Celebrating success it great, however, I’ve spent over 10 years leading teams of developers and the most common challenge that I’ve come across is imposter syndrome, basically the certainty that you’re a terrible developers and everyone else around you is considerably smatter and better than you. The fear, that you will never be at the same level as the infallible senior with their six sense in predicting what’s going to happen before it happens. The legendary developers who code their projects with all the safeguards and protection that stop their applications from exploding in their face. However , the main reason this god like creature developed this six sense, it because they are, or at least have been, a shoddy developer. They’ve made the mistakes they know how to avoid, they predict them because they remember the pain, and they don’t want to repeat it. If they had never failed, never messed up, never deleted a production database, never pushed a var_dump or a console.log to production, never taken a critical website offline, never come back to work after the Christmas holiday to find and entire code base missing, only to have a hazy recall of coming back to the office a little tipsy after the Christmas party and doing some ‘house keeping’ on the staging server… then realise that was the production server! If they had never failed they would have never learnt. These failures are something we should celebrate and share. So in each episode of this podcast we will interview a software developers and discuss their largest career failures, and discuss what they have learnt from it.