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Lisa Crispin: Agile Testing & Technical Debt
Episode 9
Robby speaks with Lisa Crispin, co-author of Agile Testing and Testing Advocate at Mabl. Lisa speaks about "thinking skills" for developers, why testing professionals should be integrated into dev te…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
Pim Elshoff: Refactoring How Engineers Communicate With Management
Episode 8
Robby speaks with Pim Elshoff, Software Developer at Procurios. Pim explains why developers should improve their communication skills when speaking with management, recalls his biggest mistake as a d…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
Morgan Senkal: Using Epics to Improve Code Quality Within Sprints
Episode 7
Robby speaks with Morgan Senkal, Software Architect at Metal Toad. Morgan recalls a challenging 15-year-old legacy project that was reminiscent of a Stephen King story and explains what to think abou…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
Eileen M. Uchitelle: Upgrading Ruby on Rails At Github And How To Stay Updated
Episode 6
Robby speaks with Eileen M. Uchitelle, Senior Software Engineer at Github and member of the Rails Core Team. You'll hear about Eileen's work upgrading Github from Rails 3.2 to 5.2, how Github priorit…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
Charity Majors: Deploys Are Just The Beginning
Episode 5
Robby speaks with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb about her work as an Infrastructure Engineer, how Honeycomb was created, all about working and testing in production, and why software engineers sho…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
Sahil Lavingia: Pushing Forward Through Technical Debt After a Massive Layoff
Episode 4
Robby speaks with Sahil Lavingia, Founder and CEO of Gumroad. Sahil has been transparent about the challenges of building a company – speaking on VC investments, layoffs, and more. Sahil talks about …
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
Coraline Ada Ehmke: The Role Of Empathy In Engineering Teams
Episode 3
Robby speaks with Coraline Ada Ehmke, Principal Engineer at Stitch Fix and author of The Compassionate Coder. Coraline speaks about the social side of coding and empathy in open source and legacy pro…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
James Smith: What if We Measured Software with a Stability Score?
Episode 2
Robby sits down with James Smith, Co-Founder and CEO at Bugsnag, to discuss how to look at technical debt as a business cost, engineering processes in a startup vs. a stable company, and how the Bugs…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
Anna Filina: How Every Decision Introduces Technical Debt
Episode 1
Robby speaks with Anna Filina, a software consultant at Zenika Montreal who specializes in legacy code. They discuss why engineers don't have to ask permission to write tests, why convincing people t…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago