Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://thepaulrayner.com/">Paul Rayner</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/thepaulrayner">@thepaulrayner</a></div> </div> </div> <p>Paul Rayner talks with Dave Rael about imparting knowledge and wisdom, improving clients rather than just helping, and understanding the domain</p> <p>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.</p> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Paul Rayner</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Training with Domain Language, Eric Evans's organization</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Paul's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Skills and leveling up</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Paul as Jedi Master training Padawans in useful skills</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Paul up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The value of concrete business examples</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - An example of the value of working closely with customers and solving problems</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Paul's story of failure, priorities and boundaries</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Paul stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Paul's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Refactoring - Microdesign as the foundation of all architecture patterns</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Knowing how to use your tools</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Paul likes to geek out other than software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Paul's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Paul</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Farewell</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <p>Resources:<br><a href="http://thepaulrayner.com/">Paul's Blog<br></a><a href="http://www.virtual-genius.com/">Paul's Business<br></a>Paul's upcoming book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003DKG5H6/?tag=devonfir-20">The Design of Design</a></p> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Paul's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201485672/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler</a></li> </ul> </div> <h6>Paul's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Listen to your customers - understand the impact you are trying to make</li> <li>Iterating is important, deliver small increments of value</li> <li>Get good at working in teams</li> </ol> <h3></h3>
