Gerald M. Weinberg (Jerry) has always been interested in helping smart people be happy and productive. To that end, he has published books on human behavior, including Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Perfect Software and Other Fallacies, and the 4-volume General Systems Series. He has also written several books on teamwork and leadership including Becoming a Technical Leader, Agile Impressions, Do You Want to Be a (better) Manager, The Secrets of Consulting, More Secrets of Consulting, and the multi-volume Quality Software series. He incorporates his knowledge of science, engineering, and human behavior into all of writing and consulting work (with writers, hi-tech researchers, and software engineers). He writes novels about such people—all about how his brilliant protagonists produce quality work and learn to be happy.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jerry Weinberg
- - Teaching and learning and the futility of lecturing
- - Women of power
- - Using fiction to help people learn from examples and storytelling
- - Jerry's definition of value
- - The things that "light Jerry up"
- - A story of being asked to fix a broken organization and process in a day and humble, actful response
- - Faced with a request for a bid that was really a solution that wouldn't work and Jerry's response
- - Stories of experiencing and organization's views on identifying the best people
- - The Chief Programmer Team craze
- - Growing as a team member, learning from the team, and internalizing team lessons, told as a story
- - Jerry's vegan daughter, courage in convictions, and examples in learning and mutual benefit
- - Jerry on becoming a writer and a great story of finding better ways to teach
- - The importance of the whole person and not just some role
- - Jerry's book recommendations
- - Jerry's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - "Selling" the concept of what you are creating and selling the result
- - Keeping up with Jerry
Resources:
Jerry's book recommendation:
Jerry's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Operate from your center - Make sure what you're delivering is not about you (be like a window through which you can see, not a church window)
- Know your customer - know to whom you are delivering
- Delivering something about which you care