Elisabeth is an author and technology executive with a proven track record for growing leadership teams and shaping cultures to build innovative products at a sustainable pace. She is the Founder and CTO of Curious Duck Digital Laboratory, a company that is building a game to explore tradeoffs in software development. Sign up to be the first to play. 

Connect with Elisabeth: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter

Check out her books: Explore It! and There's Always a Duck.

Episode links:

Game Development Conference (GDC) Talks

Gerald Weinberg, Systems Thinking

Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, Theory of Constraints (TOC)

Peter Senge, Intro to Systems Thinking

Relationship and Difference Between Greenplum and PostgreSQL

Comparing Rails, StimulusReflex, and Hotwire

Ruby on Rails

Tim Beattie is Global Head of Product and a Senior Principal Engagement Lead for Red Hat Open Innovation Labs. His career in product delivery spans 20 years as an Agile and Lean Transformation Coach.

His new book, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift features real-world practices—some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related—to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering.

Connect with Tim: LinkedIn, Twitter 

Book: DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

E-book: DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift 

Red Hat Open Innovation Labs

Red Hat free e-book

Open Source, Open Minds

Mobius Loop

Gabrielle Benefield, Bounded Context Ep. 9

CI/CD continuous integration continuous delivery

Eric Cunningham bridges the divide between business and technology to design and implement solutions that enable rapid, sustainable growth for companies conducting business on a global scale. From customer-facing to back-end environments, he creates IT strategies, development roadmaps, and service architectures that support business goals and contributes to corporate value creation. When it comes to engineering and architecture, Eric embraces the power of cloud-native computing and living in a non-datacenter world.

Ryan and Eric discuss cloud migration architecture patterns, iterative development with guardrails, engineering feedback loops, blockchain, quantum computing, serverless, batch processes, and how to establish and maintain domain expertise in the age of information.

Connect with Eric: LinkedIn

Episode Notes:

Capital One Tech

Individual Contributors and People Leaders

Challenger Model

Mike Eason

Melanie Frank

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Power Play, by Tim Higgins

Conan O’Brein Needs a Friend

Chris Matts used his extensive knowledge of financial derivatives to develop an approach on how to deal with decision-making and named it real options. Unlike the "traditional" Real Options approach that is based on Black-Scholes, his approach avoids complex mathematics and focuses on the practical implications of options. His model teaches us to understand the timing of decision-making and discover new options that were never appreciated. Chris teamed up with Olav Maassen and Chris Geary to create the first business graphic novel about managing risk on projects. In the novel, the main character Rose Randall learns how to apply the real options approach to the way she manages her new project.

He joins Ryan Shriver to discuss risk management, Real Options, how to improve decision making, key project management tools, and so much more.

Connect with Chris: LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog, Book

Episode Links:

Commitment: Novel about Managing Project Risk

Commitment Blog 

"Real Options" Underline Agile Practices 

Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics

Tony Grout

Ace is a listener, mediator, guide, and speaker with the ability to read an audience - in person or digitally - and draw from them their toughest questions, greatest vulnerabilities, and boldest ideas. An instinctive bridge-builder, he brings intellectual openness and deploys the most sophisticated techniques to ensure parties truly hear each other and stretch their creative minds to find innovative solutions to some of the world’s most intractable challenges.

Ryan and Ace discuss why an elegant solution to the wrong problem is an elegant solution to the wrong problem; The Five Why’s; the anatomy of a good idea; 3 unique ideation methods: brainwriting, worst idea, other people’s shoes; product-side vs. human-side of solution testing; and control what you can control and influence the variables. Plus, Ace shares his biggest influences and lessons learned along the way. Get ready to laugh and be inspired.

Connect with Ace: Linkedin, Website, Twitter, Message

Episode Links:

Envoy

Principles of Improv Theater in Practice

The Anatomy of a Good Idea

Art Espey

Cami Téllez

Tommy Nicholas

Justin Bullock

Coffitivity

Equal Sons

Jam with Ace: Manchester Orchestra, Michigander, Little Simz, Miles Davis, Explosions in the Sky, John Coltrane

How do we define critical thinking? Apply it? Learn it? Can we teach students and adults how to think more critically? In Episode 27, Dave Carillo joins Ryan Shriver to answer these questions and so much more. 

Dave is Co-Founder of one of the country’s first academic offices devoted solely to studying critical thinking and raising critical thinking outcomes. He served as the lead administrator of the Interdisciplinary Writing and Reasoning Portfolio, has been published by The Hill, and is a critical thinking subject matter expert (SME) for the U.S. military. Dave lives in West Hartford, CT with his wife and two children.

Connect with Dave: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Podcast

Episode Notes

The Critical Thinking Initiative

Group Dynamics, Ideating, and Brainstorming, Smarterer Podcast

Smarterer Podcast, Dave Carillo and Steven Pearlman 

America’s Critical Thinking Crisis: The Failure and Promise of Education, Steven Pearlman

Relaxing train sounds

Raw ice sounds

Otava Yo

Aphex Twin

Mathias Verraes runs a boutique consultancy that advises organizations on designing and modeling software for complex environments, including architecture, analysis, testing, and refactoring “unmaintainable” systems. He has worked with clients in Finance, Government, Supply Chain, Mobility, Energy, E-Commerce, and more. He teaches Domain-Driven Design courses and curates the DDD Europe conference. When he’s at home in Kortrijk, Belgium, he helps his two sons build crazy Lego contraptions. 

Connect with Mathias: LinkedIn, Blog, Website, Twitter

Notes:

Domain-Driven Design Europe

Refactoring, Martin Fowler

DDD Conference Europe, Eric Evans

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: Blog, Twitter

Designing Object-Oriented Software, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts, by Mathias Verraes and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Data and Reality, William Kent

Object Thinking, Dave West

Cognitive Edge, Dave Snowden

Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers

String Quartets Pop Music, MV's Current Playlist

Brandon Linton is passionate about helping teams create amazing customer experiences through cloud architecture, lean software development, and product discovery. He specializes in the principles and practices that make for continuous delivery and software platforms that drive innovation.

Episode 25 covers Enterprise Architecture; helping teams achieve speed, quality, and better culture through living out DevOps principles; and so much more. 

Connect with Brandon: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter

Episode Links:

CarMax

Shadow Price

Team Topologies, Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton

Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren Ph.D., Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

Continuous Delivery, Jez Humble and David Farley

The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner

Martin Fowler

Building Microservices, Sam Newman

API Intersection Stoplight Podcast

How Do Companies Invent? Melvin Conway

Jason Hall is an organizational servant with coaching strengths in creating safe spaces for teams to thrive, have fun, and most importantly deliver amazing products that customers love. He helps organizations develop a more customer-centric approach to product delivery grounded in measurable success. He's always learning, sharing, and striving to cultivate better organizations.

Episode Notes:

Coaching Towards Impactful Product over Working Software by Jason Hall

Collaborative Structures LLC

Teresa Torres, Product Talk

Continuous Discovery Habits

Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Thinking

Dan Ariely

Malcolm Gladwell

MF DOOM

Tyler, The Creator

Freddie Gibbs

Anne-Jeanette LeBell has over 25 years of proven success in software engineering and architecture. She cofounded BankShift, a mobile and web application to help you manage money, see all your assets in one place, make payments, shuffle money around, and accomplish what you need to do with your accounts. 

This episode covers the emergence of open banking, the motivation behind BankShift, starting a business from the ground up, approaching gender stereotypes, how empathy and uncomfortable conversations can yield change, and so much more.

Connect with Anne-Jeanette: LinkedIn, Twitter

BankShift

How does BankShift work?

Julie Elberfeld

A Cloud Guru

CodeRVA

Alison Levine

Domain-Driven Design, Eric Evans