Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://solutionwave.net/">Kevin Krueger</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/kevinkrueger">@kevinkrueger</a></div> </div> </div> <p>Kevin Krueger talks with Dave Rael about identifying what will really help clients and delivering solutions</p> <p>Kevin Krueger is Founder and Principal Consultant at SolutionWave, a small software development consulting firm in Longmont, Colorado. Kevin's business experience started in the 9th grade when he and business partner started selling computers in rural North Dakota. A few years after graduating from North Dakota State University in Fargo, Kevin moved to Colorado in 2001. Today he specializes in web and mobile development on the Microsoft platform.</p> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Kevin Krueger</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Comfort as the enemy of growth</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Kevin's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The software professional as "solution provider"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Kevin up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Kevin's story of failure, lessons of the importance of culture</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Kevin's greatest success story, finding his niche in consulting</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Kevin stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Kevin's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Kevin most excited about his present and future</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The virtue of diversity of different types of coders</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Kevin likes to geek out</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Being a worker in the domain of your software and/or observing workers</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Kevin's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Kevin</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Farewell</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <a href="http://solutionwave.net/">SolutionWave - Kevin's business website<br></a><a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=1118">Dan North on the conflict between quality and emotional attachment</a> - the developer's dilemma - particularly addressed at the 19:04 mark </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Kevin's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400082471/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software - Scott Rosenberg</a></li> </ul> </div> <h6>Kevin's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Get to the root of the problem beneath the surface of a request</li> <li>Address and ship the Minimum Viable Product</li> <li>Don't be afraid to be wrong- "strong opinions weakly held"</li> </ol>
