Developer on Fire

Episode 067 | Llewellyn Falco - Must Ship It

Dec 3 '15

Guest:

Llewellyn Falco talks with Dave Rael about teaching and learning, life with intellectual parents, pair programming, a scientific mind, and shipping software

Llewellyn Falco is an Agile Technical Coach specializing in Legacy Code and Test Driven Development. He is the creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests( www.approvaltests.com ), co-founder of TeachingKidsPrograming ( www.teachingkidsprogramming.org ) and a Pluralsight author.

Chapters:

0:28 - Dave Introduces the show and Llewellyn Falco
2:40 - Llewellyn's diverse set of points of origin
3:48 - Llewellyn's affinity for and methods of teaching - especially test driven development with children
9:21 - Llewellyn's unique approach of pair programming - "strong-style pairing"
11:29 - The origin of strong-style pairing
15:03 - Llewellyn's definition of value
18:56 - The balance of success - within you and outside of you
20:55 - How Llewellyn got started in software
23:48 - The things that "light Llewellyn up"
26:51 - The appeal of Test-Driven Development
32:30 - Llewellyn's story of failure - building the wrong thing and a lack of explicit agreements
38:45 - Llewellyn's greatest success - adding unanticipated functionality without difficulty - "fit's like it was designed for it"
41:37 - How Llewellyn stays current with what he needs to know
47:38 - Llewellyn's book recommendation
51:26 - Llewellyn's prediction for the future of software
54:14 - Llewellyn's top 3 tips for delivering more value
58:03 - Keeping up with Llewellyn

Resources:

Llewellyn's book (and video and podcast) recommendations:

Llewellyn's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

1. Invest in yourself - do something that scares yourself
2. Work with other people - don't work by yourself
3. Ship it

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