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Episode 419: John Ellithorpe on the Role of a CTO

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Episode 419: John Ellithorpe on the Role of a CTO

John Ellithorpe, currently EVP & Chief Product Officer @DNAnexus discusses the role of a CTO based on his unique perspective of having been in that role and having that role report into him. From the book “Book CTO’s at work” – There is no one way to define the CTO role. “CTO’s are managers, researchers, […]

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SE-Radio Episode 317: Travis Kimmel on Measuring Software Engineering Productivity

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SE-Radio Episode 317: Travis Kimmel on Measuring Software Engineering Productivity

Kishore Bhatia talks with Travis Kimmel on software engineering measuring, communicating and improving engineering productivity, and challenging the widespread belief that engineering is an art. Their conversation covers: measuring engineering impact; key performance indicators (KPIs); development metrics; challenges in building a delivery pipeline with metrics; implementing feedback loops; the key metrics that most engineering teams […]

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SE Radio Episode 245: John Sonmez on Marketing Yourself and Managing Your Career

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SE Radio Episode 245: John Sonmez on Marketing Yourself and Managing Your Career

Charles Anderson talks to John Sonmez, the author of Soft Skills—“the software developer’s life manual.” They start out discussing the book and what it covers, which is pretty much everything in a developer’s life outside of code. The book contains seven sections; they discuss two of them: “Career” and “Marketing Yourself.” John discusses the value […]

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Episode 207: Mitchell Hashimoto on the Vagrant Project

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Episode 207: Mitchell Hashimoto on the Vagrant Project

Charles Anderson talks to Mitchell Hashimoto about the Vagrant open source project, which can be used to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. Vagrant aims to make new developers on a project productive within minutes of joining the project instead of spending hours or days setting up the developer’s workstation. The outline […]

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Episode 131: Adrenaline Junkies with DeMarco and Hruschka

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Episode 131: Adrenaline Junkies with DeMarco and Hruschka

This episode is an interview with Tom DeMarco and Peter Hruschka about the new book of the Altantic Systems Guild:
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior.

This is a session recorded live at OOP 2009. SE Radio thanks Tom and Peter, SIGS Datacom and the programme chair, Frances Paulisch, for their great support!

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