Why Software Development Sucks And 7 Mental Models To Help Fix It

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Thanos Diacakis about how teams often struggle with software delivery. He proposes a shift in mental models and a four-step framework to systematically improve software development by focusing on bottlenecks, balancing different types of work beyond just feature delivery, and investing 20-30% of effort in improving how the team works. Read a transcript of this interview:

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This episode is 00:28:20 long.

This episode was published on Sep 12, 2025.

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