Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://amy.palamounta.in/">Amy Palamountain</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ammeep">@ammeep</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle">Amy Palamountain talks with Dave Rael about listening and understanding, delivering enhanced communication, and exciting big changes</div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Amy Palamountain is from New Zealand and really likes programming, skiing and is a bit of a Morrissey fan. She works at GitHub building GitHub Desktop, so day to day she writes a ton of C#. She has a background in genetics, high performance computing, Web API design, and JavaScript client side architectures. These days she finds herself focusing on what it means to build a slick UI using reactive extensions.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Amy Palamountain</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The draw of genetics and relationship with software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Amy started speaking and working at GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Amy's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Amy's story of failure, customer communication</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Any's greatest success story, delivering GitHub Desktop and learning the value it created</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Git and GitHub utility for non-coders</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Amy stays current with what she needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The differences of the many communications media and comfort with putting ourselves out there</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Amy's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Amy most excited about her present and future</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The greatest sources of pain in Amy's life and work</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Amy likes to geek out other than software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Amy's prediction for the future of software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Amy's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Amy</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Farewell</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://amy.palamounta.in/" target="_blank">Amy's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://desktop.github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub Desktop</a></li> </ul> <h6>Amy's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449306578/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node - Mike Amundsen</a></li> </ul> <h6>Amy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Try to listen from the perspective of the speaker</li> <li>Participate in code review and volunteer to do so</li> <li>Talk to your customers and really listen</li> </ol> <p></p> </div> </div>
