Ep. 11: Humans as Value Creators - Unlocking your potential and building trust, clarity and empowerment with Jeff Doolittle
A Software Architect’s role is to contain complexity and an Engineer’s role is to manage optionality, but what is a Product Owner’s role? To perform at your best you must understand your value creation responsibilities. In this episode we’ll explore the primary responsibilities of key roles in software development, the three crucial values that provide significant boosts in morale and productivity, the meaning of technical empathy, foundational principles of leadership and more.
On today’s episode I am joined by Jeff Doolittle, a Software Architect who has designed software systems for over 25 years. Jeff is a transformational leader providing developer leadership and mentorship to software professionals. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, and a Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership. As co-founder and CTO first of a boutique software consultancy, then as CTO in a SaaS start-up serving the Agriculture industry, he has gained deep and broad industry experience. In his free time he plays guitar and spends time with his family. Jeff’s ongoing mission is to channel his expertise, experience and energy toward his driving passion: to help make good software professionals great!
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Show notes and helpful resources:
- The Software Crisis - Edward Dijkstra
- Conway’s Law: Organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure
- Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L. Parnas - including the topic of Information Hiding
- Righting Software - Juval Löwy
- John Ousterthout - A Philosophy of Software Design
- Software Engineering Radio Podcast
- Thinking in systems by Donella H. Meadows
- Jeff’s Tao of Software Architecture: An Introduction Article
- Jeff’s Software Leadership Distilled Article
- Jeff’ Leadership Style Matrix Article - Discussing Authoritarian, Familial, Managerial, and Transformational leadership styles through the lens of Empowerment and Clarity
- Mermaid.js, GraphVis, PlantUML - Tools to build documentation
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Building something cool or solving interesting problems? Want to be on this show? Send me an email at jointhepodcast@unfilteredbuild.com
Podcast produced by Unfiltered Build - dream.design.develop.
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