Spec-Driven Dev Is Back. But Not How You Think • Daniel Terhorst-North & Gojko Adzic

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Daniel Terhorst-North and Gojko Adzic discussing the return of spec-driven development.

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates Gojko Adzic - Software Delivery Consultant & Author of "Lizard Optimization" and many more Books Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/441 RESOURCES Daniel https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod https://github.com/tastapod https://mastodon.social/@tasta...

People in this episode

Guests: Daniel Terhorst-North, Gojko Adzic

Topics covered

• Behavior Driven Development
• Software Delivery
• Technology
• Interviews
• Consulting

Keywords

• spec-driven development
• Behavior Driven Development
• software consulting
• GOTO Unscripted
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dan North & Associates, GOTO

Books & works: Lizard Optimization

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