In Episode 004: “Working in a Product Development Team” with Jenny Farver, we spoke with Jenny Farver about product development, including the various roles that you find in a product development team. Jenny herself has been the CTO of several

Episode 004: “Working in a Product Development Team” with Jenny Farver

Aug 27th, 2020 21m 22s

More often than not, software development projects are actually product development projects. The goal is to develop a product that will actually be used, and where our users will have specific needs. The team that develops that product will in

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Extras 003.2: "Early career lessons"

Jun 22nd, 2020 5m 33s

In this bonus content from Episode 003: "The Business of Software Development" with Q McCallum, Q shares some of the lessons he learned early in his career and, indeed, how his early years in tech shaped many aspects of his career later on.

Episode 003: "The Business of Software Development" with Q McCallum

Jun 22nd, 2020 24m 46s

In this episode, we will be discussing the business of software development. Writing software doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it often happens in the context of a business, and it can be useful to understand exactly where software fits in a busines

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Extras 003.1: "Do you need a CS degree to succeed in tech?"

Jun 22nd, 2020 8m 29s

In this bonus content from Episode 003: "The Business of Software Development" with Q McCallum, Q tells us about what he did (and didn't) learn in college, and whether you necessarily need a Computer Science degree to succeed in the tech indust

Episode 002: "Giving and Receiving Feedback" with Chelsea Troy

May 11th, 2020 21m

In this episode, I sit down with Chelsea Troy, a Chicago-based software engineer, to talk about giving and receiving feedback, something you have to do quite often when working on software, but which you don’t always get to do as a student. Bes

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Extras 001.1: "Working in Teams... Remotely"

Apr 24th, 2020 8m 47s

In this bonus content from Episode 001: "Working in Teams" with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben and Fitz tell us about the challenges of working remotely in a software team, especially in the context of a global crisis that is fo

Episode 001: "Working in Teams" with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick

Apr 23rd, 2020 29m 16s

Software development is a team sport and, for this inaugural episode of "Conversations in Software Development", we are very lucky to have a conversation on this subject with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian "Fitz" Fitzpatrick.Besides being accomp

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