Bryce Barrand wants you to be a Missionary

07/25/19 • 34 min

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 look at the importance of having the software engineers as much involved in the product decisions as anyone, and Bryce talks about how he took his development team on a full day offsite to work with the Product team in the initial phases of product ideation.
Bryce also talks about working with Charles Kindel at Control4 and that we should all be reading his blog: https://ceklog.kindel.com/
And of course, we get a great Book Recommendation from Bryce:
INSPRIED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love By Marty Cagan

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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 product owner, understanding the full product end to end, knowing why there is an Agile process and how you can influence it.

Also, we’ll discuss the need for developers to be engaged and proud of what they are building and why they should feel confident to raise concerns, whether technical or user based, to their Product Owner.

I also quiz Karolina on how she feels about tech debt build-up and whether she believes we should be prioritising tests.

Karolina also gives her book recommendation in Simon Sinek’s 'Start with Why' and we also mention The Phoenix Project during our discussion. Both books are linked below.

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Books:
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps and Helping Your Business Win By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

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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. Roger is looking for engineers with a Passion for what they do and their chosen platform. We discuss how often mobile engineers can have a better understanding of the design principles for their chosen platform than some UX Designers.
We also talk about commit messaging, how to hand Pull Request updates, the value of ownership and collaboration across teams.
Roger gives us a great website and book recommendation.
Software Lead Weekly, is a weekly newsletter for leaders in software who care about people, culture and leadership.
Leading Snowflakes by Oren Ellenbogan, is an Engineering Managers Handbook which gives practical tools and techniques for programmers who want to lead.
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