RSEConUK 2019

With over a decade of experience in industry as a software engineer, architect, and manager, I was expecting a move into research software engineering to involve a straightforward application of my experiences and skills to a new domain. In fact I quickly discovered that the contexts and motivations are different enough that even when we adopt the same practices, it's often for very different reasons. Research Software Engineering needs a different set of guiding values and principles from industrial software engineering; Agile software development and Software Craftsmanship do not supply those values.