111. How we run a Cloud Consulting business

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. 💰 SPONSORS 💰 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 https://fourTheorem.com 🔖 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): https://fourtheorem.com/working-with-... AI as a service, book by Peter Elger and Eoin Shanaghy: https://www.manning.com/books/ai-as-a... Majority of developers spending half, or less, of their day coding, report finds (TechRepublic article): https://www.techrepublic.com/article/... g-report-finds/ 2023 software.com Future of Work Report: https://www.software.com/reports/futu... Managing the Development of Large Software Systems, Dr. WInston W. Royce, 1970: https://www.praxisframework.org/files... You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7Pzq... Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites RSS: ​​https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on X, formerly Twitter:   / eoins     / loige   #aws #consulting #consultant #business #agile #software #cloud #opinion