Code for Thought

English Edition: I want to come back to agile development practices with my guest Dave Thomas, or Pragmatic Dave as he is also known in the trade. Dave is one of the authors of the manifesto for agile development - and we talk about what has become of the aims and aspirations of agile development since the manifesto's publication in 2001. 
Links:
https://agilemanifesto.org the manifesto of agile software development
https://pragdave.me/ Dave's home page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M Agile is dead by Dave Thomas - YouTube
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Versión  en espagñol: El software se está comiendo al mundo, y esto incluye al mundo científico. En estos días, hacer ciencia requiere también desarrollar software, ya sea usando Python para analizar datos, o construyendo aplicaciones web en JavaScript para compartir modelos computacionales con expertos. Mientras muchos científicos se encargan ellos mismos de estas tareas, otros las delegan a especialistas en desarrollo de software científico. Estos especialistas tienen el título de "ingenieros de software de investigación".
En esta edición del podcast, Sofía Miñano y Carlos Gavidia-Calderón, ambos ingenieros de software de investigación trabajando en el Reino Unido, conversan sobre su profesión. Entre otras cosas, comentan:
Cómo se puede hacer carrera en ingeniería de software de investigación.
Las diferencias que ven entre construir software dentro y fuera de la comunidad científica.
Los retos de la ingeniería de software y de la ciencia en Latinoamérica..
La comunidad de ingenieros de software y científicos hispanohablantes.
Links
Seminario “Charlas RSE en espanol”: https://charlas-rse-espanol.github.io/ 
Conferencia RSLA 2026: https://rs-latam.org/ 
ixpantia: https://www.ixpantia.com/en/ 
Link a la transcripción en español:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_ES.txt 
Link to the translated transcript in English: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_EN.txt 
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English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell, we're going to talk about what kinds of data we find on old drives, why we want to get them in the first place, and what can go wrong with the storage media. To all of you who love all things retro - we'll be talking about floppy disks a bit. 
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A PDF A format
https://www.ibm.com/history/floppy-disk history of floppy disks
https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=2140 The BBC Domesday projecthttps://domesday.computinghistory.org.uk/

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ The excellent Centre of Computing History in Cambridge, UK
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849567/ stability of DVDs and CDs
https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec5/ how environmental conditions affect optical drives
Conference announcements
https://rse.swiss/swiss_rse_day Swiss RSE Day, 31 August 2026
https://www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ International Research Software Conference 7-8 September 2026, Sheffield, UK
https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/ UK RSE Conference (the 10th anniversary) in Sheffield, UK 9-11 September 2026
https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2026/ 9 June 2026, Tromsoe, Norway
https://events.hifis.net/event/3249/overview deRSE Collaborations workshop in Goettingen, Germany 23-25 September
https://us-rse.org/usrse26/ US RSE Conference, 19-21 October 2026, San Jose, CA, USA
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English Edition: Will spec-driven development replace agile processes? My guest Graham Lee  (https://chironcodex.com/ ) and I discuss if there is still a place for agile software engineering in a world of AI assisted coding.
Links:
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html the discussion on spec driven development by Brigitta Boeckeler 
https://dev.to/cleberdelima/the-end-of-agile-when-the-assumptions-beneath-your-methodology-collapse-3g12 the blog post by Cleber de Lima quoted in the episode
https://www.sicpers.info/2025/12/is-spec-driven-development-the-end-of-agile-software-development/ Graham's blog post on spec driven development
Discussions on Spec Driven and agile development:
https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Whitepaper/Is-Agile-Dead.aspx
https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/agile-engineering-practices/spec-driven-development-unpacking-2025-new-engineering-practices
https://dev.to/jmontagne/mckinsey-just-killed-agile-why-commando-units-are-the-only-way-to-survive-legacy-migration-40lk
https://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.html
https://ronjeffries.com/categories/dark-scrum/ "dark scrum"
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamsandman_is-agile-dead-is-ai-killing-agile-development-activity-7367308312620527616--3-2/ 
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-agile-story-points-why-im-trading-sprints-spec-driven-park-6dfke/
Some tools for spec driven development
https://kiro.dev/ KIRO
https://github.com/github/spec-kit GitHub’s spec-kit
https://docs.tessl.io/ Tesla

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Seit über 25 Jahren bringt die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (LNDW) Forschungsprojekte und ForscherInnen der Allgemeinheit näher. Zusammen mit Christina Quensel, die die LNDW leitet, habe ich mich über Ursprünge, Herausforderungen und wie es mit der LNDW weitergeht unterhalten. 
Die LNDW in Berlin findet am 6. Juni 2026 statt und Tickets noch am selben Tag zu haben. Also nix wie hin...
Links
https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/  
https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm hier ist das Programm zur LNDW
https://lndw-tickets.reservix.de/p/reservix/event/2535589 Tickets
https://www.campusberlinbuch.de/de/Index

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