Reem Altamimi talks with Dave Rael about leading teams, culture, choices, opportunity, and learning human skills
Reem Altamimi is a Software Developer Lead with the Department of Transportation, State of Tennessee. Since she started working for TDOT in 2015, she has been enjoying adopting agile methodologies in software development and in life in general. She loves writing code as it requires logical thinking, creativity and solving problems. Her favorite thing about writing code is finding bugs and fixing them. She always looks for perfection in her code as well as life which can be challenging sometimes. Reem is always been passionate about learning new skills whether they are technical or human. She is a strong believer in helping other people learn and achieve their goals.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Reem Altamimi
- - How Reem got started in software and writing code in constrained circumstances
- - Reem on moving from Iraq to the USA to create a better life for her family
- - Opportunities and choices
- - Reem's passion for learning
- - Becoming a lead developer
- - Support, mentors, and exemplary leadership
- - Reem's story of failure - miscommunication with rectification
- - Reem's approach to learning
- - Reem's book recommendations
- - Reem's interest in Agile
- - Reem's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Reem
Reem's book recommendation:
Reem's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Look at a situation from multiple perspectives
- Think positively - cut the circuit on negativity
- Listen and communicate face-to-face