Episode 225 | Olve Maudal - Trust Yields Performance

Guest: Olve Maudal @olvemaudal Olve Maudal speaks with Dave Rael about empowering the best 80% of developers, trust in organizations and interactions, growing better software in large systems and large organizations, and focusing on quality Olve Maudal works for Cisco Systems where he is involved in developing collaboration solutions and telepresence technology. He loves to write code, but he is just as interested in how software is developed as what it actually does. Main interests are embedded systems, C, C++, Python, TDD, secure coding, software architecture and machine learning. Olve lives just outside of Oslo with wife and two kids - he also enjoys chess, rubik's cube, outdoor activities and reading. He tweets as @olvemaudal once in a while, and sometimes he updates the website olvemaudal.com Chapters: 1:14 - Dave introduces the show and Olve Maudal4:27 - Olve and chess and the temptation to get consumed with specific interests6:04 - How Olve got started in software9:53 - Olve's current role at Cisco and the evolution of a huge codebase with many developers and many and frequent commits12:11 - Counterintuitive secrets to maintaining software over decades and with large teams18:27 - Olve's approach to fostering a focus on quality20:15 - Olve's advice for improving code quality and the quality of an organization26:47 - Olve's story of failure - Losing interest in an interesting project because of an unsustainable pace33:57 - Olve's success story - Improving the operation of an organization with positive practices and creating tools where they didn't exist41:06 - Olve's book recommendations43:51 - The things about which Olve likes to geek out46:15 - Olve's top 3 tips for delivering more value48:59 - Keeping up with Olve Resources: Olve's Blog Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun Books Knut Hamsun Quotes Hewlett Packard 29C Programmable Calculator Commodore VIC-20 Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire Jon Jagger on Developer On Fire Kevlin Henney on Developer On Fire James Grenning on Developer On Fire Seismic Acquisition The Agile Manifesto Cruise Control Jenkins Tinderbox The Good Foot Theory (Book in Norwegian) A Riveting Conversation In Which Olve Participated - Branching strategies and continuous delivery Olve's book recommendation: Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry - James P. Womack Olve's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Allow yourself to trust others and make sure to behave in a way that you can be trusted Continue to get better at the things at which you are already good and rely on your teammates to compensate for your weaknesses Stay close to the money flow to know whether you are succeeding