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Production Ready

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Production Ready is a podcast that decodes human relationships that drive software businesses. Learn how to debug your office relationships and optimize your career trajectory for performance. Hosted by Glenn Stovall

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Episodes

Hiring and developing others w/ Kate Izell

October 06, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 64.9 MB

Show Links Izell Marketing The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It  The Birkman Method Mike Harrell - Latitude Advisors Transcript Glenn Stovall: [00:00:00] Hey everyone. I'm here with Kate Izell, who runs a remote digital marketing agency here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And we're here today to talk about making the transition from being a solo freelancer to a business owner, running an agency. How are you doing today?  Kate Izell: [0...

Writing your own narrative & using code strategically w/ Tom Critchlow

September 29, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 68.7 MB

Tom Critchlow @tomcritchlow Show Links The Strategic Indepentent  Permissionless Identities (Little Futures article about writing mentioned ~30 seconds in) Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career The Consultant's Grain RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file called "index.php" generating $65,651 this month. No frameworks. No libraries (except jQuery) Squad Wealth The Economic Power of Real-time Chat Spaces Fourth-Wave Consulting The Yak Collective ...

Content creation & strategy w/ Stephanie Morillo

September 22, 2020 10:00 - 36 minutes - 56.4 MB

Stephanie Morillo @radiomorillo More of Stephanie's work:  The Developer's Guide to Content Creation The Developer's Guide to Book Publishing The Pocket Technical Writing List (Includes style guides)  Links from the show:  Digital Ocean blog Azure Devops Microsoft Onenote Sales Safari in Action The War of Art What is Code? - Paul Ford Stacking The Bricks - Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman MailChimp Content Style Guide Transcript Glenn Stovall: [00:00:00] hey everyone. I'm her...

Inhumane software is causing a physician shortage w/ Lauren O'Meara

September 15, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 40.7 MB

Episode Links Laura's company: Plum Flower Software DocLauncher Calerity The 9 Ways to Make Your SaaS Customers Hate You, Ranked HotJar FullStory Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy (note: don't be that guy) 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design Tech Humanist: How You Can Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans by Kate O' Neil Center for Humane Technology Transcription Glenn Stovall: [00:00:00] hey everyone. I'm here with Lauren O'Meara a...

Debunking Recruiter Myths - AMA with Taylor Desseyn

September 08, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 55.6 MB

Connect with Taylor Desseyn on LinkedIn. He'd appreciate it. Follow @tdesseyn on Twitter, and join Taylor's text community at: 615-235-5650 Transcript Glenn Stovall: [00:00:00] .Hey everyone. I'm here with, Taylor, Dustin. He's a developer recruiter advocate for Vaco technologies. What's going to be the very first AMA episode of production. Ready? How are you doing today? Taylor?  Taylor Desseyn: [00:00:10] Pretty good, man. Hey, thanks for having me super stoked. Ready for some...

Working at big vs. small companies & finding your tribe w/ Bobby Burden

September 01, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 46.7 MB

Glenn Stovall: [00:00:00] hey everyone. I'm here with Bobby Burden. Who's a software engineer at ups and a board member of Devanooga the local dev meet up here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. How you doing today, Bobby?  Bobby Burden: [00:00:09] I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.  Glenn Stovall: [00:00:10] Yeah. Thanks. Thanks for coming on. So me and Bobby were talking to the devotee to Slack a bit about, the differences between working at smaller and larger companies and pros and...

The 4 Fundamentals of Sales w/ Liston Witherill

August 25, 2020 10:00 - 35 minutes - 59.3 MB

Liston Witherill SellDontServe.com Links from the show 4 Sales Fundamentals: Kickstart Your Selling In a Hurry The Transparency Sale: How Unexpected Honesty and Understanding the Buying Brain Can Transform Your Results  The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in nar...

How writing code is hindering your career w/ Erik Dietrich

August 18, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 49.4 MB

Erik's content agency: Hit Subscribe The Gervais Principle, part I, which includes an image of the MacLeod corporate hierarchy. The Dilbert Principle The Peter Principle How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner The Beggar CEO and Sucker Culture Check out more of Erik's writing at his site Daedtech (one of my favorite tech blogs) and in his book, Developer Hegemony.

The Secret Skills of Productive Programmers w/ Itamar Turner-Truaring

August 11, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst See more of Itamar's work at: CodeWithoutRules.com PythonSpeed.com

Cultivating expertise by writing daily w/ Philip Morgan

August 04, 2020 01:01 - 43 minutes - 40.8 MB

Philip Morgan @Philip_Morgan Links From The Show Philip Morgan - Why write daily? Philip Morgan - Shortcomings of daily publication? Tom Critchlow - The Strategic Independent Ben Settle's Email List Without Fail - Nick Kroll gets out of character IA Writer Ulysses App Aqua Notes Waterproof Notepad Interesting in working with Philip? Check out his Expertise Incubator for solo technical consultants.

[FIXED] Stop, collaborate, get paid - Fearless Salary Negotiation w/ Josh Doody

July 28, 2020 14:13 - 41 minutes - 44.5 MB

Fixed version of the previous episode. Sorry about the confusion @JoshDoody of Fearless Salary Negotiation Key Takeaways:  How to know what you're worth; determining your market value -  4:20  How to increase what you're worth: 7:40 How has COVID-19 affected job and salary opportunities: 10:45 Look for opportunities where you can deliver value to companies - 13:15 Can negotiation cost you a job offer? - 15:00 You should feel like you are collaborating with the person who mad...

Stop, collaborate, get paid - Fearless Salary Negotiation w/ Josh Doody

July 28, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 44.5 MB

IMPORTANT NOTE: An earlier version of the audio file was bugged, if you are experiencing issues please delete the episode and re-download. @JoshDoody of Fearless Salary Negotiation Key Takeaways:  How to know what you're worth; determining your market value -  4:20  How to increase what you're worth: 7:40 How has COVID-19 affected job and salary opportunities: 10:45 Look for opportunities where you can deliver value to companies - 13:15 Can negotiation cost you a job offer? -...

Positioning yourself as a strategist w/ Austin L. Church

July 14, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 51.4 MB

Austin L. Church @AustinLChurch  Austin L. Church is a writer and brand strategist. He and his wife live with their three professional mistake makers in Knoxville, Tennessee. After getting laid off during the recession back in 2009, Austin accidentally started his own freelance writing business, which eventually led him to selling an array of creative services, then developing iOS apps, then co-founding a tech startup, and then starting a branding and marketing studio called Baler...

Marketing yourself & your products by learning in public w/ Shawn Wang

July 07, 2020 10:00 - 35 minutes - 39.9 MB

Shawn Wang / https://www.swyx.io/ / @swyx Key Takeaways :  Take two weeks, put something out there, and see how making your first dollar online changes your life - 2:00 Shawn explains how he went from idea to pre-selling the book. - 2:45 Shawn talks about open sourcing his knowledge with his launch cheat sheet - 6:00 Shawn made it to #5 on Hacker News, before his post was removed due to HN's "unwritten rules" - 8:15 How can developers get started marketing? 12:45 "It's not so...

The right & wrong ways to pitch ideas at work w/ Jason Swett

June 30, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 27.9 MB

Jason Swett Rails with Jason Podcast @JasonSwett Highlights When ideas don't get accepted, it isn't always based on merit.  - 1:45 Sometimes you shouldn't pitch an idea, because the person on the other side isn't receptive - 4:15 "We have more stuff to do than time to do it, the story of all software development everywhere" - 6:45 "The only way to get someone to do something is to make them want to do it" - 10:15 "If I have to sell on them if there is a problem at all, how a...

Shipping dozens of websites w/ Ryan Maynard

June 23, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 37.2 MB

Ryan Maynard ryanmaynard.co @ryanmaynard00 Highlights If you have an idea, act on it. It's like exercising a muscle - 4:00 when something is an idea, it's perfect. You try to protect it by not executing on it. - 5:30 Why it's easier to fix problems after building something, not before - 8:15 Ryan builds, then sells, a livestock calculator - 11:15 Ryan writes letters to baseball players - 14:45 Exploring the big world of small software companies - 15:45 "reach out to smarte...

How software can be racist (and what you can do to stop it.)

June 16, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 11.8 MB

You can also read and share this essay in text form: https://glennstovall.com/how-software-can-be-racist/ referenced this episode:  White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - by Robin J. DiAngelo  Google ‘fixed’ its racist algorithm by removing gorillas from its image-labeling tech Joy Buolamwini - How I'm fighting bias in algorithms Face Recognition Performance: Role of Demographic Information Why Amazon’s Automated Hiring Tool Discriminated Aga...

Macchiato Moments - how miscommunication dooms software projects w/ Morgan Lopes

June 09, 2020 10:00 - 35 minutes - 36.8 MB

Morgan Lopes: https://morganjlopes.com @morganjlopes Polar Notion: https://www.polarnotion.com/ New Story: https://newstorycharity.org/ Key Takeaways one of the first communication challenges is agreeing on definitions of terms - 1:30 expectation - communication = frustration -4:15 asking 'when would you need this' to illuminate the true problems behind feature requests - 6: 30 by giving problems instead of solutions, you invite people into the conversation - 10:10 defining...

Writing code & wrangling cats - from developer to manager and back w/ Marilyn Cole

June 09, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB

Marilyn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mmmarilyn Seller Labs Engineering Blog: https://engineering.sellerlabs.com/ Highlights:  People think if you don't have structure, then you don't have politics. When in fact, when you don't have structure, there's more political wrangling that happens because it's all implicit. - 3:37 Being a manager makes you more introspective. - 8:45 on blameless retrospectives: "assume everyone made the best decision they could with what they knew at t...

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May 28, 2020 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.64 MB

Production Ready is a look at the human side of software development, Starting June 2, 2020.

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