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Technology is easy. Dealing with people is hard. The biggest hurdle to most software developers career growth is their mastery of the soft skills. Bill Edmondson and Phillip Turpin, both long time programmers and technology leaders, share with you their own hard earned lessons in navigating their careers in software development.
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English
United States
13 episodes
since Jan. 25, 2021
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Do you find yourself your planning sessions get stuck in unending philosophical discussions? Everybody wants to do things the "right way" but they all disagree on what is right. At some point you have to bring the discussion to a close and start producing value. In this episode we talk ab…
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Getting fired feels like the end of the world. It breaks fear and uncertainty, It makes you doubt your ability. Fortunately, it is not as bad as it feels. Phillip and Bill share their own experiences of being fired, how they dealt with it and strategies for dealing with your own situation.
Getting fired feels like the end of the world. It breaks fear and uncertainty, It makes you doubt your ability. Fortunately, it is not as bad as it feels. Phillip and Bill share their own experiences of being fired, how they dealt with it and strategies for dealing with your own situation.
Interviewing is a hugely important skill but since we do it so infrequently we are terrible at it. Here are a few tips on how to interview for software development roles.
What does creativity look like, why is it important, and how do you get it?
If you boss could ask one thing of you it would be to "Take ownership". There is too much to do and too many unknowns for him make all the decisions. Your boss needs somebody who is able to think ahead, notice problems, and fill in the gaps. Most people are order takers. They sit and wai…
Good team alignment allows groups of developers to be more than the sum of their individual parts. Unfortunately, there are some common behaviors from developers that prevent this alignment. In this episode we talk about seven of these behaviors.
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Software developers like details but it also means we can sometimes have a hard time making decisions. The process of decision making can be hard for us but there is hope.
There is a companion to intelligence called hard work. If you are going to win at your software development career you have to put in the reps. This may seem like common sense but if you are naturally very intelligent you may find many things come easy to you. Unfortunately, this may have also inad…
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