Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 014 | Paul Rayner - Facilitating Learning and Growth
Paul Rayner talks with Dave Rael about imparting knowledge and wisdom, improving clients rather than just helping, and understanding the domain
Paul Rayner is a seasoned design coach and leadership mentor, helping teams ignite their design skills via DDD and BDD. He gets teams unstuck through intensive coaching workshops and hands-on pair programming, combined with focused one-on-one leadership mentoring. His companyVirtual Genius is a software solutions provider, specializing in custom Ruby applications. Paul actively serves the community: co-authoring the upcoming Addison Wesley book, BDD with Cucumber, teaching classes in BDD and DDD, contributing to OSS, and co-leading the DDD Denver Meetup group.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Paul Rayner
- - Training with Domain Language, Eric Evans's organization
- - Paul's definition of value
- - Skills and leveling up
- - Paul as Jedi Master training Padawans in useful skills
- - The things that "light Paul up"
- - The value of concrete business examples
- - An example of the value of working closely with customers and solving problems
- - Paul's story of failure, priorities and boundaries
- - How Paul stays current with what he needs to know
- - Paul's book recommendation
- - Refactoring - Microdesign as the foundation of all architecture patterns
- - Knowing how to use your tools
- - The things about which Paul likes to geek out other than software
- - Paul's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Paul
- - Farewell
Resources:
Resources:
Paul's Blog
Paul's Business
Paul's upcoming book: The Design of Design
Paul's book recommendation:
Paul's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Listen to your customers - understand the impact you are trying to make
2. Iterating is important, deliver small increments of value
3. Get good at working in teams
