Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 204 | Abel Wang - Intensity
Guest:
Abel Wang talks with Dave Rael about background expectations, outlets to maintain sanity, growth, and working hard
Meet #TheRockstar. Abel Wang is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for .NET and Mobile at Microsoft. Before that, he was a Technical Solutions Professional on the Developer Experience team in Microsoft focusing on developer tools including Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. Before joining Microsoft, Abel spent seven years as a Process Consultant and a Certified Scrum Master helping customers globally develop solutions using agile practices and Team Foundation Server. Prior to that, Abel founded and sold his own software company. Abel is also an avid programmer and musician.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Abel Wang
- - Abel the musician
- - How Abel got started in software
- - How Abel compares to the expectations and examples of his family and the importance of working hard
- - Abel's relationship with Donovan Brown
- - The primacy of effort over giftedness
- - Donovan's family
- - Abel's story of building software companies
- - Abel's story of failure - building a product without a market and desperation for an escape
- - Abel's success story - textbook application of Agility and turning around a failing situation
- - How Abel stays current with what he needs to know
- - Abel's book recommendation
- - The things that have Abel most excited
- - Abel's role at Microsoft and getting into learning about marketing
- - The things that cause Abel pain and suffering
- - Abel's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Abel
Resources:
Abel's book recommendation:
Abel's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Be customer obsessed
- Iterate quickly, get feedback, make course corrections, fail fast
- Work hard
