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Software People Stories

Try experiments Over Talking with Woody Zuill

Jul 10, 2023
37:12

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Woody Zuill, Expert Coach and co-author of Mob Programming, shares his career journey

  • Balancing the speeches and consulting with consulting engagements
  • Woody shares tips and tricks of being in the speaking networks
  • Woody talks about joy of creating his own businesses - Almost 16 of them is creating 
  • Woody shares early experiments on signs and making new things
  • He shares his passion of making his day productive by avoiding repeated steps and automate
  • Woody shares his deep inflection points in his career that has positioned him today 
  • Woody also shares his ideal places to work and attracting like minded people to work 
  • Instead of Doing what others are expecting of us and always uplifting to oneself also
  • Woody also shares deep views on how one needs to contribute for a better tomorrow

Woody has been programming computers for almost 40 years, and have 20+ years of experience as an Extreme Programmer, and 15+ years as an Agile Guide of some sort. He truly believes that code must be simple, clean, and maintainable so that we can realize the Agile promise of Responding to Change, and that we must constantly "Inspect and Adapt".

Woody is a co-author with Kevin Meadows of the book "Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach". He’s a prolific speaker on this topic at conferences, user groups, and meet-ups all over the world.

More generally, I've delivered workshops, trainings, and coaching sessions on Agile Software Development, Mob Programming, and Software Development Practices for a number of firms including Ericsson, Schneider Electric, Qualcomm, Intel, H & M, King Games, Capital One, Twitter, and Spotify.

Woody can be connected at https://www.linkedin.com/in/woodyzuill/ 



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