Developing Fatigue

This week Kris and Brandon talk about building trust across teams. Their discussion includes a handful of personal stories on the subject including when they felt trusted, frustrated and everything in between.

References

Ruby on Rails

Postmortem

Enneagram

Impostor Syndrome

aws

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Brandon and Kris attempt to console Toran as he wrestles with the idea that his reputation might be on the line as he makes the transition into gaming software development.

References

Monkey Patching

Extreme Programming (XP)

Test First

DevOps

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge

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Kris and Toran discuss lightning talks, the tradeoffs associated with remote work and 1 minute praisings. They also touch on work ethic and finding focus time while remaining connected.

References

Testing Multi-Node Phoenix @ElixirConf

F3 Nation

The acceptance testing burden

The New One Minute Manager

Impostor Syndrome

How to Win Friends & Influence People

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We kick off season 2 with a discussion about the career transition both Kris and Toran made in early 2019. We also hear from Brandon about training up new hires, the force multiplier effect and embracing challenges from less experienced engineers.

References

MacBook Pro

Key Bindings for VSCode

Lonestar Elixir

Vue.js

Elm

Enneagram

GNU Debugger

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How do you do a code review and provide feedback in a non threatening way? How do you receive code review feedback? What is the point of code reviews? Listen to Kris, Toran, and Brandon cover these questions in how to give and receive code reviews to level up your team.

References

Code Review

Creating a pull request

20% of code lives > 5 years

ember-a11y

graphQL workshop

Bullet Journal

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Kris, Toran, and Brandon discuss what a cross functional team is and how to get the most out of the team setup. They cover team composition strategies that improve the flow of work and how crossing boundaries can increase throughput.

References

Cross Functional Team

Modern Agile

Active Listening

Docker

Skin in the game

No Silver Bullet

Release Management

F3 Nation

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This week Toran and Brandon are interviewed by Kris as we learn more about consulting. We talk about the differences between consulting and contracting, why consultants/contractors tend to have a high hourly rate, some of the business and legal aspects of consulting, how to land that first consulting job and ultimately why they left consulting to return to full time employment.

References

Kris Van Houten on twitter

Brandon Williams on twitter

Toran Billups on twitter

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This week the trio diverges from the normal format as they do an interview style episode on the topic of remote work. Brandon dives right in with questions on how to do it well, what are the pros of working remote, why Kris and Toran like working remote and concludes with how to land that first remote developer job.

References

Kris Van Houten on twitter

Brandon Williams on twitter

Toran Billups on twitter

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This week we talk about retention and how companies can keep people in this industry as people are seemingly transient in their jobs. We discuss about some reasons that people might choose to move on in their career. We cover some signs that can help you know when it's time to look for a new job and how good leadership has a large impact on retaining top talent and a couple of ways that leaders can influence people to grow in their career at the company.

References

YouthCode

Servant leadership

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

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In our episode on interviewing, we converse about the good and bad interviews we have had (from the interviewee perspective). We then move on to what we look for when we're conducting interviews and some of the things we wish that people would change about the interview process (take home projects, whiteboards, and questions related to the theoretical part of computer science). We also cover how we prepare for interviews and answers we prepare for commonly asked questions.

References

The Art of Pairing

Pair Programming

T-shaped people

Glassdoor

Kris on github

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