Real. Technical. Midwest.

Over the years, the number of enterprise platforms has grown exponentially.  While these platforms offer turnkey solutions that can rapidly enable legitimate business value and lower build costs, they may not be the answer to all your problems. They might make things worse.  Today on Real Technical Midwest, Jason Montague, Patrick Gaynor and Neal Sample are talking platform development.Support the show

By now you have likely heard about ChatGPT.  Listen to the guys discuss the fundamentals of the technology, what they are excited about and even slightly nervous about, and whether they feel Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI in this current iteration of ChatGPT is worth the hype!Support the show

Well, it's closing in on the end of 2022, and you know what that means?Yep...  It's Year-End Review Season!Listen to Jason, Neal, and Patrick discuss the YE review process, what's valuable, what might just be terrible, and ways to improve the process and help your employees learn (and thrive) in 2023.Support the show

Have you heard the well known saying in psychology that, “Everyone suffers from cognitive bias…even those that are aware of cognitive bias”?  Well, we believe it's true. Today Neal and Jason discuss the myriad of cognitive biases in tech, which ones to pay closest attention to, and how to minimize the deleterious effects of allowing them to go unmanaged, or worse, unnoticed. Support the show

In this episode of Real. Technical. Midwest.  @Jason Montague, @Neal Sample, and @Patrick Gaynor discuss the importance of building high-performing teams, how to do it, and a few secrets of the best teams they've worked with along the way. Support the show

Have you heard, "You can't improve what you can't measure" or "You are what you measure"?  Do you agree?  If so, why is it so challenging to use them?  If you have issues infusing metrics and measures into your teams or organizations, you are not alone, and there's good news....this episode is for you!On this episode or Real. Technical. Midwest., Jason Montague, Neal Sample, and Patrick Gaynor tackle the beloved (and dreaded) metrics.  We discuss metric examples, which might help, and why context is vital.  We then share where many leaders run into trouble with metric anti-patterns, unintended consequences, how metrics are easily gamed, and how to avoid demotivating your teams.Take a listen and let us know what you think!Support the show

Today we speak with our very own Neal Sample on his time learning in the Data Group at Stanford, post-doc work with the CIA, building data-centric startups in Silicon Valley, and helping foster the development of cutting-edge big data tools like Hadoop.  Neal has had a front-row seat to the biggest technology revolution of our lifetime and (though he won't say it!) he's also helped shape it.  Come with us as we uncover important insights in data and analytics and all that goes with it.Support the show

Jim Benson, Shingo Prize winner has released a new book, The Collaboration Equation.  In today's conversation, we breakdown where most organization's lean and agile transformations stall and why most of your problems are people problems.  Pull your inner andon cord and lets get aligned!!!Support the show

In today's episode we think that it's time for us to revisit the cloud.  I think we should ask ourselves the questions:Should everything go in the cloud?Should nothing go in the cloud? What have we been surprised at?What's really been liberating and powerful and accelerating? What didn't live up to the hype? What are some of the myths of the cloud that have been burst? And what are some of the things that maybe were promises that are undelivered? So today…we're talkin' Cloud, y'all!Support the show

In this episode of Real. Technical. Midwest., the hosts discuss the myth of the 10x developer.  Does this person exist?  If so, what are the hallmarks of a 10x Dev?  Should you hire them no matter what your context?Find out in this installment of Real. Technical. Midwest.Support the show

In today's episode, Jason and Neal discuss the idea of kicking off a new show!  They discuss why they want to start a Technology & Leadership podcast, primarily focused on the Great Midwest.   They also share the types of topics in the crosshairs, potential formats, and the outcomes they intend to create.  Ultimately they both agree this show needs to be unapologetically Technical, and intentionally Real.  Welcome to Real. Technical. Midwest.Support the show