Episodes

Viktor Farcic - Viktor is the author of the Leanpub book Crossplane: The Cloud Native Control Plane. In this interview, Viktor talks about what he’s been up to since his first appearance on the podcast, and his latest book, on Crossplane, explaining how using the service you create, for people in your company, a platform that would provide them with the same experience they have when working with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or any other public Cloud provider.

Marc Bless - Marc is co-author of the Leanpub book Agile Games and Simulations: Field-tested games for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. In this interview, Marc talks about his background and career, his book, the nature and power of Agile games and simulations for improving team productivity, and his experience as a co-author.

Paul Hammant and Luc Courage - Paul and Luc are the authors of the Leanpub book Value Stream Mapping for Software Delivery Teams. In this interview, Paul and Luc talks about their backgrounds and careers, how they decided to collaborate on a book together, the history of manufacturing and the development of Value Stream Mapping, their book, and their writing process.

Joaquim Torres - Joca is the author of the Leanpub book Digital Transformation and Product Culture: How to put technology at the center of your company’s strategy. In this interview, Joca talks about his background and career, managing digital transformations in different industries, including internet services, real estate, and more, as well as his book, Digital Transformation and Product Culture.

Helene Gidley - Helene is the author of the Leanpub book The Art of Agile Living: A Simple And Powerful Approach To Tame Your Overwhelm. In this interview, Helene talks about her background and career, how she gained expertise in Agile and how you can apply it to your day-to-day life to become more productive, her book, and her experience as an author.

Wim Deblauwe - Wim is the author of the Leanpub book Modern frontends with htmx: Use htmx with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf to build dynamic and interactive web applications. In this interview, Wim talks about his background and career, his book, the revolutionary promise of htmx, a technology that redefines frontend development, and his experience as an author.

Barret Nobel and Jake Montalbano - Barret and Jake are the authors of the Leanpub book The DadFit Dynasty Manual: Daily Modern Strategies. In this interview, Barret and Jake talk about their backgrounds, how they approach being fit dads, the challenges that come with fatherhood and marriage, and how they’re writing a book together to reach more people with their ideas.

Luca Berton - Luca is the author of the Leanpub book Ansible Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Unleashing the Power of Ansible via Best Practices, Troubleshooting, and Linting Rules. In this interview, Luca talks about his background and career, Ansible and automation and open source software, and his experience as a content creator.

Dave Leeds - Dave is the author of the Leanpub book Kotlin: An Illustrated Guide. In this interview, Dave talks about his background and career, and how to write a great programming book.

Daniel Vacanti - Daniel is the author of the Leanpub book Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II: Advanced Topics in Predictability. In this interview, Daniel talks about his book, and how to take action on deliberate analysis of data.

Gregor Hohpe - Gregor is the author of the Leanpub book Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization. In this interview, Gregor talks about his new bestselling book, and what he’s been up to since he was last on the podcast.

Christian Hofstetter - Christian is the author of the Leanpub book Playbook Navigating Team Toxins. In this interview, Christian talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.

Jeff Sutherland - Jeff is the author of the Leanpub book First Principles in Scrum: Teams That Finish Early Accelerate Faster. In this interview, Jeff talks about his fascinating professional background and career, the origins of both the Scrum and Agile frameworks, and his work as the author of a number of influential books.

Prateek Singh - Prateek is the author of the Leanpub book Scaling Simplified: A Practitioner’s Guide to Scaling Flow. In this interview, Prateek talks about his background and career, Agile and flow, his book, as his work as an author.

Edward Abramowich - Edward is the author of the Leanpub book Agile Hardware in Action: A Practical Guide to Building Products for the Fast-paced World. In this interview, Edward talks about his background, moving to Japan from Australia after university, his fascinating career tackling big problems for huge industrial projects, Lean and Agile and manufacturing, and about his experience writing an in-progress book.

Neil Studd - Neil is the author of the Leanpub book Finding Mojovation: How to create contentment in your work and personal life. In this interview, Neil talks about his background and career, studying journalism and making his way into software testing, and his experience writing a book.

Mark Graban - Mark is the author of the Leanpub book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. In this interview, Mark talks about what he’s been up to since he was last on the podcast, his new book on how to set up an organizational culture that can get value from the inevitable mistakes people make, and his experience publishing his latest book.

Rafael Chinelato del Nero - Rafael is the author of the Leanpub book Java Interview Challenger: Ace Java Interviews by Mastering Fundamentals of Data Structures and Algorithms. In this interview, Rafael talks about his background and career, moving to a new country, creating content and becoming a Java Champion.

Alex Pukinskis - Alex is the author of the Leanpub book The Art of Connected Facilitation: Stop Wasting Time in Zoom and Make Plans that Stick. In this interview, Alex talks about his background and career, what facilitation is and why it’s important, and the future of work.

Special Guest Peter H. Gregory - Peter is the author of the Leanpub book The Art of Writing Technical Books: The Tools, Techniques, and Lifestyle of a Published Author. In this interview, Peter talks about about his background and career, his work writing and publishing over 50 technical books, and the possibilities AI holds for authors in the future.

Alexandru Cernat - Alexandru is the author of the Leanpub book Longitudinal Data Analysis Using R. In this interview, Alexandru talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as an author.

Soledad Galli - Soledad is the author of the Leanpub book Feature Selection in Machine Learning with Python: Over 20 methods to select the most predictive features and build simpler, faster, and more reliable machine learning models. In this interview, Soledad talks about her background and career, moving away from academia into the corporate world, and becoming a successful self-employed instructor and content creator.

brian d foy - brian is the author of the Leanpub book Perl New Features: The evolution of Perl from v5.10 to now. In this interview, brian talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as an author.

Jeroen Leenarts - Jeroen is the author of the Leanpub book Being a Lead Software Developer. In this interview, Jeroen talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.

Bruno Rodrigues - Bruno is the author of the Leanpub book Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R. In this interview, Bruno talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.

Neil Keleher - Neil is the author of the Leanpub book Learning how to learn: Mental models. In this interview, Neil talks about his life and career, his books, what mental models are and how you can improve them, and about his approach to writing.

Diana Montalion - Diana is the author of the Leanpub book Writing as Thinking: Practices for Technology Professionals. In this interview, Diana talks about her background and her career, becoming a systems architect, the nature of non-linear systems thinking, and how writing can help you learn how to think differently.

Markus Voelter - Markus is the author of the Leanpub book How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner’s Guide to Domain Analysis. In this interview, Markus talks about about his background and career, the omega tau podcast, the fascinating topic of domain analysis, and his writing.

Tim McConnaughy - Tim is the author of the Leanpub book The Hybrid Cloud Handbook for AWS: AWS Cloud Networking for Traditional Network Engineers. In this interview, Tim talks about his background and career, the essential work network engineers do, his book, and his experience as an author.