Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 010 | Kevin Krueger - Finding The Root of the Problem
Kevin Krueger talks with Dave Rael about identifying what will really help clients and delivering solutions
Kevin Krueger is Founder and Principal Consultant at SolutionWave, a small software development consulting firm in Longmont, Colorado. Kevin's business experience started in the 9th grade when he and business partner started selling computers in rural North Dakota. A few years after graduating from North Dakota State University in Fargo, Kevin moved to Colorado in 2001. Today he specializes in web and mobile development on the Microsoft platform.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Kevin Krueger
- - Comfort as the enemy of growth
- - Kevin's definition of value
- - The software professional as "solution provider"
- - The things that "light Kevin up"
- - Kevin's story of failure, lessons of the importance of culture
- - Kevin's greatest success story, finding his niche in consulting
- - How Kevin stays current with what he needs to know
- - Kevin's book recommendations
- - The things that have Kevin most excited about his present and future
- - The virtue of diversity of different types of coders
- - The things about which Kevin likes to geek out
- - Being a worker in the domain of your software and/or observing workers
- - Kevin's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Kevin
- - Farewell
Resources:
SolutionWave - Kevin's business websiteDan North on the conflict between quality and emotional attachment - the developer's dilemma - particularly addressed at the 19:04 mark
Kevin's book recommendation:
Kevin's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Get to the root of the problem beneath the surface of a request
2. Address and ship the Minimum Viable Product
3. Don't be afraid to be wrong- "strong opinions weakly held"
