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At Acima, we have a large software development team. We wanted to be able to share with the community things we have learned about the development process.We'll share some tech specifics (we do Ruby, Kotlin, Javascript, and Haskell), but also talk a lot about mentoring,…
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Episode 108: Pressure and Burnout (opens the original)
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This time on the Acima Development Podcast, Mike opens with Nitinol, the nickel-titanium alloy developed at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory that can be bent far out of shape and spring back more or less indefinitely. NASA has prototyped woven Nitinol mesh wheels for future rovers, which would spare them the battered look of Curiosity's wheels after a decade on Martian rock. Mike uses the alloy as the frame for the episode's real subject, which is pressure. Pressure at work is not optional, and in
Episode 107: Agile vs Waterfall (opens the original)
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On this episode of the Acima Development podcast, Mike hosts a conversation about software development life cycle methodologies, opening with the line usually attributed to Mike Tyson: everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. He illustrates it with a day from about 20 years ago in the suburbs of Chicago, when he and his wife planned to collect a free piano from an elementary school and a bunk bed with a slide from a seller farther south. The U-Haul turned out to be an hour away
Episode 106: Dealing with Change (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Acima Development Podcast, the team digs into what happens to engineers when the org chart shifts underneath them. The timing is deliberate: Acima recently consolidated teams and realigned around value streams, the structure recommended in Team Topologies. Mike opens with sleep. After five years of falling asleep next to his youngest son, on the floor as often as the bed, he can now drop off anywhere. A habit he had held since infancy turned out to be trainable once he had
Episode 105: Time Management (opens the original)
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On this episode of the Acima Development Podcast, Mike opens with military surgeons as his model for triage, doctors who decide fast and accept ugly outcomes because the only goal that matters is getting the patient home. He uses that to introduce time management, and Will immediately splits the problem in two, since a downed server and a rough quarter call for very different responses. In a real emergency Will cuts off limbs to save the body. He kills the API that is taking the server down, fla
Episode 104: Job Hunting in Tech (opens the original)
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This episode of the Acima Development Podcast tackles how job seekers, especially new grads, should present themselves to employers. Mike opens with an analogy comparing modern hiring to online dating: both have shifted from relationship-based filtering to app-driven processes that strip away the context you'd normally get from a trusted network. Interns Vivian and Jordan share their recent experiences, with Vivian noting that her degree, hard classes, and high GPA did almost nothing to land int
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