MovingFast Tech

Are you a technology leader looking to boost your customer satisfaction rates? Before you jump in with a solution, consider active listening. Engaging with customers to truly understand their needs and issues can offer a broader perspective and lead you to better solutions and products. 

We spoke with Dr. Erica Noll Webb, the senior research manager at Docker. Docker is a leading platform designed to help developers build, share, and run modern applications.

Dr. Webb shared her perspective on the importance of customer-centric innovation and other timely topics related to her work, including: 

- How early-stage startups can use UX and research to gain insights affordably and quick

- How to personalize the user journey

- How AI is affecting UX

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Tech startups can use APIs in a variety of ways to expand their reach, improve their products and services, and increase their revenue. APIs enable startups to leverage the capabilities of other systems, services, and platforms to improve their own products and services, increase their distribution and revenue, and expand their ecosystem.

This MovingFast Tech episode features Chris Driscol, VP of Engineering at Commercial Tribe, delving into a topic that impacts everyone working in software development: tech debt.

Mr. Driscol, a computer scientist with a background in full-stack development, has been leading product development teams for the past 6 years. He explains the specifics of technical debt, using financial debt as a jumping-off point to help explain the concept of technical debt. He also covers the 4 types of tech debt, innovative practices when it comes to developing features vs. dealing with tech debt, navigating difficult tech debt conversations effectively with management, and more.

What improves development velocity for engineering teams - and why is this an important factor to consider? Velocity is the speed of something in a given direction - and development velocity is the speed of development in the direction of creating something of value. In this Moving Fast Tech Podcast, we sat down with serial entrepreneur and technology leader Rob Pinna, VP of Product and Engineering at Serenity App, Inc., to understand how to boost velocity for product and development teams.

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This episode features Kathy Keating, CTO of TextUs, one of the fastest growing business communications and texting companies, worldwide.

Ms. Keating, an experienced CTO and previous startup founder, discusses the challenges of starting up, scaling a technology platform, and staying focused on your IP. She also talks about the benefits of texting in business communications, how TextUs built their platform for text deliverability, how to leverage products for efficient DevOps processes, COVID-19's impact on business transactions, working well with a remote team, and more.

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In this podcast, we sat down with Greg Larson, the Senior VP of Engineering at Divvy Pay, the leading spend and expense management platform for business.

Mr. Larson discussed how fast-moving technology affects his business, including scalability, cloud computing, the best programming languages, and how to be technologically progressive without alienating people.

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In this podcast, we had the opportunity to speak with Sha Ma, Vice President of Engineering at GitHub, the world's leading software development platform. Ms. Ma delves into today's fast-moving,  cutting-edge technology, including serverless computing, DevOps, and operations at scale - and how to prepare for these new developments. 

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In this podcast, we interview Lasse Andresen and talk about fast-moving technology. Lasse is the former CTO of ForgeRock, the fastest-growing digital identity management provider in the world. ForgeRock is an industry innovator at the forefront of technology that’s moving fast.

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