Tom Ridge

Father. Leader. Speaker. Engineer.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

Everyone wants fast delivery.

What you actually want is predictable delivery.

You get predictable by working small.

When you work small you get more feedback, for your product and your code.

Know what happens when you action feedback more often?

You get fast delivery.

[Sammy Herbert @SammyHerbert]

Full room for @tjridge at #dddadelaide for his talk on How to (remotely) win friends and influence people 🎉

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

Still in amazement at just how incredible the talk from Kate was today. Story telling, technical detail all top notch, and it was her first time speaking to boot. Incredible

#DDDAdelaide

[DDDAdelaide @DDDAdelaide]

Speaker Spotlight🔦

All of us were juniors in our careers once up on a time - we all started somewhere 🐣 Kate Yvonne Kearsley is here to talk to us about succeeding as a junior software engineer, giving the gift of her hard-won knowledge to the next generation! #DDDAdelaide

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

@glennwrites1 I saw someone frame anger once as just “misaligned expectations”, and that just rang so true to me.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

@waronweakness What do you think is the main blocker to folks getting started though? What’s that mindshift that happens so all of a sudden doing all the above is just no big deal

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

@kirbyjswalls @thejoshsandefer @Youssef_Writes @waronweakness I’ll join ya mate.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

@dvassallo I’ve been a little shocked (in a good way), with how much this has worked on threads.

Going to definitely start doing that here, too.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

@davekinkead Nah mate this is the way imo. You’re just focussed on shipping value, so you can get that feedback loop going faster.

Love this stuff.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

4. Consume

By now you might have a bit of a rough idea on the what, find some of the best sources of content to help complete the picture of what it might look like.

If you find yourself endlessly consuming, you can stop, that’s probably the thing worth exploring more.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

@TWindscheffel is great at reinforcing the value of “stopping to start”, when it comes to software delivery.

What I didn’t anticipate was just how valuable this idea was when reviewing your own career trajectory.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

3. Chat with a coach or mentor

Chatting through my situation with a coach throughout this process has been hugely beneficial.

It’s helped me to test the waters for some early thinking and be reality checked.

Little bit by bit you can narrow in on your path

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

“Remote collaboration is harder”, of course it is, if you never spend time intentionally creating opportunities for remote staff to get to know each other in and around meetings, collaboration is absolutely going to suffer.

#remotework

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

There’s a lot of push to get remote workers back in the office in the name of collaboration.

Yet, most companies pushing this never put in the effort to create that sort of collaboration in a remote context to begin with.

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

I've been spending some time digging into Rom.rb internals and learning how to leverage its upsert command in an application. I've written a guide for how to write you own custom rom command and handle bulk upsert to boot.

https://t.co/21a0jGRBKn

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

Want to improve your team's decision-making and ability to ship faster? Check out my post on the importance of psychological safety engineering teams. #engineering #teamwork #leadership #agile #softwaredevelopment

https://t.co/m9me24Joyu

[Tom Ridge @tjridge]

@mark_barbs @alexdia25 Well, everything will be in their desired places after that with some luck.

[Laura Tacho 🌮 @rhein_wein]

Scheduling your team at 100% capacity is a great way to ensure that nothing will be delivered on time.