Bounded Context: Recent Episodes
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Interviews with industry experts to explore how they approach problem-solving, the methods and tools they use, career influences, and lessons learned along the way.
Elisabeth is an author and technology executive with a proven track record for growing leadership teams and shaping cultures to build innovative products at a sustainable pace. She is the Founder and CTO of Curious Duck Digital Laboratory, a company that is building a game to explore tradeoffs in software development. Sign up to be the first to play.
Connect with Elisabeth: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter
Check out her books: Explore It! and There's Always a Duck.
Episode links:
Game Development Conference (GDC) Talks
Gerald Weinberg, Systems Thinking
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, Theory of Constraints (TOC)
Peter Senge, Intro to Systems Thinking
Relationship and Difference Between Greenplum and PostgreSQL
Comparing Rails, StimulusReflex, and Hotwire
Ruby on Rails
Tim Beattie is Global Head of Product and a Senior Principal Engagement Lead for Red Hat Open Innovation Labs. His career in product delivery spans 20 years as an Agile and Lean Transformation Coach.
His new book, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShiftfeatures real-world practices—some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related—to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering.
Connect with Tim: LinkedIn, Twitter
Book: DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift
E-book: DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs
Red Hat free e-book
Open Source, Open Minds
Mobius Loop
Gabrielle Benefield, Bounded Context Ep. 9
CI/CD continuous integration continuous delivery
Eric Cunningham bridges the divide between business and technology to design and implement solutions that enable rapid, sustainable growth for companies conducting business on a global scale. From customer-facing to back-end environments, he creates IT strategies, development roadmaps, and service architectures that support business goals and contributes to corporate value creation. When it comes to engineering and architecture, Eric embraces the power of cloud-native computing and living in a non-datacenter world.
Ryan and Eric discuss cloud migration architecture patterns, iterative development with guardrails, engineering feedback loops, blockchain, quantum computing, serverless, batch processes, and how to establish and maintain domain expertise in the age of information.
Connect with Eric: LinkedIn
Episode Notes:
Capital One Tech
Individual Contributors and People Leaders
Challenger Model
Mike Eason
Melanie Frank
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Power Play, by Tim Higgins
Conan O’Brein Needs a Friend
Chris Matts used his extensive knowledge of financial derivatives to develop an approach on how to deal with decision-making and named it real options. Unlike the "traditional" Real Options approach that is based on Black-Scholes, his approach avoids complex mathematics and focuses on the practical implications of options. His model teaches us to understand the timing of decision-making and discover new options that were never appreciated. Chris teamed up with Olav Maassen and Chris Geary to create the first business graphic novel about managing risk on projects. In the novel, the main character Rose Randall learns how to apply the real options approach to the way she manages her new project.
He joins Ryan Shriver to discuss risk management, Real Options, how to improve decision making, key project management tools, and so much more.
Connect with Chris: LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog, Book
Episode Links:
Commitment: Novel about Managing Project Risk
Commitment Blog
"Real Options" Underline Agile Practices
Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics
Tony Grout
Ace is a listener, mediator, guide, and speaker with the ability to read an audience - in person or digitally - and draw from them their toughest questions, greatest vulnerabilities, and boldest ideas. An instinctive bridge-builder, he brings intellectual openness and deploys the most sophisticated techniques to ensure parties truly hear each other and stretch their creative minds to find innovative solutions to some of the world’s most intractable challenges.
Ryan and Ace discuss why an elegant solution to the wrong problem is an elegant solution to the wrong problem; The Five Why’s; the anatomy of a good idea; 3 unique ideation methods: brainwriting, worst idea, other people’s shoes; product-side vs. human-side of solution testing; and control what you can control and influence the variables. Plus, Ace shares his biggest influences and lessons learned along the way. Get ready to laugh and be inspired.
Connect with Ace: Linkedin, Website, Twitter, Message
Episode Links:
Envoy
Principles of Improv Theater in Practice
The Anatomy of a Good Idea
Art Espey
Cami Téllez
Tommy Nicholas
Justin Bullock
Coffitivity
Equal Sons
Jam with Ace: Manchester Orchestra, Michigander, Little Simz, Miles Davis, Explosions in the Sky, John Coltrane
How do we define critical thinking? Apply it? Learn it? Can we teach students and adults how to think more critically? In Episode 27, Dave Carillo joins Ryan Shriver to answer these questions and so much more.
Dave is Co-Founder of one of the country’s first academic offices devoted solely to studying critical thinking and raising critical thinking outcomes. He served as the lead administrator of the Interdisciplinary Writing and Reasoning Portfolio, has been published by The Hill, and is a critical thinking subject matter expert (SME) for the U.S. military. Dave lives in West Hartford, CT with his wife and two children.
Connect with Dave: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Podcast
Episode Notes
The Critical Thinking Initiative
Group Dynamics, Ideating, and Brainstorming, Smarterer Podcast
Smarterer Podcast, Dave Carillo and Steven Pearlman
America’s Critical Thinking Crisis: The Failure and Promise of Education, Steven Pearlman
Relaxing train sounds
Raw ice sounds
Otava Yo
Aphex Twin
Mathias Verraes runs a boutique consultancy that advises organizations on designing and modeling software for complex environments, including architecture, analysis, testing, and refactoring “unmaintainable” systems. He has worked with clients in Finance, Government, Supply Chain, Mobility, Energy, E-Commerce, and more. He teaches Domain-Driven Design courses and curates the DDD Europe conference. When he’s at home in Kortrijk, Belgium, he helps his two sons build crazy Lego contraptions.
Connect with Mathias: LinkedIn, Blog, Website, Twitter
Notes:
Domain-Driven Design Europe
Refactoring, Martin Fowler
DDD Conference Europe, Eric Evans
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: Blog, Twitter
Designing Object-Oriented Software, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts, by Mathias Verraes and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Data and Reality, William Kent
Object Thinking, Dave West
Cognitive Edge, Dave Snowden
Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers
String Quartets Pop Music, MV's Current Playlist
Brandon Linton is passionate about helping teams create amazing customer experiences through cloud architecture, lean software development, and product discovery. He specializes in the principles and practices that make for continuous delivery and software platforms that drive innovation.
Episode 25 covers Enterprise Architecture; helping teams achieve speed, quality, and better culture through living out DevOps principles; and so much more.
Connect with Brandon: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter
Episode Links:
CarMax
Shadow Price
Team Topologies, Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton
Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren Ph.D., Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
Continuous Delivery, Jez Humble and David Farley
The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner
Martin Fowler
Building Microservices, Sam Newman
API Intersection Stoplight Podcast
How Do Companies Invent? Melvin Conway
Jason Hall is an organizational servant with coaching strengths in creating safe spaces for teams to thrive, have fun, and most importantly deliver amazing products that customers love. He helps organizations develop a more customer-centric approach to product delivery grounded in measurable success. He's always learning, sharing, and striving to cultivate better organizations.
Episode Notes:
Coaching Towards Impactful Product over Working Software by Jason Hall
Collaborative Structures LLC
Teresa Torres, Product Talk
Continuous Discovery Habits
Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Thinking
Dan Ariely
Malcolm Gladwell
MF DOOM
Tyler, The Creator
Freddie Gibbs
Anne-Jeanette LeBell has over 25 years of proven success in software engineering and architecture. She cofounded BankShift, a mobile and web application to help you manage money, see all your assets in one place, make payments, shuffle money around, and accomplish what you need to do with your accounts.
This episode covers the emergence of open banking, the motivation behind BankShift, starting a business from the ground up, approaching gender stereotypes, how empathy and uncomfortable conversations can yield change, and so much more.
Connect with Anne-Jeanette: LinkedIn, Twitter
BankShift
How does BankShift work?
Julie Elberfeld
A Cloud Guru
CodeRVA
Alison Levine
Domain-Driven Design, Eric Evans
Jai has dedicated her entire career to managing and building technical products from a non-technical perspective. She’s an AWS product maven and an Agile pro who's spent over a decade partnering with like-minded practitioners to introduce CI/CD practices, cloud-native solutions, and deliver products that drive developers further up the value line. Jai leads the product practice in Global Digital Services, where customer point of view and the developer experience are everything—yet she still wants to be an astronaut.
Connect with Jai: LinkedIn
Liberty Mutual
Punky Brewster
John Cutler
Jai’s Playlist: Bonnaroo 2021, Joan Jett
Leah Cunningham is a technology professional with over twenty years of experience building, leading, and coaching teams to maximize value, delivery, and quality. She joins Ryan Shriver for EP 21. They cover chaos engineering, the benefits of task conflict, best practices for managing teams, acknowledging fallibility in leadership roles, the importance of playing > planning, and so much more.
Connect with Leah: LinkedIn
Verica
Chaos Engineering
Casey Rosenthal
Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren Ph.D., Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
Mob Programming, Woody Zuill
Semantic Diffusion, Martin Fowler
Revenge of the PMO, Marty Cagan
Spaghetti Tower Marshmallow Challenge
The Electric Fetus, Minneapolis MN
Leah’s soundtrack: Grant Green, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Trampled by Turtles
Is it possible to switch to The Cloud, in a way that is cost-effective and efficient? Wes North helps businesses evaluate risks and leverage their automated potential. In his interview with Ryan Shriver, he dives into this question and the future of technology operations— plus so much more!
Connect with Wes: LinkedIn, Twitter
Cornerstone
Gene Kim – IT Revolution
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity
Terraform: IaC at Enterprise Scale
Azure: IaC at Enterprise Scale
AWS CloudFormation: IaC at Enterprise Scale
Tom Illmensee is a product strategist, UX designer and researcher, startup coach, entrepreneur, music-maker, improviser, truth-seeker, and community organizer based in Richmond, VA. He is a Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie, a digital innovation studio, and Co-Founder and CEO of Orbital Music Park, an inclusive community and creative space for music-makers.
Tom joins Ryan Shriver for Bounded Context EP 19 and sheds light on the question, how do we honor our time with others?
Connect with Tom: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter
Song X Studio
Orbital Music Park
Philosophie Group Inc.
Welcome to the Universe, Neil Degrasse Tyson
The Practicing Stoic, Ward Farnsworth
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better, Pema Chödrön
Pocket Change, Nate Smith
Mandolin U Srinivas
Prince
Will the term “serverless” last? David Anderson joins Ryan Shriver for Episode 18 of Bounded Context to unpack this question and many more. If you’re curious about the Serverless First mindset or cutting costs on your digital journey, this interview is for you!
Connect with David: LinkedIn, Website, Twitter
Notes
Wardley Mapping
Domain Driven Design
Pioneers, Settlers, Time-Planners
Team Typologies
Kent Beck, 3X Model: Explore, Expand, Extract
The Secrets of Consulting, Gerald Weinburg
Marty Cagan
Mary Poppendieck
Chaos Community
Nick Tune is all about prioritizing outcomes and elevating the product mindset. He joins Ryan Shriver to unpack building autonomous teams and building the RIGHT thing VS. building the thing RIGHT.
Connect with Nick Tune:
LinkedIn, Website, Blog, Talks, Twitter
Notes:
LeanUX, Jeff Gothelf
Inspired, Marty Cagan
Eric Evans
Ida Pierce is a lifelong designer, creative problem-solver, and currently the Process and Solutions Manager at Markel’s Finance Organization. She joins Ryan Shriver to share how Design Thinking shapes her ability to connect, direct, and contribute to problem-solving. They cover empathy and assumption mapping, talent design, fair and inclusive hiring processes, and designing products and processes for good.
Episode Notes:
OpenIDEO – Richmond Chapter
The Read Center
Wonderbolt Labs
VA HBCU's
When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Understand Design Thinking in Under 5 Minutes
Bounded Context
Productivity Engineering is at the forefront of the DevOps movement, resembling "bounded context" principles — assess the problem, identify the end-goal, gain alignment, build a framework for how to get there, and push individual teams towards objectives quickly and efficiently. Andrew Glover, Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix, breaks down the core concept with examples, experiences, and influences along the way.
Andrew Glover: Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter
Notes:
Productivity Engineering
Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P Brooks
The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt
Team of Rivals, Doris Goodwin
a16z
Cautionary Tales
Java Design, Peter Coad
Ryan reconnects with Tom Gilb— author, teacher, consultant, methods inventor, and Senior Partner at GILB.com. They met at a conference in London in 2005 and stayed sharing tips, trends, changes, revelations, and pearls of wisdom in the world of problem-solving. Plus: FREE digital copies of Tom's best-selling books.
Tom's: Website, Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter
Notes:
Tom Gilb at TEDxTrondheim
Value Agile, Tom Gilb
Innovative Creativity, Tom Gilb
Enterprise Architecture Success Kit, Tom Gilb
Competitive Engineering, Tom Gilb
Graphmetrix
Theory of Sampling, W. Edwards Deming
In episode 13 of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver speaks with Dr. Miriam Friedel about technical vs. strategic problem-solving, leveraging machine learning to improve human processes, and how boots pair nicely with software engineering.
Connect with Miriam: LinkedIn, Blog
Capital One Tech
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Hamilton Soundtrack
Decisions are not one-and-done; they’re experiments that need to be run for a while. In Episode 12 of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver meets with Lyssa Adkins, AGILE and Leadership Coach, to discuss the art of decision-making.
Lyssa Adkins:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog, Website, Agile Coaching Institute
Episode Notes:
Design Thinking - Kevin Tuskey
Evolvagility - Michael Hamman
Agile Transformation - Michael Spayd, Michele Madore
Lead Together - Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield, Travis Marsh
Coaching Agile Teams audiobook - Lyssa Adkins
Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching
Clean Language Systemic Modeling - Caitlin Walker
From Contempt to Curiosity - Caitlin Walker
Diane Musho Hamilton
Ken Wilber
Floating Through Space
What do we do with the tremendous amount of data in the world today? Enter data privacy and data privacy laws. In episode 11, Ryan Shriver meets with Cathy Scerbo, VP, Chief Information Officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Listen as they confront the world’s data explosion and share how the technology community is responsible for protecting users' privacy rights.
Connect with Cathy: LinkedIn, Twitter
International Association of Privacy Professionals
Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Global Privacy and Security by Design
J. Trevor Hughes, IAPP President & CEO
The Future of Privacy
Smartless
Ryan Shriver catches up with Casey Lee — CTO of Gaggle, a tech company that helps ensure the safety and well-being of students.
Connect with Casey:
Gaggle, LinkedIn, Website, Twitter, AWS Container Hero
Ryan Shiver meets with Gabrielle Benefield — author, speaker, innovator, and the founder of MobiusLoop. They exchange stories, discuss industry influencers, and give advice about sharing ideas with the world.
Connect with Gabrielle:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Website
We're visiting Richmond in this episode of Bounded Context. Richmond, New Zealand, that is! Ryan interviews Clarke Ching, author, and chief productivity officer at Odd Socks Consulting.
In the seventh episode of Bounded Context, Ryan interviews Paul Duvall, Founder and former CTO at Stelligent.
SingleStone CTO Ryan Shriver interviews Justin Gehtland, CEO and Co-Founder of Cognitect.
SingleStone CTO Ryan Shriver meets with Artist, Author, Activist, Creativity Consultant, and Space Pirate Noah Scalin in the fifth episode of Bounded Context.
In the fourth episode of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver interviews Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart, Co-Founders at Dojo and Co and authors of Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution.
In the third episode of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver sits down with Vida Williams, Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Data at SingleStone. Vida is a revered leader in the tech space. In addition to her roles at SingleStone, Vida is a professor and Innovator in Resident at Virginia Commonwealth University, a gubernatorial appointee and co-chair of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Partnership Authority, and an impassioned activist for data privacy. She has contributed to TedX, TomTom Festival, The Frontier Partners, and countless client presentations. Vida also volunteers her data expertise to non-profits, offering free workshops and consulting. She leads organizations through exercises that help them to identify areas of improvement, new and better ways of showcasing their impact on the community, and how to use their data to foster growth.
In the second episode of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver catches up with John Chapin, Partner at Symphonia and Author of Programming AWS Lambda: Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with Java.
Bounded Context is a series aimed at exploring how leading thinkers solve problems, in hopes that you might discover a piece of knowledge to help you become a better problem solver, too. In this episode, our host, Ryan Shriver, interviews Don Mills, Chief Information Security Officer at SingleStone.