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Episode 89
Founder of Parallel Drive & Author of 'How To Build A High Velocity Development Team'
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- Kevin Garber - CEO & Co-founder - ManageFlitter
Guest Interview - repeat from September 2015:
- Eric Elliott, Founder of Parallel Drive and Author of 'How To Build A High Velocity Development Team'.
Some of the topics that we cover in our chat with Eric Elliott include:
- How developers think and why they avoid distraction.
- The importance of collaboration amongst developers and why asynchronous communication channels are preferable.
- Knowing the basics of many languages vs. being an expert at one language.
- Supply and demand for developers in the USA.
- The current state of programming education and why it needs to change.
- The benefits of remote work and why some developers prefer it.
- The best way to measure a developers productivity (Hint: Not by counting tickets!)
- Recognising senior developers as mentors.
- The value junior developers can bring to a team.
- The movie: Programming Literacy
This interview was originally broadcast on the It's a Monkey Podcast - Episode 63 - Sept 2015.
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