Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 105 | Gerald Weinberg - Quality
Gerald M. Weinberg (Jerry) has always been interested in helping smart people be happy and productive. To that end, he has published books on human behavior, including Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Perfect Software and Other Fallacies, and the 4-volume General Systems Series. He has also written several books on teamwork and leadership including Becoming a Technical Leader, Agile Impressions, Do You Want to Be a (better) Manager, The Secrets of Consulting, More Secrets of Consulting, and the multi-volume Quality Software series. He incorporates his knowledge of science, engineering, and human behavior into all of writing and consulting work (with writers, hi-tech researchers, and software engineers). He writes novels about such people—all about how his brilliant protagonists produce quality work and learn to be happy.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jerry Weinberg
- - Teaching and learning and the futility of lecturing
- - Women of power
- - Using fiction to help people learn from examples and storytelling
- - Jerry's definition of value
- - The things that "light Jerry up"
- - A story of being asked to fix a broken organization and process in a day and humble, actful response
- - Faced with a request for a bid that was really a solution that wouldn't work and Jerry's response
- - Stories of experiencing and organization's views on identifying the best people
- - The Chief Programmer Team craze
- - Growing as a team member, learning from the team, and internalizing team lessons, told as a story
- - Jerry's vegan daughter, courage in convictions, and examples in learning and mutual benefit
- - Jerry on becoming a writer and a great story of finding better ways to teach
- - The importance of the whole person and not just some role
- - Jerry's book recommendations
- - Jerry's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - "Selling" the concept of what you are creating and selling the result
- - Keeping up with Jerry
Resources:
Jerry's book recommendation:
Jerry's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Operate from your center - Make sure what you're delivering is not about you (be like a window through which you can see, not a church window)
- Know your customer - know to whom you are delivering
- Delivering something about which you care
