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Episode 019: It’s Made of People!
01:11 – What it means to be a Senior Engineer When You Don’t Want to Go Into Management
05:07 – Generativity: The difference between your team’s output with you on it and your team’s output without you.
Gregor Hohpe: 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation
13:46 – The Job of An Architect
22:09 – What are the managers doing? “It is too much to ask for your manager to be your career mentor?”
Sam Gerstenzang: The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer
Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al.
Reflections:
Astrid: From Jessica’s perspective, what a software architect actually is supposed to be doing.
Sam: Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al.
Coraline: I’m going to read ^ book.
Jessica: More surprise episodes!
Darin: Think less about me and more about the team around me. And I’m looking for a mentor!
Cheryl: Greater Than Code > Mission Taco
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Special Guests: Cheryl Shaefer and Darin Wilson.