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Episode 173 | Jon Jagger - Know Why

Jon Jagger talks with Dave Rael about options, purpose, priorities, and making useful things

Jon Jagger is a software consultant specializing in practice, process, test driven development, and complex-adaptive systems-thinking. He helps teams improve their effectiveness at collaboratively developing software. Hire him! If you donโ€™t like his work he wonโ€™t invoice you. He's 30 years old (hex) and he's loved software since he was 10 (decimal). He built cyber-dojo.org to promote deliberate practice for software developers. It's an open source project, and if you're a commercial organization making use of the public server you need a license, and all the money raised goes to a charity he has setup which buys Raspberry Pis for kids. He's an author, former conference chairman, and a proud father and husband who loves coarse fishing and salmon fishing and lives in Somerset, England.

Jon's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Do stuff in iterations
  2. Get feedback and make sure you use it
  3. Get the point across via telling stories and analogies

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