Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 075 | Pavneet Singh Saund - Pushing Boundaries
Pavneet is a web developer and team lead, currently working for Scandinavia's largest e-commerce player, Komplett Group. He has a passion for creating solutions that make users' lives easier. Pavneet has worked across the .NET stack and has found an ever-growing love for JavaScript in the front-end, but still has a tendency to cascade himself into trouble. Pavneet is involved in the local community as founder of Slack community Vestfold Developers and chapter lead for Norwegian .Net User Group Vestfold. He's also contributer to open-sourced projects Forseti (Javascript test runner) and Bifrost (Line of Business application framework based on CQRS and DDD, and healthy development practices). He fills his spare time family, friends and running.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Pavneet Singh Saund
- - Pavneet's definition of value
- - Team chemistry and business focus on projects
- - Being an advocate for the user
- - Origins of a domain-focused approach
- - The things that "light Pavneet up"
- - How Pavneet stays current with what he needs to know
- - Leading developer communities
- - How Pavneet got started in software
- - Pavneet and software craftsmanship
- - Pavneet's story of failure - too much focus on software methodolgy, lack of focus on the end user, wrong methodology and flow for the client
- - Pavneet's story of success - introduction to Scrum, delivering ahead of schedule and on budget
- - Pavneet's book recommendations
- - The things about which Pavneet is most excited
- - The greatest sources of pain in Pavneet's life and work
- - Pavneet's prediction for the future of software
- - Pavneet's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Pavneet
Resources:
- Pav's Blog
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts - Gary D Chapman
- Dave's Review of The 5 Love Languages
- Spotify Agile Engineering Culture - Matt Harasymczuk
- Woody Zuill on #NoEstinates
- Woody Zuill on Developer On Fire
Pavneet's book recommendations:
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Marshall B. Rosenberg
Pavneet's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Listen first and then listen more
2. Don't just do something, stand there
3. Enable others succeed
