Courtney Wilburn - Maintainable Software Has Good Community Around It

Robby has a chat with Courtney Wilburn (She/Her/Hers), the Sr. Engineering Manager at Elastic Cloud, about why software relies on enthusiasm about its long-term success, the traits of excellent documentation, Courtney’s approach to joining a software team, the metaphor technical debt and how Courtney’s team discusses, prioritizes, and documents what and when they will (or not) focus on them, the challenges of hiring junior-level engineers and what we can do to foster mentorship in our teams, and more interesting software engineering topics.

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Do you feel like you're hitting a wall with your existing software projects? Are you curious to hear how other people are navigating this? You're not alone. On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development. Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.