Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 130 | Jeff Dalton - Critically Thinking
Guest:
Jeff Dalton talks with Dave Rael about enterprise architecture, thinking through consequences of choices, and the joy of delivering
Jeff is an Enterprise Architect working in the Automotive Industry. Jeff has over 25 years experience working with business solutions in sales, product development, business intelligence and communication domains. When not herding cats at his day job, Jeff enjoys reading, good documentaries, writing software and walking with his Corgi. On his days off Jeff is probably somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jeff Dalton
- - Jeff's role as enterprise architect
- - Jeff's definition of value
- - The relevance of architecture in today's world
- - The nature of working in the automotive industry
- - The things that "light Jeff up"
- - Jeff's business focus
- - Jeff's early software development experiences
- - Jeff and family and football
- - Jeff's story of failure - underestimating working with an unproven product and dismissing the intuition saying it was not going to work
- - Changing domains to recover from frustration and burnout
- - Jeff's success story - quick progress, accomplishment, delivery
- - Jeff's thoughts on having "made it"
- - How Jeff stays current with what he needs to know
- - Jeff's book recommendations
- - The things that have Jeff most excited
- - Jeff's sources of pain and suffering
- - The things about which Jeff likes to geek out
- - Jeff's prediction for the future of software
- - Jeff's to p3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jeff
Resources:
Jeff's book recommendation:
Jeff's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Focus by limiting what you are doing at a given time, especially using Personal Kanban
- Keep an open mind
- Thinking critically and maintain curiosity
