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Bart Geyskens x How do you implement Agile?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2022 71:52


Bart Geyskens, among other things, is an Agile Coach. In this episode he explains how one should implement agile in their organisation.

Balach Hussain x Company culture and enjoying work

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2021 85:50


Balach is an Agile Coach and a tech startup founder. He explains to us what companies can do to foster a culture that creates happier employees, but also discusses what it means to actually enjoy your work and life.

Wassim Essebane x Challenges of being a student/entrepreneur

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2021 58:57


Wassim is a university student but also an entrepreneur. His startup (MeetConor) is aimed to help other entrepreneurs with their startups. That's a lot of "entrepreneuring" for somebody who is also pursuing two master degrees at the same time!

Ben Bastiaensen x Teaching IT to children and teenagers in schools

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 55:14


For over 20 years Ben Bastiaensen has taught children and teenagers IT. He is a high-school teacher in the technical track of the Belgian education system, but he is also a Future Classroom Lab Ambassador at the European Schoolnet.

What is QA?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 52:36


Come listen to a QA manager and a Test & Support Lead explain what Quality Assurance is, why it is important and more importantly, why it is the responsibility of everyone in an organisation.

Technology and Social Life

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 81:11


Med and Erol discuss the tremendous impact of modern technology on social life. Especially the internet and the always-connected smartphones have had a profound impact on our day-to-day lives. Of course this raises questions and concerns.

Julien Terwagne x Freelance developer turned recruiter

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2021 69:03


Julien Terwagne is a software architect at AXA as a freelancer. However, unlike most freelancers, he also decided to start a business as an IT recruiter! Julien explains to us how he got the idea, why he decided to act on it and how he does it!

Emre Sevinç x AI today: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2021 83:22


Emre Sevinç, CTO of TM-Data ICT, takes us for a deep-dive into the vast ocean that is Artificial Intelligence. Modern AI is amazing and improves our lives, but why does it fail in what sometimes appear to be the simplest of tasks?

The IT recruiter vs freelancer debate.

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2021 79:14


Are IT recruiters monsters? Are IT freelancer spoiled little brats? Find out in this episode of the Lazy People Podcast, where recruiter Greg Medland and freelancer Lieven Doclo take off the gloves, ask the hard questions, and deliver even harder answers.

Luna Vanderispaillie x Let's talk about GDPR

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021 58:54


Luna is Legal Counsel and Data Protection Officer at Unifly. Together with her, we try to understand what GDPR is trying to achieve and what is so good about it.

Maura Declercq-Mindrila x Empowering Women in Tech

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2021 64:02


Maura Declercq-Mindrila explains what it means to empower women in the technology industry.

Miguel Fernandez x Product Teams

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2021 55:41


Miguel Fernandez, product owner (PSPO II + ...), asks a simple question: what makes a good product team? To be able to answer this, one needs to know what a product team is (or what a non-product team is).

Jona Apelbaum x Digital Transformation Expert

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2021 59:03


Jona Apelbaum (HashiCorp) does not fear jumping out of airplanes (he does it for fun). Nor does he fear taking critical systems into production. Jona explains to us what his job as Digital Transformation Expert entails.

Nelson Dheedene x Parkd - Concar

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2021 53:55


Nelson Dheedene explains how his company Parkd in order to adapt to the Belgian market, reimagined itself and ended up spearheading a new trend, providing services in multiple continents.

Ken Bonny x Trunk Based Development

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 63:39


Together with Ken Bonny, seasoned .Net developer, we explore the advantages and overheads of Trunk Based Development. TBD is a less commonly used git strategy that revolves around having a single development/release branch.

Nesrin Dinc x Social Media Manager

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2021 64:56


Nesrin Dinc is a social media manager for the Vooruit fraction in Ghent city. Yes, this does mean she gets paid to be on Facebook all day. But that's like saying a photographer gets paid to press a button on the camera.

Kenneth Cools x Turning the Tables Vol. I

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 51:30


Kenneth, a bio engineer/illustrator with many years of experience in software, turns the tables on Med and Erol. In this episode, where Kenneth is the guest-host, he asks the questions and interviews our regular hosts!

Lieven Doclo x Impostor Syndrome

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2021 44:54


Lieven Doclo, software architect at Barco discusses the phenomenon known as the Impostor Syndrome, which has people doubting their own skills and accomplishments, and leaves them fearing to be exposed as an impostor by their peers.

Stijn Anthoni x Design

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2021 55:08


Stijn Anthoni started "fiddling" in photoshop and designing websites twenty years ago and has not stopped. He has been a professional graphics designer for over a decade.

Joren Verspeelt x ABC's of Talent Retention

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021 65:32


Joren is an IT consultant at Exellys, which allows him to work as a software developer on many projects with various clients. Joren focuses on the problem of talent retention within IT companies. Why are well-paying and cushy jobs being abandoned?

Kevin Dendievel x freelance Digital Designer

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2021 67:01


Kevin Dendievel describes himself as a Digital Designer. He feels this title describes everything he does without confusing people, because Digital Designer does many different types of designing: UI, UX, web, graphics, ...

Tom Laenen x (Amateur) Game Development

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2021 55:29


Tom is an amateur game developer. Amateurs does not mean he is a bad developer (quite the opposite is true, actually), but that he does it out of love instead of for money. On the other hand, Tom is a professional "regular" software developer.

Greg Medland x IT recruiter

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 78:37


Greg is an IT recruiter with many years of experience in the Benelux and wider Europe. He tells us the story of IT recruitment from the perspective of the recruiter. According to him, proper recruiting is not the easy and sleazy job some say it is.

What exactly is a "senior" developer?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2021 46:42


An episode that raises more questions than answers! What is the yardstick to measure the seniority of a software developer? What are junior, medior, and senior developers? Can these things be quantified and defined? Are they even worth asking?

Kenny Van Hoylandt x DevOps is not a job title

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2021 41:58


Kenny Van Hoylandt explains why it's wrong to think of DevOps as a specific role. DevOps, he argues, is about people, processes and tools (&collaboration), less so about automation and infrastructure, although these are ways in which DevOps is practiced

Bart Geyskens x Agile Coach: What does Agile actually mean?

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2021 54:37


Bart Geyskens, Agile Coach among other things, helps us to understand what Agile really means (spoiler: it's very much about the customer!). What is Scrum? Which problems does Agile try to solve? Does everyone need to be Agile?

Right to Repair?

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 50:19


What does Right to Repair mean for consumer electronics? Should a consumer be able to get their devices fixed at third-party repair shop and is it fair for manufacturers to prevent that? Is it even possible to repair modern electronics?

Big Tech and Political Power

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2021 62:46


A few weeks ago, Twitter trumped the POTUS, arguably the most powerful elected official in the world. Although this move was hailed as the right thing to do by many...

Ersan Urganci - Enterprise IT at Ahrend

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2021 47:52


Ersan hates computers. He is also an IT service desk coordinator and Microsoft 365 engineer at Ahrend. This means he keeps "the lights on" for over 1.500 people while also transitioning the company into the cloud with Microsoft tools. According to Ersan,

(Digital) Distractions While Working

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2021 40:07


How do you deal with notifications and other possible distractions while working? Working from home has changed the nature of interruptions, but is a little bit of (the right kind of) distraction such a bad thing?

Kris Hofmans - Why do most software projects suck?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 73:25


Seasoned developer Kris Hofmans joins us to discuss why it is that many (or is it most?) software projects suck. We touch on topics such as budgets, (in)competencies, accountability, documentation, testing (or the lack thereof!).

WFH?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 22:22


Med and Erol discuss what Work From Home (WFH) during Corona lockdowns means for work/life balance, something that is already an iffy topic for people in IT.

Maxim Baele - Security Architect in SATCOM industry

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 53:33


Maxim works as a Security Architect at a Satellite Communications company. We listen to his take on product security, as well as security in general (including your home!).

What's up with WhatsApp?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 47:42


Recently, following the announcement of some policy changes, people seem to be leaving WhatsApp in droves. Is this the right thing to do? Why and which alternatives are there?

Jasper Briers and MyFact

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2021 47:34


Jasper Briers is the owner of MyFact, an invoicing application. Although he had no formal education as a software developer, Jasper managed not only to create a solution from scratch, but also to turn it into a successful product company.

Apple M1 and Xamarin. It's M1agic!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021 37:24


Med took the M1 on a Xamarin developer test drive... and returned it. He explains why.

Hello World, Hello Med!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2021 24:50


Get to know Med Ziane, senior software developer and one of thoe show's hosts.

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