EP 47 · 45 min · 14 October 2015
Amy Palamountain - Enhancing Communication
Amy Palamountain talks with Dave Rael about listening and understanding, delivering enhanced communication, and exciting big changes
Amy Palamountain is from New Zealand and really likes programming, skiing and is a bit of a Morrissey fan. She works at GitHub building GitHub Desktop, so day to day she writes a ton of C#. She has a background in genetics, high performance computing, Web API design, and JavaScript client side architectures. These days she finds herself focusing on what it means to build a slick UI using reactive extensions.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Amy Palamountain
- - The draw of genetics and relationship with software
- - How Amy started speaking and working at GitHub
- - Amy's definition of value
- - Amy's story of failure, customer communication
- - Any's greatest success story, delivering GitHub Desktop and learning the value it created
- - Git and GitHub utility for non-coders
- - How Amy stays current with what she needs to know
- - The differences of the many communications media and comfort with putting ourselves out there
- - Amy's book recommendation
- - The things that have Amy most excited about her present and future
- - The greatest sources of pain in Amy's life and work
- - The things about which Amy likes to geek out other than software
- - Amy's prediction for the future of software
- - Amy's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Amy
- - Farewell
Resources:
Amy's book recommendation:
Amy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Try to listen from the perspective of the speaker
- Participate in code review and volunteer to do so
- Talk to your customers and really listen