This weeks Ruby Rogues episode had Neal Ford on to talk about the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. One of the things that Neal discussed was creating your own Technology Radar.
I am always on the lookout for new ways of working, particularly to make my learning better. Neal recommends putting together such a radar to help focus how we learn by being more strategic, rather then tactical. That and it serves as reminder of the things we might want to look into :)
(well for me at least).
So here’s my first go at putting such a list together:
Hold
- RequireJs (Tools)
Assess
- Gulp (Tools)
- Scala (Languages and Frameworks)
- Swift (Languages and Frameworks)
- ReactJs (Languages and Frameworks)
- Living CSS Style Guides (Techniques)
- Gradle (Tools)
- Play Framework (Languages and Frameworks)
- SnapCI (Tools)
- ES6 Transpilers (Tools)
Trial
- Browserify (Languages and Frameworks)
- Functional programming (Techniques)
- ES6 (Languages and Frameworks)
- Dashing (Languages and Frameworks)
- Phantomas (Tools)
- Build your own Technology Radar (Techniques)
- Docker (Tools)
- Programming by Intention (Techniques)
- AWS (Platforms)
- CircleCi (Tools)
Adopt
- Grunt (Tools)
- Vagrant (Tools)
- Heroku (Platforms)
- Linode (Platforms)
- CodeShip (Tools)
- Git Pull Request Workflow (Techniques)
The next step is to experiment with this visual tool for displaying your own Technology Radar. Let’s revisit this post in 6 months to see how effective this technique was and what has changed in my technology bubble.
Have you put your own Technology Radar together yet?