Jai has dedicated her entire career to managing and building technical products from a non-technical perspective. She’s an AWS product maven and an Agile pro who's spent over a decade partnering with like-minded practitioners to introduce CI/CD practices, cloud-native solutions, and deliver products that drive developers further up the value line. Jai leads the product practice in Global Digital Services, where customer point of view and the developer experience are everything—yet she still wants to be an astronaut.

Connect with Jai: LinkedIn

Liberty Mutual

Punky Brewster

John Cutler

Jai’s Playlist: Bonnaroo 2021, Joan Jett

Leah Cunningham is a technology professional with over twenty years of experience building, leading, and coaching teams to maximize value, delivery, and quality. She joins Ryan Shriver for EP 21. They cover chaos engineering, the benefits of task conflict, best practices for managing teams, acknowledging fallibility in leadership roles, the importance of playing > planning, and so much more.

Connect with Leah: LinkedIn

Verica

Chaos Engineering

Casey Rosenthal

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

Mob Programming, Woody Zuill

Semantic Diffusion, Martin Fowler

Revenge of the PMO, Marty Cagan

Spaghetti Tower Marshmallow Challenge

The Electric Fetus, Minneapolis MN

Leah’s soundtrack: Grant Green, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Trampled by Turtles

Is it possible to switch to The Cloud, in a way that is cost-effective and efficient? Wes North helps businesses evaluate risks and leverage their automated potential. In his interview with Ryan Shriver, he dives into this question and the future of technology operations— plus so much more!

Connect with Wes: LinkedIn, Twitter 

Cornerstone

Gene Kim – IT Revolution

Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity

Terraform: IaC at Enterprise Scale

Azure: IaC at Enterprise Scale

AWS CloudFormation: IaC at Enterprise Scale

Tom Illmensee is a product strategist, UX designer and researcher, startup coach, entrepreneur, music-maker, improviser, truth-seeker, and community organizer based in Richmond, VA. He is a Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie, a digital innovation studio, and Co-Founder and CEO of Orbital Music Park, an inclusive community and creative space for music-makers. 

Tom joins Ryan Shriver for Bounded Context EP 19 and sheds light on the question, how do we honor our time with others? 

Connect with Tom: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter

Song X Studio

Orbital Music Park

Philosophie Group Inc.

Welcome to the Universe, Neil Degrasse Tyson

The Practicing Stoic, Ward Farnsworth

Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better, Pema Chödrön

Pocket Change, Nate Smith

Mandolin U Srinivas

Prince

Will the term “serverless” last? David Anderson joins Ryan Shriver for Episode 18 of Bounded Context to unpack this question and many more. If you’re curious about the Serverless First mindset or cutting costs on your digital journey, this interview is for you!

Connect with David: LinkedIn, Website, Twitter

Notes

Wardley Mapping

Domain Driven Design

Pioneers, Settlers, Time-Planners

Team Typologies

Kent Beck, 3X Model: Explore, Expand, Extract

The Secrets of Consulting, Gerald Weinburg

Marty Cagan

Mary Poppendieck

Chaos Community

Nick Tune is all about prioritizing outcomes and elevating the product mindset. He joins Ryan Shriver to unpack building autonomous teams and building the RIGHT thing VS. building the thing RIGHT.

Connect with Nick Tune: 

LinkedIn, Website, Blog, Talks, Twitter

Notes:

LeanUX, Jeff Gothelf

Inspired, Marty Cagan

Eric Evans

Ida Pierce is a lifelong designer, creative problem-solver, and currently the Process and Solutions Manager at Markel’s Finance Organization. She joins Ryan Shriver to share how Design Thinking shapes her ability to connect, direct, and contribute to problem-solving. They cover empathy and assumption mapping, talent design, fair and inclusive hiring processes, and designing products and processes for good.

Episode Notes:

OpenIDEO – Richmond Chapter

The Read Center

Wonderbolt Labs

VA HBCU's

When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Understand Design Thinking in Under 5 Minutes

Bounded Context

Productivity Engineering is at the forefront of the DevOps movement, resembling "bounded context" principles — assess the problem, identify the end-goal, gain alignment, build a framework for how to get there, and push individual teams towards objectives quickly and efficiently. Andrew Glover, Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix, breaks down the core concept with examples, experiences, and influences along the way.

Andrew Glover: Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter

Notes:

Productivity Engineering

Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P Brooks

The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt

Team of Rivals, Doris Goodwin

a16z

Cautionary Tales

Java Design, Peter Coad

Ryan reconnects with Tom Gilb— author, teacher, consultant, methods inventor, and Senior Partner at GILB.com. They met at a conference in London in 2005 and stayed sharing tips, trends, changes, revelations, and pearls of wisdom in the world of problem-solving. Plus: FREE digital copies of Tom's best-selling books.

Tom's: Website, Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter

Notes: 

Tom Gilb at TEDxTrondheim

Value Agile, Tom Gilb

Innovative Creativity, Tom Gilb 

Enterprise Architecture Success Kit, Tom Gilb

Competitive Engineering, Tom Gilb 

Graphmetrix

Theory of Sampling, W. Edwards Deming

In episode 13 of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver speaks with Dr. Miriam Friedel about technical vs. strategic problem-solving, leveraging machine learning to improve human processes, and how boots pair nicely with software engineering.

Connect with Miriam: LinkedIn, Blog

Capital One Tech

How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

Untamed, Glennon Doyle

Hamilton Soundtrack