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The People Behind Your Favorite Apps is a podcast for software engineers, software testers, and everyone tasked with bringing memorable apps to market. Each episode will feature conversations with industry...
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The People Behind Your Favorite Apps is a podcast for software engineers, software testers, and everyone tasked with bringing memorable apps to market. Each episode will feature conversations with industry experts who’ve faced—and solved—complex software challenges and want to share their stories. If you’re seeking solutions to the complexities faced within software and testing, you’ve come to the right place.
Welcome to The People Behind Your Favorite Apps!
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Welcome to The People Behind Your Favorite Apps!
The People Behind Your Favorite Apps
The People Behind Your Favorite Apps
Making Quality Cool Again
12 JAN 2023 · The responsibility of quality assurance falls on the whole organization, not just the developers and/or testers. Our guest today joins us to share her thoughts on what it will take to make quality cool again.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmahomed/ is a technology executive at https://bahwancybertek.com/home/, a global provider of digital transformation solutions in Predictive Analytics, Digital Experience, and Digital Supply Chain Management. In this episode, Raisa discusses the state of software quality testing and how organizations can bring back excitement to quality.
Join us as we discuss:
- How Raisa feels about the state of software quality testing
- The importance of quality assurance in agile development
- Effective ways to combat the assumptions of what quality is
- Next steps that people can take to start moving towards the mindset of making quality cool
Protecting Our Oceans With Data: Part II
13 DEC 2022 · Over 300,000 whales, dolphins and sea turtles are killed annually due to human action. Should these keystone species go extinct, it would cause cascading ecological collapse, drastically impacting our ability to fish and support the people who rely on the ocean for food.
Sam Malagon, CEO & CTO of Navfeas, and his team have set out to address this problem with Dynamic Ocean Management through spatial planning software and mathematical modeling, which can equip people to not just mitigate bycatch but to do avoidance.
Join us as we discuss:
The specific challenges that Navfeas is trying to solve
How data management plays a role in protecting our oceans keystone species
The gap between information about our ecosystems and the need to measure their impact
What’s in store for the broader tech sector in this space
Protecting Our Oceans With Data: Part I
13 DEC 2022 · Over 300,000 whales, dolphins and sea turtles are killed annually due to human action. Should these keystone species go extinct, it would cause cascading ecological collapse, drastically impacting our ability to fish and support the people who rely on the ocean for food.
Sam Malagon, CEO & CTO of Navfeas, and his team have set out to address this problem with Dynamic Ocean Management through spatial planning software and mathematical modeling, which can equip people to not just mitigate bycatch but to do avoidance.
Join us as we discuss:
The specific challenges that Navfeas is trying to solve
How data management plays a role in protecting our oceans keystone species
The gap between information about our ecosystems and the need to measure their impact
What’s in store for the broader tech sector in this space
How Cera Is Transforming Healthcare With Technology
13 SEP 2022 · In some situations, testing for microservices can be tricky and complicated. Contract testing offers a way to make testing easy for microservices.
Lewis Prescott, QA Lead at Cera, and his team are creating new ways to bring technology into homecare. Cera is transforming the healthcare industry by providing digital first healthcare at home.
Join us as we discuss:
How contract testing works.
How Cera is solving real world problems in homecare.
How Lewis and his team are improving how users give feedback and what they are doing in response.
Building Online Collaboration through APIs
29 JUN 2022 · Bringing humanity into API design is vital for the ongoing development, collaboration, and empowerment of developer teams.
Lorinda Brandon, VP of Engineering at BetterCloud, and her team are developing innovative new ways to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications across the digital workplace.
Join us as we discuss:
Setting API Standards
Developing Engineering Principles
User-Centered API
Open Doors For Open Source
15 JUN 2022 · When creating space for engagement within open source software (OSS), is it as welcoming as it could be?
Often, people from various non-technical backgrounds may not feel like they have much to contribute to OSS communities. So, even when those people spot potential areas of improvement, a host of problems might prevent them from sharing their observations and ideas. Where should those suggestions be made? What type of feedback should they expect to receive? Are there mentoring/learning/collaboration opportunities to meet other contributors?
Listen as Alexandra McDougall, Sr. RFP Specialist at SmartBear, and Yousaf Nabi, Developer Advocate at SmartBear share their perspectives on how to make feedback more inclusive and welcoming.
Join us as we discuss:
What makes an OSS community open and inclusive
The importance of “outside” voices software
Collaborating on elaborate issues
How to Create a Culture of Connection
25 MAY 2022 · There’s no question that automation has been beneficial to testers, developers, and the entire software development lifecycle. But what context is being applied when deciding what to automate today, what to automate on a later date, and what to, perhaps, not automate at all?
In Part Two of our conversation with Vernon Richards, Quality Coach and Founder of Abode of Quality, Vernon shares these questions and others that he asks the teams he’s worked with. Vernon and our hosts continue their discussion around the need for honest conversations around software quality and how to convince leadership of its importance.
Join us as we discuss:
The debate around “100% automation”
Advice around scaling necessary collaboration between developers, testers, and the business
How coaching must eventually step out of the way, and let teams get to work
Check out these resources mentioned during the episode:
https://www.vernonrichards.com/
https://typeshare.co/vernonrichards
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Coaching for Quality: How to Inflict Help & Change Perspective
11 MAY 2022 · When coaching software teams, it’s easy to bark orders and tell people what they’re doing wrong.
But if you want to foster creativity and positive output, try asking: What problem are you trying to solve?
People are incredibly talented; what they often lack is perspective.
A lesson Vernon Richards, Quality Coach and Founder of Abode of Quality, is here to teach alongside conversation on the proper time to start looking for quality in the software development life cycle.
Join us as we discuss:
The expectations of those who “own” software quality
The (misinformed) idea that testing is a bottleneck
Collaboration challenges and opportunities between siloed teams
To make sure you never miss an episode of The People Behind Your Favorite Apps podcast, subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Listening on a desktop & can’t see the links? Just search for The People Behind Your Favorite Apps in your favorite podcast player.
Open Source vs. Open Company: Collaboration at Scale in the Cloud
27 APR 2022 · Open source and commercial software solutions both offer their own unique benefits—and challenges—to organizations looking for powerful technologies to accelerate innovation. How do the organizations who build both open source and commercial solutions prioritize features, allocate resources, collaborate on a global scale, and recognize the important contributions made by their communities every day?
We speak with Frank Karlitschek, Founder and CEO at Nextcloud GmbH, about how his company is delivering that much needed alternative.
Join us as we discuss:
An overview of Nextcloud GmbH
Competing with Tech Giants
Data Privacy in the Cloud
What it Means to Be an Open Company
What’s next for Frank and NextCloud in the future
To make sure you never miss an episode of The People Behind Your Favorite Apps podcast, subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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The People Behind the Process: Software’s Greatest Asset
31 MAR 2022 · This podcast shines the spotlight on the developers, testers, and others who work tirelessly to bring amazing technologies to market. How they come up with solutions to big challenges, collaborate at scale, and deal with high-pressure deadlines and increased expectations from the business and customers alike.
The People Behind Your Favorite Apps is a podcast for software engineers, software testers, and everyone tasked with bringing memorable apps to market. Each episode will feature conversations with industry...
show more
The People Behind Your Favorite Apps is a podcast for software engineers, software testers, and everyone tasked with bringing memorable apps to market. Each episode will feature conversations with industry experts who’ve faced—and solved—complex software challenges and want to share their stories. If you’re seeking solutions to the complexities faced within software and testing, you’ve come to the right place.
Welcome to The People Behind Your Favorite Apps!
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Welcome to The People Behind Your Favorite Apps!
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