Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 040 | Yves Goeleven - Look at Users
Guest:
Yves Goeleven talks with Dave Rael about software in the cloud, learning from users, and making promise reality
Yves has been shipping enterprise and cloud software since 2001. He is specialized in the design of distributed software systems using messaging. Next to being the founder of MessageHandler.net, an online platform for the co-creation of message processing logic, he is also active as a Solution Architect for Particular Software (NServiceBus), which provides a messaging platform for developing such logic. Yves has been awarded Windows Azure MVP for the last 5 years and is a regular on the speaking circuit.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Yves Goeleven
- - Yves's definition of value
- - How Yves got started in software
- - Yves's story of failure, significant financial impact
- - Yves's greatest success story, spontaneiously overhearing users raving about software and what it did for them
- - How Yves stays current with what she needs to know
- - Yves's book recommendation
- - The things that have Yves most excited about his present and future
- - Comparison and contrast of the intent of MessageHandler and NServiceBus
- - Yves's feedback channels
- - The greatest sources of pain in Yves's life and work
- - The things about which Yves likes to geek out apart from software
- - Yves's prediction for the future of software
- - Yves's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Yves
- - Farewell
Resources:
- Yves's Site
- Message Handler
- Particular Software
- Microsoft Azure
- Barco
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Frederick Brooks - No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident in Software Engineering
Yves's book recommendation:
Yves's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Look at users - don't ask them what they want, they don't know - watch what they do instead
2. Try to fix real problems
3. Keep doing 1 and 2
