Derek Comartin talks with Dave Rael about understanding business domains, access to domain experts, and finding your voice
Derek Comartin is software developer with over 16 years of experience that span product development, professional services and in-house enterprise development. He's written software for a variety of business domains such as consumer goods, distribution, transportation, manufacturing, and accounting. He is currently Director of Engineering at Full Circle TMS.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Derek Comartin
- - Derek's technology direction and landing in the .NET space
- - Derek's definition of value
- - The things that "light Derek up"
- - Feelings of excitement reminiscent of Derek's early career
- - How Derek got started writing software
- - Web and native desktop
- - Derek's story of failure, the importance of having a voice
- - Derek's greatest success story, understanding the business, making a bold proposal, and delivering
- - How Derek stays current with what he needs to know
- - Names worth following
- - The things that have Derek most excited about his present and future
- - Derek's book recommendation
- - The greatest sources of pain in Derek's life and work, unjust influences on the direction of the software
- - The things about which Derek likes to geek out apart from software
- - Make sure to take time for yourself
- - Derek's prediction for the future of software
- - Derek's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Derek
- - Farewell
Resources:
- Derek's blog
- Udi Dahan
- Greg Young
- Eric Evans - "What I've learned about DDD since the book"
- Bounded Context (Martin Fowler's take)
- Kathleen Dollard
Derek's book recommendation:
Derek's Top 3 Tips for Delivering More Value:
- Ask why
- Contribute to your community
- Mentoring - be a mentor, have a mentor