DevDiscuss
DevDiscuss
S2:E1 - How to Build Good Habits and be More Productive
In this episode, we chat with Neal Ford, software architect at ThoughtWorks, and author of The Productive Programmer, about how to build better habits and different tools and resources that can boost your productivity.
Show Notes
- Fastly (sponsor)
- Heroku (sponsor)
- Triplebyte (sponsor)
- SmallStep (sponsor)
- Slack
- Pomodoro Technique
- Magnet
- ThoughtWorks
- The Productive Programmer
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture
- No Fluff Just Stuff
- Integrated development environment (IDE)
- TextExpander
- IntelliJ
- KeyCastr
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- TextMate
- Sublime Text
- Atom
- GNU Emacs
- vi
Neal Ford
Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals, who thinks disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm.
It's a little nicer to listen to this episode, after some time to heal. A number of years ago, I worked for a LARGE company that demanded that our team use every single practice in The Agile Methodology, and that we had to be "AGILE" in a ruthlessly waterfall corporation. They actually hired Thoughtworks to teach us Agile over the course of several days, and it wasn't until the end that the devs explained the impossible situations we were put in (the PMs weren't allowed to confirm/deny). So, the last half-day of training, Thoughtworks tried a brainstorming session with the devs to see how we could do...anything in an agile way with what the company was demanding of us.
So true Neal, really most developers have a lot of distractions pulling you from the flow state, we got (social media, notification pop ups, even the environment plays a role too). Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful knowledge.
Thanks a lot Neal for sharing your views. I really agree that email and chat application notifications are pulling developers from the flow state.
Awesome
Thank you for this episode! It will help me a lot!
This episode is exactly what I was looking for to set some goals in my career.