Posts with keyword: software+development


Making It Big in Software

This week on Technometria, Scott and I talk with Sam Lightstone about his new book Making It Big in Software. The book isn't just about great software personalities, although you could be forgiven for thinking so looking at the cover. This excellent book is career advice for developers at every stage. The interviews with 17 software greats are interspersed between the chapters on everything from what they didn't teach you in school to becoming a leader and visionary. I enjoyed talking to Sam and reading the book.
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Cydni Tetro on Using Scrum

This weeks's Technometria podcast features Cydni Tetro. Cyd is with NextPage and recently took over responsibility for managing development in addition to her product management duties. We talked for a great deal of the interview about the use of Scrum and what works and what doesn't. Of course we also got in some discussion of Twitter.
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The Yin and Yang of Software Development

This ACM Queuecast by Mike Vizard interviews Sergei Sokolov, Solutions Manager, for C++ at Parasoft about how putting in the right infrastructure elements allows an innovative development process to exist despite the structure the project wants to impose on the process. You can also listen to the interview if you'd rather.
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