Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 047 | Amy Palamountain - Enhancing Communication
Guest:
Amy Palamountain talks with Dave Rael about listening and understanding, delivering enhanced communication, and exciting big changes
Amy Palamountain is from New Zealand and really likes programming, skiing and is a bit of a Morrissey fan. She works at GitHub building GitHub Desktop, so day to day she writes a ton of C#. She has a background in genetics, high performance computing, Web API design, and JavaScript client side architectures. These days she finds herself focusing on what it means to build a slick UI using reactive extensions.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Amy Palamountain
- - The draw of genetics and relationship with software
- - How Amy started speaking and working at GitHub
- - Amy's definition of value
- - Amy's story of failure, customer communication
- - Any's greatest success story, delivering GitHub Desktop and learning the value it created
- - Git and GitHub utility for non-coders
- - How Amy stays current with what she needs to know
- - The differences of the many communications media and comfort with putting ourselves out there
- - Amy's book recommendation
- - The things that have Amy most excited about her present and future
- - The greatest sources of pain in Amy's life and work
- - The things about which Amy likes to geek out other than software
- - Amy's prediction for the future of software
- - Amy's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Amy
- - Farewell
Resources:
Amy's book recommendation:
Amy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Try to listen from the perspective of the speaker
2. Participate in code review and volunteer to do so
3. Talk to your customers and really listen
