Charles Maxwood

We've been talking about basically getting more done. I'm kind of curious as we dive in. First, do you want to just give a little bit more of an introduction? I kind of glossed over all the cool stuff you're doing at software.com and all the tools that you provide to people and things like that, as well as the research that you're doing on productivity.

We've been talking about basically getting more done. I'm kind of curious as we dive in. First, do you want to just give a little bit more of an introduction? I kind of glossed over all the cool stuff you're doing at software.com and all the tools that you provide to people and things like that, as well as the research that you're doing on productivity.

But yeah, you want to just give us the quick elevator pitch and then we can dive in? Sure. Yeah.

But yeah, you want to just give us the quick elevator pitch and then we can dive in? Sure. Yeah.

Right. And like I said, you know, we had you on Adventures in DevOps. We had you on, I can't remember which of the other shows we talked to you on, but most of those conversations kind of went the same kinds of ways. I'm a little curious as we dive into this with Ruby Rogues, are there things that we didn't get to in the other shows that we could talk about here?

Right. And like I said, you know, we had you on Adventures in DevOps. We had you on, I can't remember which of the other shows we talked to you on, but most of those conversations kind of went the same kinds of ways. I'm a little curious as we dive into this with Ruby Rogues, are there things that we didn't get to in the other shows that we could talk about here?

And then maybe we can circle back around to kind of the big ideas that we got to on the other shows that are going to help folks.

And then maybe we can circle back around to kind of the big ideas that we got to on the other shows that are going to help folks.

He just had me at Emac Spotify. Just saying. Control X, control play. But yeah, whatever. I do have to say though that, I mean, it's interesting, right? These are all things that you measure or don't measure. I also just want to back up to the kind of the team stats, right? Because there are a couple of things. One is that my team, we pair or mob everything.

He just had me at Emac Spotify. Just saying. Control X, control play. But yeah, whatever. I do have to say though that, I mean, it's interesting, right? These are all things that you measure or don't measure. I also just want to back up to the kind of the team stats, right? Because there are a couple of things. One is that my team, we pair or mob everything.

And so measuring that kind of productivity, I may not be the person who's actually even in the editor, right? I may be...

And so measuring that kind of productivity, I may not be the person who's actually even in the editor, right? I may be...

participating over the call or pushing you know i may put the pr together but none of the commits are actually commits that came off of my machine sounds like things like that well maybe it could be but my point is is that by measuring the velocity of the team or measuring the output of the team measuring The team as a whole, if I'm out for a week, they can see what the impact is, right?

participating over the call or pushing you know i may put the pr together but none of the commits are actually commits that came off of my machine sounds like things like that well maybe it could be but my point is is that by measuring the velocity of the team or measuring the output of the team measuring The team as a whole, if I'm out for a week, they can see what the impact is, right?

Or somebody else is out for the week, they can see what the impact is, even if they're not seeing specifically, oh, there are fewer commits by Chuck or fewer commits by one of the other guys, right? Yeah.

Or somebody else is out for the week, they can see what the impact is, even if they're not seeing specifically, oh, there are fewer commits by Chuck or fewer commits by one of the other guys, right? Yeah.

Well, I've been on teams where we didn't pair, right? We didn't pair, we didn't mob. We just do the work, but we were still collaborating, collaborating, collaborative dating, whatever. We were still talking to each other about what we were working on. We were still, hey, I'm stuck on this. Can you help me out? Hey, how does this go together so that I can integrate with it?

Well, I've been on teams where we didn't pair, right? We didn't pair, we didn't mob. We just do the work, but we were still collaborating, collaborating, collaborative dating, whatever. We were still talking to each other about what we were working on. We were still, hey, I'm stuck on this. Can you help me out? Hey, how does this go together so that I can integrate with it?

Hey, how does this kind of get integrated on CI? How is this going to come together when we deploy it? Hey, you know, how does this work? Hey, do you know a good algorithm to solve this particular problem? And so there's always going to be interplay between the members of the team, whether you have them sitting together or on a Zoom or... Teams or Skype call.

Hey, how does this kind of get integrated on CI? How is this going to come together when we deploy it? Hey, you know, how does this work? Hey, do you know a good algorithm to solve this particular problem? And so there's always going to be interplay between the members of the team, whether you have them sitting together or on a Zoom or... Teams or Skype call.