Episode 531: Shallow feedback and my coworker is a huge sloperator
Soft Skills Engineering

Episode 531: Shallow feedback and my coworker is a huge sloperator

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202633 min

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Listener Jame ain’t no dance asks,! Hey Space Therapists, I am a consultant that helps big companies to fix all kind of stuff. It’s ridiculous how many different hats I wear. One day I’m the interim PM, the other day I am telling SAP devs how to use a coding agent, next day I gather stakeholder requirements for a customer self service portal. I do all of these tasks on a fairly shallow level and all of that work is happening without much coordi...

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It takes more than becoming a subversion, version control hipster, to be a great software engineer. This is episode 531 of the Soft Skills Engineering podcast, where I'm your host, Jameson Dance. I'm your host, Dave Smith.

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Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice show about all of the non-technical things that go into the technical field of software development, like going back to the old ways, the tools that really lasted, you know, like subversion. What was before subversion?

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Was that like? CVS. Yeah, CVS. I never used that one.

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