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Join Lori Asburry, Andrea Giometti, Maryam Norouzi and Lori Williams - Four former co-workers in the technology industry with very different perspectives, backgrounds, experiences and opinions! We have awesome friends, colleagues and kids so expect some of them(you?) to appear as well! For more information about us, the podcasts and supporting playbooks check out our website at https://realtechreallife.com. Note: Opinions are our own!
Episodes
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
#13 - Chris Barbin Interview
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Chris Barbin, Former CEO and co-Founder of Appirio, Venture Capitalist & Tequila Master - joins the RTRL team for an interview. We had a blast asking him about everything from how his career got started, to his thoughts on the Appirio journey, to what he is doing now!
Check us out on facebook, twitter (@realtechrl) and at www.realtechreallife.com
Friday Sep 13, 2019
#12 - Women in Technology & Leadership
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
In this episode we share our thoughts on Women in Technology & Leadership - quite a loaded topic these days! We have an honest conversation about why it matters, whether progress has been made and what we have seen organizations do to help.
Check us out on facebook, twitter (@realtechrl) and at www.realtechreallife.com
Friday Aug 23, 2019
#11 Interview with Mike Epner
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
An interview with Mike Epner, Guru of Customer Delivery Operations, Professional Services and how to build amazing teams. We talk about how he got into the business, how he approaches building leadership teams and a form of photography that he invented! (*originally recorded in August 2017)
You can find Mike's photography at www.michaelepner.com
You can find the RTRL Playbooks , best practices and list of recommendations at our website - https://realtechreallife.com
Friday Aug 09, 2019
#10 Update from the RTRL crew after their hiatus
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
#9 Closing Projects Successfully
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
A discussion on how to manage project closure successfully. This was originally recorded in 2017 and closes out our Services Lifecycles Series. Stay tuned for brand new episodes in August!
You can find our Project Mgmt Playbook and other best practices at our website - https://realtechreallife.com
Friday Jun 07, 2019
#8 Managing a Project
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
A discussion on how to manage projects – and how to do status reports in Haiku!!
You can find our Project Mgmt Playbook at our website - https://realtechreallife.com
Friday Jun 07, 2019
#7 Staffing Projects
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
People are the product of services firms – we talk about how to best staff the on projects.
You can find our Staffing Projects Playbook and other info at our website - https://realtechreallife.com.
Friday Jun 07, 2019
#6 Scoping
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
You can find more detailed Show Notes and the Playbook for this episode at our website - https://realtechreallife.com.
A fun and hopefully insightful discussion about how to think about and approach scoping software implementation and development projects!
Lightening Round & Recommendations:
Documentaries / Movies
- Lori A – Young At Heart – A 2009 documentary based on a group of seniors (average age 81) that sing classic and current rock covers. Sweet and sad with good music.
- Andrea – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. She laughed so hard her son told her to be quiet.
- LoriW – Gleeson – Documentary about a New Orleans Saint football player who filmed his life from the time he finds out he has ALS as the diseases’ journey parallel the like of his newborn son. Equal parts informational, sad, funny – and inspiring.
- Maryam – Lion– A boy from India that gets lost from his village and ends up adopted in Australia. Though he doesn’t even know the name of his home village the story takes us through his effort to find his original family.
Friday Jun 07, 2019
#5 Mindfulness In the Workplace
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
#4 Let's talk Change Orders
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
You can find more detailed Show Notes and the Playbook for this episode at our website - https://realtechreallife.com.
What About Change Orders / Project extensions?
How do SI’s approach CO’s scope/budget?
How soon should you know about it and how formal should the notification be?
Should you allow the SI to work at risk?
With agile projects how do you draw a firm functionality line?
If you inherited a project budget off the rails where would you start to unravel it?
Lightening Round & Recommendations
How Do You Leave It At Work? This is a hard one and something most have to continually work at – as evidenced by the “free for all” conversation while discussing it.
Team Building - How do you bond a team to prepare them for potential tough times? (Yes, we talk about using Haiku's to help.
TV Shows
- Maryam – This Is Us – Binge-worthy and the perfect mix of funny and emotional with multiple story lines so it appeals to to all types of people. Special shout out to Chris Bell who once threatened to de-friend her if a character died, because she sucked him into the show addiction with her.
- Andrea – Big Bang Theory – smart, funny and good for all ages and guaranteed to be showing on a channel somewhere in the world 24 hours a day. Apparently her family gave her the Big Bang Theory Game for Mother’s Day. No words….
- LoriA – Grace & Frankie – Again, smart and funny and also innovative in that it treats over 70 women like real people. Their new business venture alone is worth watching for. (Plus it has the always amazing Lily Tomlin and we spend a few minutes in awe of how amazing Jane Fonda looks at 79)
- LoriW – Netflix Chef’s Table series – There are 3 seasons and hey take some of the best chefs at the best restaurants around the world and tell their story. Not only is the food amazing, but the stories are so compelling. Kind of like This Is Us, but with better food.