Software Engineering, Big Tech, and Agile - Interview With Jade Wilson
Listen now
Description
I was joined by Jade Wilson in this video interview! Jade is not only a senior software engineer at Microsoft, but a successful content creator. When we got to talking, it was really cool to hear that we have very different experiences with how our teams approach building software: - My teams go through a pseudo-agile / waterfall hybrid (i.e. we try to be agile but commitments are done on larger horizons) - Jade gets to work DIRECTLY with customers quite regularly A huge takeaway from Jade in this video was that it's *NOT* just about picking Scrum or Kanban... The entire point is to find things that work well for your team. Copy+pasting some process and blindly following it without adapting things is probably not going to be ideal. Thanks for the awesome chat, Jade! ---- You can get in touch with Jade: - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jade-codes/ - Newsletter: https://jadecodes.substack.com - Jade Codes YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jade-codes ---- 🔑 Membership & Subscriptions: - 📨 ⁠Weekly Newsletter⁠ - 🏘️ ⁠Private Discord Community⁠ - 📽️ ⁠YouTube Membership⁠ 🧠 Courses: - ⁠All Courses⁠ - ⁠Getting Started with C#⁠ - ⁠Deep Dive C#⁠ - ⁠Zero to Hero C# Bundle⁠ - ⁠Refactoring For C# Devs⁠ - ⁠[FREE] Intro to Software Development⁠ 🗣️ Social Media & Links: - ⁠All My Links⁠ - ⁠Blog⁠ - ⁠TikTok⁠ - ⁠LinkedIn⁠ - ⁠Threads⁠ - ⁠Twitter⁠ - ⁠Facebook⁠ - ⁠Instagram⁠ - ⁠GitHub⁠ - ⁠Twitch⁠ - ⁠YouTube
More Episodes
What's one sure-fire recipe for disaster when it comes to coaching? Not being coachable. This could come from a lack of self-awareness or not being willing to be coached -- but if you're not ready for it, it's going to feel like friction. In my conversation with Noah Cantor, we walked...
Published 10/08/24
Published 10/08/24