Episode #56: Evan Light

Episode #56: Evan Light

Oct 31, 12 • In Featured, Interviews, Podcast

In this episode, Evan Light, a freelance software developer and mentor, talks about working with an apprentice, remote mentoring, and the power of reflection and education through suffering.

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Show Notes:

Evan Light (twitter / blog / Ruby DCamp / Triple Dog Dare)

 00:52 – Evan Light Introduction

  • Freelance Software Developer
  • Developer Mentor

01:03 – History with remote work

02:36 – Adjusting to working from home

  • Allowed him to focus more
  • Easy at first, but harder the longer he has been doing it
  • Needy cats

06:28 – Day to day work process

  • Maintain 2 clients at a time
  • Remote pairing

07:32 – Pairing with clients

08:20 – Working with an apprentice

  • Working in person
  • Pairing locally

10:07 – Remote mentoring

  • Startups whose code is a mess
  • People who want to learn techniques or learn from a problem

12:40 – Pomodoroing

13:54 – Working with larger distributed teams

  • The people who perform well aren’t the people you expect to perform well and vice versa
  • Work ethic tends to be different in the office than for people who work at home

17:09 – Regular Agile Retrospectives

  • Defining iteration length
  • Describing what things went well and what made people happy and what didn’t work well and made people unhappy

20:54 – Reflection

28:00 – Do what you love and share it with other people and it pays you back

About the Author: Avdi Grimm

Avdi has been leading and participating in dispersed software development teams since 2007. He works from home in Southern Pennsylvania, and loves the fact that working remotely enables him to spend more time with his wife and five (soon to be six) children.

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