Lazy People Podcast

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

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 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!

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.

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.

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 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, 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?

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 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 explains what it means to empower women in the technology industry.

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 (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 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.

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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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, 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?

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?

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 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,

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?

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!).

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 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!).

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 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.

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

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