0146 - Software@ with Ritika and Eleanor

Herzlich Willkommen, Bienvenue, Добрый день, Namaste to our dear guests and interviewees, Ritika and Eleanor and welcome back to our dear listeners to our "Software@", on Design Talk! Q1: Please tell us a little bit about yourself, your background and your experience. Q2: As both of you are currently working using scrum, what are the daily practices you use, to favour agile development? Q3: Could you give us a little more insight on how the KANBAN board is used at your company? Q4: Does the Kanban board really make a difference if JIRA is already in use? - or - what does the KANBAN board offer vs JIRA? Q6: How do you deal with the frequent changes in requirements by clients? Q7: How do you keep the distance to your clients small? Q8: Was there a situation where you had to respond to your clients requirements but you did not have enough time to check with your team? Q9: On the topic of collaboration, are you working together while following review methodologies or have you worked in a pair programming environment? Q10: How does estimation and forward planning work in your organisation? Q11: You have to do your part of coding but also have your focus on Agile. In your opinion, does Agile put stress on us? Q12: What does your company do to promote an agile mindset? Q13: If you could change anything in your (agile) environment, what would it be? Q14: Lastly, on a personal note, why would one want to work in your company? So, on that note… I would like to thank you both for taking the time to talk with us today. And for sharing your knowledge and experiences. Thank you for listening. The production team was: Mariia Biziokuova Roshna Rasheed Adit Pareek Celine Guillon This episode was produced in collaboration with our guests Eleanor Rutherford and Ritika M Mehta, as well as with the support of Allen Higgins and UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. The episode was recorded on October 28th, 2021. The music used for the intro/outro was “Ultimate” by Strobotone. For more details see the show-notes and acknowledgements. Acknowledgements Music Title: Ultimate Artist: Strobotone (artist website http://records.strobotone.de) Source: https://bit.ly/30QUhGs License: CC BY-ND- 4.0 Cover Art Title : Software Circuit Mannequin Artist: Composition by Roshna Rasheed and Allen Higgins using design image by Geralt@Pixabay (source: https://bit.ly/3nMtTWE - Pixabay License - Free for commercial use, No attribution required). Recolour Purple Accent Colour 6 Light. Temperature 8,043. Saturation 243%. Source: software_circuit_mannequin.png License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Design Talk (dot IE) Podcast License Design Talk (dot IE) is released under the “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike version 4.0 creative commons license aka CC BY-NC-SA 4.0