Paul Rayner - Facilitating Learning and Growth

Paul Rayner talks with Dave Rael about imparting knowledge and wisdom, improving clients rather than just helping, and understanding the domain / / Paul Rayner is a seasoned design coach and leadership mentor, helping teams ignite their design skills via DDD and BDD. He gets teams unstuck through intensive coaching workshops and hands-on pair programming, combined with focused one-on-one leadership mentoring. His companyVirtual Genius is a software solutions provider, specializing in custom Ruby applications. Paul actively serves the community: co-authoring the upcoming Addison Wesley book, BDD with Cucumber, teaching classes in BDD and DDD, contributing to OSS, and co-leading the DDD Denver Meetup group. / / Resources: / Paul's Blog / Paul's Business / Paul's upcoming book: Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber: Specification by Example for Ruby, Java, and .NET / Eric Evans's Organization: Domain Language / Kathy Sierra on Developer Skills and Cognitive Resource Management / Book: Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans / Book: Implementing Domain Driven Design - Vaughn Vernon / Matt Wynne on How much he's Refactoring / Jean-Paul Boodoo / Mark Seeman on Developer Productivity Tools / Dave's Response to Mark Seeman on Developer Productivity Tools / Frederick Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design / / Paul's book recommendation: / Refactoring - Martin Fowler / / Paul's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Listen to your customers - understand the impact you are trying to make / 2. Iterating is important, deliver small increments of value / 3. Get good at working in teams