Olve Maudal speaks with Dave Rael about empowering the best 80% of developers, trust in organizations and interactions, growing better software in large systems and large organizations, and focusing on quality
Olve Maudal works for Cisco Systems where he is involved in developing collaboration solutions and telepresence technology. He loves to write code, but he is just as interested in how software is developed as what it actually does. Main interests are embedded systems, C, C++, Python, TDD, secure coding, software architecture and machine learning. Olve lives just outside of Oslo with wife and two kids - he also enjoys chess, rubik's cube, outdoor activities and reading. He tweets as @olvemaudal once in a while, and sometimes he updates the website olvemaudal.com
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Olve Maudal
- - Olve and chess and the temptation to get consumed with specific interests
- - How Olve got started in software
- - Olve's current role at Cisco and the evolution of a huge codebase with many developers and many and frequent commits
- - Counterintuitive secrets to maintaining software over decades and with large teams
- - Olve's approach to fostering a focus on quality
- - Olve's advice for improving code quality and the quality of an organization
- - Olve's story of failure - Losing interest in an interesting project because of an unsustainable pace
- - Olve's success story - Improving the operation of an organization with positive practices and creating tools where they didn't exist
- - Olve's book recommendations
- - The things about which Olve likes to geek out
- - Olve's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Olve
Resources:
- Olve's Blog
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- Knut Hamsun
- Knut Hamsun Books
- Knut Hamsun Quotes
- Hewlett Packard 29C Programmable Calculator
- Commodore VIC-20
- Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire
- Jon Jagger on Developer On Fire
- Kevlin Henney on Developer On Fire
- James Grenning on Developer On Fire
- Seismic Acquisition
- The Agile Manifesto
- Cruise Control
- Jenkins
- Tinderbox
- The Good Foot Theory (Book in Norwegian)
- A Riveting Conversation In Which Olve Participated - Branching strategies and continuous delivery
Olve's book recommendation:
Olve's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Allow yourself to trust others and make sure to behave in a way that you can be trusted
- Continue to get better at the things at which you are already good and rely on your teammates to compensate for your weaknesses
- Stay close to the money flow to know whether you are succeeding