The Rules of Software Development

By Andrew Woods

Technology Business Careers Software How-To

What's The Rules of Software Development about?

Let's talk about professionalism in Software Development. In this show, we will get insight on what makes a professional software developer from a range of industry players including development managers, ux designers, product owners, CTO's, recruiters and of course software developers.

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The Rules of Software Development episodes:

05.10.2020
Naomi Freeman on Empathy in Software
In this episode I'm talking to Naomi Freeman, two time nominated Woman of Influence for Royal Bank of Canada's Women Entrepreneur award. Naomi has been an engineer, team lead, CTO and founder. Naomi is also an instructor for Treehouse and...
04.04.2020
Will McGreal wants Honesty
Hey Everyone, in this episode I'm talking to Will McGreal, a technical recruitment team lead with Morgan McKinley, who specialises in the recruitment of senior technical appointments.Will and I talk about the differing aspects of the relationship that recruiters have...
03.03.2020
Support your SRE with Suhaib Naseem
In this episode I'm chatting to Suhaib Naseem, a Site Reliability Engineer for Bloomberg PolarLake here in Dublin.Suhaib comes from a background in Object Oriented Programming and as such has a good prespective on the relationship and collaboration needed between...
01.12.2020
Forget the Comments with Raul Portales
Happy New Year. In this episode I'm chatting to Raul Portales, a Senior Android Engineer in Workday, here in Dublin.Raul and I talk about commit messaging how to make it usable. We talk about the use of comments and why...
12.15.2019
Andrew Sunderland wants you to be a Craftsman
In this episode I'm chatting with Andrew Sunderland, an Engineering Manager at Ritual.co in Toronto, Canada.Andrew and I talk about Software Craftsmanship, what that means, how it can be achieved, and what exactly does it give us. We discuss the...
11.19.2019
Communication is Key with Jos van der Linden
In this episode I'm chatting with Jos van der Linden, a Programme Manager at Infocare Healthcare.Jos and I talk about the stand-out attributes of a professional software developer. Agile methodologies and how deep a software developers knowledge should be. Teams...
10.13.2019
Roger Heim wants the Passion
Welcome to Episode 4 of The Rules of Software Development. In this episode I'm chatting with Roger Heim, Mobile Engineering Manager in Verizon Media. Roger and I talk about leading mobile teams and the challenges with two different engineering platforms....
07.25.2019
Bryce Barrand wants you to be a Missionary
Welcome to Episode 3 of The Rules of Software Development. In this episode I'm chatting with Bryce Barrand, Senior Director of Product Management at Control4. Bryce talks about how to be a Missionary, not a Mercenary within software development. We...
06.13.2019
Interview with Karolina Kurdybacha
In this episode, I am chatting to Karolina Kurdybacha, currently a Product Owner in Viasat Ireland. Karolina will give her perspective on what makes a professional software developer from the Product Owners viewpoint. We’ll talk about being honest with your...
05.27.2019
Intro and Interview with Alvaro Pereda
Welcome to The Rules of Software Development podcast. I am Andrew Woods, a software development manager with 14 years experience in software. I have worked as a Java developer building out GSM messaging systems, a front-end developer using JSP, JavaScript...

What's The Rules of Software Development about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Rules of Software Development episodes:

Naomi Freeman on Empathy in Software

Will McGreal wants Honesty

Support your SRE with Suhaib Naseem

Forget the Comments with Raul Portales

Andrew Sunderland wants you to be a Craftsman

Communication is Key with Jos van der Linden

Roger Heim wants the Passion

Bryce Barrand wants you to be a Missionary

Interview with Karolina Kurdybacha

Intro and Interview with Alvaro Pereda