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Healthy Software Developer

Healthy Software Developer

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If working on software teams feels complicated, frustrating, and filled with politics - that's just because your eyes are open. Unfortunately, you do need to make a living! So how do you keep up with the demands of your tech job and still have a life outside of work? Hi I'm Jayme Edwards, and I've had a 26 year career in the software industry filled with thrilling victories - and maddening drama. With so many problems in our industry, the more money I made the more ridiculous people's expectations were. I’m sharing the biggest mistakes I made in my career, and the insights I learned along the way. This podcast is the audio version of the Healthy Software Developer YouTube channel, where you can find new episodes every Monday. Podcast versions appear on Wednesday of the same week. Subscribe and join us! Let’s help each other grow a community of healthy software developers.

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How To Stop Getting Overwhelmed By Your Tech Job

Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 58 seconds

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Don't Believe The AI Hype! Do This Instead...

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 10:09 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 52 seconds

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The Truth About Why Programming Isn't Fun Anymore

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 2:40 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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What Software Architects Do That Programmers DON'T

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds

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Is Your Tech Stack Holding You Back?

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds

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Healing From Burnout After 20 Years of Programming

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 6:51 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 56 seconds

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Can Programmers Ever REALLY Trust Their Manager?

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds

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Is Tech Lead the WORST Job For Most Programmers?

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 29 seconds

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If Code is Self-Documenting, Why Do Comments Exist?

Published: Aug. 4, 2022, 2:42 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds

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Most Programmers FAIL at Persuasion! Here's Why...

Published: July 27, 2022, 1:08 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds

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Is Your "Agile" Backlog REALLY a Waterfall Project?

Published: July 19, 2022, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds

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Are Programmers Really To Blame For BAD Estimates?

Published: July 11, 2022, 2:11 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds

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Why Does Scrum Make Programmers HATE Coding?

Published: July 5, 2022, 5:06 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 14 seconds

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How Senior Programmers ACTUALLY Write Code

Published: June 25, 2022, 9:31 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 37 seconds

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200 Software Developers Told Me What They REALLY Want

Published: June 17, 2022, 6:26 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds

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Is There Really Such Thing as a GOOD Programmer?

Published: June 4, 2022, 6:33 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds

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The Inconceivable Politics of My First Software Project

Published: May 24, 2022, 3:33 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 16 seconds

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Why Are Programmers Never HAPPY With Their Job?

Published: May 11, 2022, 12:43 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds

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Canceling Programmers for Mistakes? You're Next!

Published: May 4, 2022, 12:47 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 55 seconds

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Jayme Returns to Coach Healthy Developers!

Published: April 27, 2022, 12:38 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds

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My Recovery From Programmer Anger

Published: June 6, 2019, 3:03 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 20 seconds

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Scott Nimrod on Personal Reputation vs Teamwork

Published: March 15, 2019, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 9 seconds

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Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and Influencing Change

Published: March 12, 2019, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 11 seconds

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How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 4 Commitments

Published: March 8, 2019, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 4 seconds

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Response to Comments on "Sprint Planning is Bullshit!"

Published: March 6, 2019, 1:52 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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3 Embarrassing Software Developer Stories From My Career

Published: March 2, 2019, 1:38 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 3 seconds

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How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 3 Forecasting

Published: Feb. 22, 2019, midnight
Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds

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How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 2 Hiring Talent

Published: Feb. 18, 2019, midnight
Duration: 25 minutes 12 seconds

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How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 1 Founder Values

Published: Feb. 12, 2019, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds

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I Quit My Software Project To Get Healthy!

Published: Feb. 9, 2019, midnight
Duration: 19 minutes 34 seconds

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Scrum Got 3 People Fired From A Software Project!

Published: July 17, 2018, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds

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How To Get Support To Fix A "Disruptive" Problem

Published: July 14, 2018, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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They Watched Us With Webcams And Rewrote Our Code!

Published: July 10, 2018, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds

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Lead Software Developers Better By Letting Go!

Published: July 7, 2018, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds

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Its Hard To Keep A New Team Doing Continuous Delivery

Published: June 26, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds

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How To Stop Comparing Your Career To Other Developers

Published: June 23, 2018, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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John Cutler on Agile Skepticism and Making an Impact

Published: June 19, 2018, midnight
Duration: 45 minutes 27 seconds

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Can User Stories Make Your Software Project Late?

Published: June 16, 2018, midnight
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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We Were Hired For A Hidden Agenda

Published: June 12, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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Is Your Team Really Measuring Software Projects Correctly?

Published: June 9, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds

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We Designed A Software Product That Never Got Built

Published: June 5, 2018, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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Scrum Is A Motor, Agile Is The Steering Wheel

Published: June 2, 2018, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Know When To STOP Learning And Just Write The Code!

Published: May 30, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 7 seconds

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How Mistakes Make Us Better Developers (And People)

Published: May 26, 2018, midnight
Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds

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I Got By On A Software Project With Help From My Friend

Published: May 22, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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Spot A Fake Agile Team In Under 7 Minutes!

Published: May 19, 2018, midnight
Duration: 6 minutes 34 seconds

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A Tale Of Software Development Culture Change - Gone Wrong!

Published: May 14, 2018, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds

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Iain Lowe on Estimating, Culture, and Agile Dogma

Published: May 13, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 43 seconds

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Senior Developers Forget They're Really Consultants

Published: May 12, 2018, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds

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Scott Nimrod on Consulting and Software Craftsmanship

Published: May 9, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Scott Nimrod on Software Consulting, Testing, and Career

Published: May 9, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 32 seconds

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The De-Corporatization of Jayme

Published: May 8, 2018, midnight
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Why Do Leaders Treat Programmers Like Children?

Published: May 6, 2018, midnight
Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds

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Healing The Rift Between Programmers And Managers

Published: May 2, 2018, midnight
Duration: 24 minutes 20 seconds

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Daily Scrum Meeting: A Status Meeting In Disguise?

Published: April 29, 2018, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 32 seconds

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How To Really Get Promoted To Senior Developer Roles

Published: April 24, 2018, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds

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A Product Manager Is Actually Your Biggest Ally!

Published: April 22, 2018, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Is Refactoring That Code Really A Good Idea?

Published: April 18, 2018, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds

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How To Accept Difficult Circumstances On A Software Project

Published: April 6, 2018, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds

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7 Common Agile Software Development Process Fails

Published: April 4, 2018, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds

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I Can't Stop Thinking About Programming After Work!

Published: March 27, 2018, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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Why Do Some Programmers Never Agree?

Published: March 22, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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Impact Mapping: What's The Impact Of Your Work?

Published: March 18, 2018, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds

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How A Business Model Canvas Helps Agile Teams

Published: March 15, 2018, midnight
Duration: 16 minutes 36 seconds

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Software Leadership Skills for Lean Software Development

Published: March 13, 2018, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds

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Is Your Company A Feature Factory Or A Lean Startup?

Published: March 13, 2018, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds

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Why Do So Many Programmers Lose Hope?

Published: March 6, 2018, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds

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Why Do Programmers Lose Hope For Their Future?

Published: March 6, 2018, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds

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Is Caffeine Making You Too Stressed To Be Agile?

Published: March 4, 2018, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 31 seconds

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Why Do Others Steal The Credit For Your Ideas?

Published: March 3, 2018, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds

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The 5 Biggest Lies Of The Software Industry!

Published: Feb. 28, 2018, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 6 seconds

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An Agile Budget Keeps You From Being A Code Monkey

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 25 seconds

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Should Your Software Team Still Use Planning Poker?

Published: Feb. 25, 2018, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 19 seconds

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Why I Rejected Programming Culture For Weight Loss

Published: Feb. 20, 2018, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 45 seconds

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The Secret of Scrum Nobody Wants To Talk About!

Published: Feb. 19, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds

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HELP! I'm On A Software Project With A Narcissist!

Published: Feb. 18, 2018, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds

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How To Find The Best Software Project For Your Personality

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 29 seconds

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Why Are YOU Making Programming Harder?

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 10 seconds

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End-Of-Life: The Death Of A Software Product

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds

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How Market Fit Changes Software Companies

Published: Feb. 13, 2018, midnight
Duration: 24 minutes 31 seconds

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Is Your Software Company Managed By FEAR?

Published: Feb. 11, 2018, midnight
Duration: 25 minutes 26 seconds

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Software Business Life Cycle - Will Your Company Grow?

Published: Feb. 11, 2018, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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Flow State - Stay In The Zone For Programming

Published: Feb. 10, 2018, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds

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How To Earn Respect On A New Software Project

Published: Feb. 7, 2018, midnight
Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds

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Are You A Perfectionist Programmer?

Published: Feb. 7, 2018, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds

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Technology Addiction - Materialism in Software Development

Published: Feb. 6, 2018, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 49 seconds

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DevOps The New Lie Of The Software Industry?

Published: Feb. 5, 2018, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds

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Pull Your Software Project Out Of A Death Spiral!

Published: Feb. 4, 2018, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds

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Programming Estimation Estimate Software Tasks With Caution

Published: Feb. 1, 2018, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds

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Say NO On A Software Project - So They Will Listen!

Published: Jan. 31, 2018, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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What To Do When Your Software Tasks Will Be Late

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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Democratic Software Architecture - Sharing Technology Decisions

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds

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Software Project Burnout: Is It Them Or You?

Published: Jan. 28, 2018, midnight
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

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Can Imposter Syndrome Help Software Developers Grow?

Published: Jan. 24, 2018, midnight
Duration: 23 minutes 4 seconds

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Your Software Project Is Failing - Now What?

Published: Jan. 23, 2018, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 43 seconds

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Can You Be Agile - Even When Your Company Isn't?

Published: Jan. 23, 2018, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 26 seconds

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5 Signs Your Software Business Is Led By Amateurs!

Published: Nov. 8, 2017, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds

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How To Confront Difficult Software Developers About Their Behavior

Published: Nov. 4, 2017, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 31 seconds

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4 Ways Needing To Be Understood Makes Software Professionals Dislike You

Published: Nov. 2, 2017, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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Is Wanting To Feel Important Hurting Your Software Career?

Published: Oct. 22, 2017, midnight
Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds

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Overcome Attachment: Discover the Mindset for Lean Software Development

Published: Oct. 14, 2017, midnight
Duration: 16 minutes 46 seconds

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How To Build Consensus For Software Decisions

Published: Oct. 6, 2017, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes

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How To Shut Down Your Feature Factory

Published: Sept. 30, 2017, midnight
Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds

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5 Ways Dishonesty HURTS Your Software Development Career!

Published: Aug. 30, 2017, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes

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My Software Development Journey (Part 3)

Published: Aug. 25, 2017, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 46 seconds

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My Software Development Journey (Part 2)

Published: Aug. 24, 2017, midnight
Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds

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My Software Development Journey (Part 1)

Published: Aug. 23, 2017, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes

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How Failure Produces BETTER Software Projects

Published: Aug. 16, 2017, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 48 seconds

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How UNCERTAINTY Impacts Software Development Processes!

Published: Aug. 8, 2017, midnight
Duration: 45 minutes 50 seconds

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What MEN Need To Know About Software Developer BRO CULTURE!

Published: July 29, 2017, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds

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5 Ways To Cope With The ANXIETY Of Software Development!

Published: July 25, 2017, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds

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How To Win Trust For Your Software Development Ideas

Published: July 25, 2017, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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How To Be A Servant Leader On Software Projects

Published: July 24, 2017, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 49 seconds

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Why Software Developers DISAGREE - And What To Do About It!

Published: July 21, 2017, midnight
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds

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The Journey To CROSS FUNCTIONAL Development Teams

Published: July 17, 2017, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes

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Software Developer vs Consultant - What's Better For YOU?

Published: July 16, 2017, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 57 seconds

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Why Software Development Change Initiatives FAIL!

Published: July 14, 2017, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 2 seconds

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5 Software Redesign MISTAKES By Software Companies!

Published: July 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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Evolving Software Architecture To Adapt With Product Growth

Published: July 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds

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5 Ways Pride KILLS A Software Project!

Published: July 9, 2017, midnight
Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds

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How To A/B Software Development To Find What Customers Value

Published: July 7, 2017, midnight
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds

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Continuous Delivery Best Practices For Infrastructure As Code

Published: July 6, 2017, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds

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How to Use Configuration Management For Continuous Delivery Of Software

Published: July 5, 2017, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 33 seconds

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Development Environments - Isolating Customers From Your Changes

Published: July 2, 2017, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 28 seconds

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Continuous Delivery - Are You Missing The Big Picture?

Published: June 30, 2017, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 13 seconds

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Creative Software Development - Explosive Growth By Letting Go

Published: June 28, 2017, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds

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Scrum vs Kanban - How Do They Help You Be More LEAN In 2017?

Published: June 26, 2017, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 36 seconds

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Software Estimation - Trading Perceived Effort For Outcomes

Published: June 25, 2017, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 8 seconds

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Minimum Viable Product - Letting Software Customers Help YOU Profit

Published: June 24, 2017, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 31 seconds

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Agile Project Management - Is It STOPPING You From Being Agile?

Published: June 24, 2017, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds

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Lean Software Development - It's About Uncertainty!

Published: June 21, 2017, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds

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