David explains what systems integration really means when it comes down to getting things connected, and what things we are trying to connect in the first place.

September 6, 2021 30m

episode 13: The death of custom software development

Where has software been? Where is it going? Integration is the new hotness & problem to be solved.

September 1, 2021 17m

episode 12: The fastest little steam engine

A little story about two little steam engines racing to the next station. You'll have to listen to find out what this has to do with software.

June 14, 2021 7m

episode 11: GTD, Books, Refactoring, Entrepreneurlessness & Doglost volunteering

Tim goes solo on recent blog posts (GTD, refactoring, books for life), plus volunteering with Doglost, and why on earth it's been 5+ years and still no successful startup.

February 9, 2021 40m

episode 10: A retrospective of mentoring, with David Gisbey

Tim was David Gisbey's assigned mentor at DfE. They discuss with the benefit of hindsight what makes for a good mentorship relationship.

May 27, 2020 59m

episode 9: Still hiding from covid19

David & Tim improve each other's mental health with some unstructured chit-chat. Being unfixable nerds of course we still cover technology and some useful tools.

April 30, 2020 1h12m

episode 8: Hiding from Covid-19 and the end of 2 years at DfE

David and Tim just a have a catchup to keep sane in isolation. They discuss lessons learned from 2 years at the new DfE Digital including how to migrate platforms well, and how to do personal backlogs in the basecamp-shapeup style instead of a single back

April 4, 2020 24m

episode 7: Ditching Hourly coaching with Jonathan Stark

As posted at https://podcast.ditchinghourly.com/episodes/coaching-call-with-tim-abell - reposted with permission. https://jonathanstark.com/

January 27, 2020 1h10m