Guest Laurence Knell, Director at Strategic Innovation Partners and Co-Founder Brain for Business talking to us about his work studying failure. https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenceknell/ https://brainforbusiness.ie/ [email protected] Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagra…

In this solo episode I talk about our web app built using views, Azure Serverless Functions, and S3. I also talk about changes to our workflow based on the Shape Up book by Ryan Singer of Basecamp, you should definitely read the book. https://vuejs.org/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/ https://basecamp.com/shapeup https://rewor…

Guest John Cunningham co-founder of 'Victory CTO' tells use some amazing war stories from his time helping clients with surprising challenges. He also shares parts of his journey starting companies. Victory is the world's leading Hypernetic Solutions consultancy, delivering business evolution through technology, data-driven process, and cross-disci…

Jamie White an entrepreneur who founded Leading Social and The University of Life. The University of life: 'We believe that there's no greater wealth acquired than all that you learn in life through the likes of good & bad experiences, challenges, dedicated study and life long pursuit. The University of Life is centred around the sharing of these l…

Guest Chris Hardie tells us about his very interesting journey he was an entrepreneur for over 16 years, is now working on Special Projects at Automattic makers of wordpress.com. Hear about what it was like starting his company, many of the things he learned along the way and his transition to working for a great company. https://twitter.com/ChrisH…

Guest Devon Campbell talks to us about switching career to be a freelance Web Developer, and creating a resource for others to do the same. He also gives free mentoring sessions to help people with the preperation and transition. https://raddevon.com https://twitter.com/raddevon https://www.linkedin.com/in/raddevon/ Email: [email protected] T…

Guest: Remo H Jansen organiser of JSDayIe joins us to discuss open-source contribution, writing a technical book, starting a meetup, and ultimately starting a conference. Buy your ticket using this discount code: https://ti.to/wolk-software-limited/jsdayie-2019/discount/CTODA https://www.linkedin.com/in/remojansen/ https://www.jsday.org/ https://tw…

Guests David Feinman and Zach Medina co-founders of Viral Ideas and Flixation join me to talk about starting two companies in the Video marketing space. David and Zach have been on their entrepreneurial journey from an early age, and they were good friends before starting the two businesses the currently operate. https://flixation.co/ https://www.v…

Guest Ryan Hopkins tells us about starting Trigger Media and his first foray into entrepreneurship. Trigger Media is a full-service digital agency based in Dublin that specialises in technology, marketing and creative. https://triggermedia.ie/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hopkinsryan/ https://twitter.com/ryanhopkins10 https://twitter.com/triggermedi…

Andy talks to us about his work with Startup Ireland as well as the journey to product market fit with Zappaz. https://twitter.com/StartupIreland https://zappaz.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-o-connor/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://d…

Felipe joins us to talk about what's on his mind. This week it's social media and reducing the one's addiction to the dopamine hits. https://twitter.com/seufelipe https://www.instagram.com/seufelipe/ https://letterboxd.com/seufelipe/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.al…

Find out more about Simon Wardley’s Value Chain Mapping and the journey to creating a map with Aidan Molloy. #WardleyMapping for #ProductManagement Checkout this post for images to help understand what we are discussing. https://medium.com/workday-engineering/detailing-the-evolution-of-the-workday-grid-through-wardley-mapping-affcf436a73c https://w…

Dermot talks with us about starting WONDR - A Digital product Practice, and Peter talks with us about managing multiple software projects WONDR - A Digital Product Practice bringing Clarity + Bravery to digital businesses https://wondr.io/ https://twitter.com/wondrdublin Dermot: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkos/ Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/p…

Vessy has created an online community for those leading Diversity and Inclusion initiatives - vessy.com [email protected] https://vessy.com/ https://twitter.com/vessytash https://www.linkedin.com/in/vesselinatasheva Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: http…

Tom is helping move the video game industry towards more diversity with the Diversity and Inclusion Manifesto https://diversitymanifesto.org https://twitter.com/tomwillfixit https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwillfixit/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: ht…

Rohan Facilitator/Consultant/Design Sprint Master at Lean Disruptor talks with me about design sprints, and lean thinking. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohan-perera/ https://leandisruptor.com/ [email protected] https://twitter.com/Rohan_LD Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.…

Mary and I talk about business coaching and Emotional Intelligence (EQI) http://idetermine.ie/ [email protected] https://twitter.com/i_determine Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

Davy and I discuss a number of important elements of a startups including what happens if co-founders break up. Hackages 'Where Hack Means Education', software development training, guidance, and consultancy. https://hackages.io/ https://hackflix.dev/ https://twitter.com/davyengone Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_al…

John and I discuss his work, challenges, and improvments at Phorest Salon Software as well as Ship It Con 2019 "A community driven non profit conference about Software Delivery." https://twitter.com/johnwildoran https://shipitcon.com/ https://nothingventured.rocks/ https://www.phorest.com/careers/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twi…

Allen the founder of 'No Place Like' and I discuss Augmented Reality, and starting up. We also touch on some (pre)accelerator programmes. https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-wixted-6638a7b6/ https://www.instagram.com/allenwixted/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ …

After hearing a presentation about ops fire drills given by James, which was something already on my mind, I wanted to talk with James more about the topic. [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jawynne/ The Dungeons and Dragons talk is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmizLzszopw Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/d…

Fran and I have a great discuss on helping a team work in a more agile fashion, and how this has worked in her experiance. https://www.linkedin.com/in/francessmyth/ https://twitter.com/Fran_Frankly Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.…

In this episode I get to talk to Adam about travel, working in a bootstrapped startup, and hear a few amazing perls of wisdom about life in general. [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-coulon-a38963135/ https://twitter.com/FooBarKing Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.insta…

Andrew and I discuss starting NewsWhip, life as a CTO, and his new venture. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-mullaney-669724a/ https://twitter.com/andrewmull Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

Angela and I discuss the what's involved in mentoring a startup, some things to do and some things to avoid as a startup to make the journey better. [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeladuffy1/ https://twitter.com/_angela_duffy Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram…

Find out the parallels of mental health to monoliths versus microservices! You can find Lewis here: https://twitter.com/denhamparry https://denhamparry.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/denhamparry/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-alber…

Joe Morgan is Founder and CoOrganizer of the Kansas City React Meetup, a UI developer, and the author of 'Simplifying JavaScript' https://pragprog.com/book/es6tips/simplifying-javascript https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/against-teaching-kids-to-code-creativity-problem-solving.html https://ponyfoo.com/ https://twitter.com/joesmorgan https://…

Well Jira has won the battle ... as of now. And we have found a way to reduce cycle time by having a couple of kick-off meetings. Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

I sat down with Felipe to discuss UX/UI and doing the best for our users. Felipe on Twitter https://twitter.com/seufelipe and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/seufelipe/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.on…

You need this in your life: https://bulletjournal.com/ this is a life philosophy as much as a note taking technique. I've tried the #BuJo #BulletJournal before, and it didn't take. This is how it integrated in my life after listenting to the new audio book by Ryder Carroll https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Bullet-Journal-Method-Audiobook/0008261393 …

I went to a meetup on Leadership and Agile and there were a few slides I found interesting, the more I talked about them the deeper I went. Some really interesting point on making sure you and your agile team are doing the right things. The event was at: https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Tech-Talks/events/255963191/ Max: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max…

I sat down with Jennifer Griffin and Brian Holohan of Turn2me E-Mental Health to discuss their services and mental health. turn2me.org was founded in 2009 stemming from the very personal experiences of brothers Oisin and Diarmuid Scollard, who lost their brother to suicide in 2003. They had a vision to create a web space for people to share, discus…

Differences between Azure Container Service (ACS), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and the first significant downtime we've had at medit with Kubernetes Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

Some learnings from our company meetup, scaling down social media, CosmosDB. What if...? What to remove? Better us of my time, and some learnings of using CosmosDB in a new project. Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://me…

Alan Costello an NDRC Venture Investment Leader (VIL) of Medit and many more startups and I discuss being prepared to apply for an accelerator programme, and many other elements for a startup's success https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanjcostello/ https://twitter.com/alanjcostello https://www.ndrc.ie/ https://twitter.com/ndrc_hq Email: podcast@dave-al…

QT: How I went from not posting a new episode in a year to several per week Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.onlineDi Dave Albert

QT: We use both Slack and Trello, not always as they should be used. I talk about how this causes unneeded stress and distraction within the team. Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

Will Youmans founder of Forefront Software and CTO Sumo and I discuss how he helps founders without a CTO transition to having one with his new private Beta service CTO Sumo https://twitter.com/wyoumansdev https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamyoumans/ https://www.forefrontsoftware.com/ https://www.ctosumo.com/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: …

Dave Denham and I discuss building software using Agile, Lean, Scrum, and the Agile Lean Ireland conference https://twitter.com/cobrakaiagile https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddenham/ https://www.agileleanireland.org/ https://twitter.com/AgileLeanIrl Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram…

Ed Burke of CEO and founder of RooMigo and I discuss starting up without a CTO, and using Facebook groups to validate a startup idea. [email protected] https://roomigo.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-burke/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/roomigo/ https://twitter.com/BurkeyEd https://twitter.com/roomigohq Email: [email protected] Twitter: htt…

Jake and I discuss technology using in web scrapping and scrapping prevention using AI/ML https://twitter.com/tech_ccs https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-cahill-maine/ https://www.ccstechme.com/ https://dev.to/kaelscion Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: …

After attending an Azure meetup, I have new information that may make using CosmosDB possible and attractive. Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.onlineDi Dave Albert

Dermot sources startup investment opportunities and with cash and acceleration mentor them through to securing early customers and follow-on investment. You can find Dermot on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dermotcasey/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/…

I sat down with Rob Healy of Ammeon who is a co-organizer of the Agile-Lean Ireland group. We discussed how startups and other orginisations can use Agile and Lean to do more faster. A bit about Rob Rob is a principal consultant with Ammeon where he provides agile and lean training, coaching and consulting services to startups, SMEs and enterprise …

What is CI/CD, how we use it at Medit and how it makes us better Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.onlineDi Dave Albert

QT: How I use Jupyter notebooks, and how to use javascript with them -- more about Jupyter here: https://jupyter.org/ and more about IJavascript here: http://n-riesco.github.io/ijavascript/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | ht…

A startup needs to move quickly, but sometimes we sometimes try to move so vast that we cost ourselves more time fixing what we broke. Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

We changed our mindset to be more deliver focused and had good results. We've come a long way, and still have a long way to go. Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

QT: What would you chose native mobile applications or a hybrid app like React Native? We chose native this episode explains my reasoning. Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.online…

QT: https://medit.online chose MongoDB as our main datastore? Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_albert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.albert/ Websites: https://dave-albert.com | https://medit.onlineDi Dave Albert