Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 043 | Greger Wikstrand - Specializing in Generalizing
Guest:
Greger Wikstrand talks with Dave Rael about coaching and teaching, delivering, the value of well-rounded professionals, and the necessity of agreeing on what is of value
Greger Wikstrand has worked as a project manager and software professional for over 10 years. He has worked with Agile Project Management since 2007. He has managed agile projects of various sizes and types. He has introduced agile in organizations and to people. He has coached several individuals, organizations and projects on Agile project management. Greger Wikstrand has a background as both a practioner and a researcher. He makes a living as a consultant based in Malmö (mahl-meh), Sweden.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Greger Wikstrand
- - Greger's definition of value
- - The things that "light Greger up"
- - How Greger got started creating software
- - Greger's story of failure, client organizational incoherence on what they want
- - Greger's greatest success story, an experience of enormous agile success, client buy-in and solid teams
- - How Greger stays current with what she needs to know
- - Greger's book recommendation
- - Views of the future and what it might be like
- - The things that have Greger most excited about his present and future
- - Greger's preferred learning resources
- - The utility and success of Stack Overflow
- - Misuse of gamification
- - The greatest sources of pain in Greger's life and work
- - The things about which Greger likes to geek out apart from software
- - The benefits and difficulties of farming
- - Greger's prediction for the future of software
- - Greger's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Greger
- - Farewell
Resources:
- Greger's website
- Greger on Generalists vs Specialists in Agile
- Charles Stross
- Peter F. Hamliton
- Great North Road - Peter F. Hamliton
- IEEE Computer Society Software Magazine
- Stack Overflow
- The Time-Turner in the Harry Potter Saga
Greger's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Deliver deliverables and not activities
2. Make sure the recipients of your delivery agree on what should be a valuable delivery
3. Make sure you actually deliver to these people
