
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Outro