James Ladd talks with Dave Rael about freedom and purpose, exciting and challenging problem, and the joys of being a programmer and more
James Ladd a software developer with over 26 years of experience. He’s currently doing Ruby development using Agile practices. He wrote Redline Smalltalk http://redline.st.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and James Ladd
- - Redline Smalltalk and intent
- - James's current focus: MyWave
- - The desire of developers: creative and technical freedom; the constraints of business that limit that freedom
- - James's focus on architecture and business, absence of hands-on-keyboard coding, and rewards of his situation
- - The nature of MyWave, the problem it solves, the benefits, and the technical and other challenges associated with it
- - The teams working on MyWave
- - Developer value and team culture
- - How James got started in software, career progression, and current role as culmination of all of it
- - James's satisfaction with his role with MyWave and purpose, freedom, and control
- - Assessing fads
- - James's story of failure - impossible situations, inability to communicate the impossibility of what was desired (despite clearly communicating it)
- - Being committed by someone not committing themselves and making a best effort
- - James's success story - the reward of MyWave - business, technical, scope of the problem; fulfillment
- - How James stays current with what he needs to know
- - James's book recommendations
- - The things about which James likes to geek out
- - Keeping up with James
Resources:
James's book recommendation:
James's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Understand requirements
- Consider the wider impact
- Understand that there are concerns and constraints of the business beyond your immediate vision