Bounded Context

Eric Cunningham bridges the divide between business and technology to design and implement solutions that enable rapid, sustainable growth for companies conducting business on a global scale. From customer-facing to back-end environments, he creates IT strategies, development roadmaps, and service architectures that support business goals and contributes to corporate value creation. When it comes to engineering and architecture, Eric embraces the power of cloud-native computing and living in a non-datacenter world.

Ryan and Eric discuss cloud migration architecture patterns, iterative development with guardrails, engineering feedback loops, blockchain, quantum computing, serverless, batch processes, and how to establish and maintain domain expertise in the age of information.

Ace is a listener, mediator, guide, and speaker with the ability to read an audience - in person or digitally - and draw from them their toughest questions, greatest vulnerabilities, and boldest ideas. An instinctive bridge-builder, he brings intellectual openness and deploys the most sophisticated techniques to ensure parties truly hear each other and stretch their creative minds to find innovative solutions to some of the world’s most intractable challenges.

Ryan and Ace discuss why an elegant solution to the wrong problem is an elegant solution to the wrong problem; The Five Why’s; the anatomy of a good idea; 3 unique ideation methods: brainwriting, worst idea, other people’s shoes; product-side vs. human-side of solution testing; and control what you can control and influence the variables. Plus, Ace shares his biggest influences and lessons learned along the way. Get ready to laugh and be inspired.

How do we define critical thinking? Apply it? Learn it? Can we teach students and adults how to think more critically? In Episode 27, Dave Carillo joins Ryan Shriver to answer these questions and so much more. 

Dave is Co-Founder of one of the country’s first academic offices devoted solely to studying critical thinking and raising critical thinking outcomes. He served as the lead administrator of the Interdisciplinary Writing and Reasoning Portfolio, has been published by The Hill, and is a critical thinking subject matter expert (SME) for the U.S. military. Dave lives in West Hartford, CT with his wife and two children.

Mathias Verraes runs a boutique consultancy that advises organizations on designing and modeling software for complex environments, including architecture, analysis, testing, and refactoring “unmaintainable” systems. He has worked with clients in Finance, Government, Supply Chain, Mobility, Energy, E-Commerce, and more. He teaches Domain-Driven Design courses and curates the DDD Europe conference. When he’s at home in Kortrijk, Belgium, he helps his two sons build crazy Lego contraptions. 

Brandon Linton is passionate about helping teams create amazing customer experiences through cloud architecture, lean software development, and product discovery. He specializes in the principles and practices that make for continuous delivery and software platforms that drive innovation.

Episode 25 covers Enterprise Architecture; helping teams achieve speed, quality, and better culture through living out DevOps principles; and so much more. 

Anne-Jeanette LeBell has over 25 years of proven success in software engineering and architecture. She cofounded BankShift, a mobile and web application to help you manage money, see all your assets in one place, make payments, shuffle money around, and accomplish what you need to do with your accounts. 

This episode covers the emergence of open banking, the motivation behind BankShift, starting a business from the ground up, approaching gender stereotypes, how empathy and uncomfortable conversations can yield change, and so much more.

Jai has dedicated her entire career to managing and building technical products from a non-technical perspective. She’s an AWS product maven and an Agile pro who's spent over a decade partnering with like-minded practitioners to introduce CI/CD practices, cloud-native solutions, and deliver products that drive developers further up the value line. Jai leads the product practice in Global Digital Services, where customer point of view and the developer experience are everything—yet she still wants to be an astronaut.

Leah Cunningham is a technology professional with over twenty years of experience building, leading, and coaching teams to maximize value, delivery, and quality. She joins Ryan Shriver for EP 21. They cover chaos engineering, the benefits of task conflict, best practices for managing teams, acknowledging fallibility in leadership roles, the importance of playing > planning, and so much more.

Is it possible to switch to The Cloud, in a way that is cost-effective and efficient? Wes North helps businesses evaluate risks and leverage their automated potential. In his interview with Ryan Shriver, he dives into this question and the future of technology operations— plus so much more!

Tom Illmensee is a product strategist, UX designer and researcher, startup coach, entrepreneur, music-maker, improviser, truth-seeker, and community organizer based in Richmond, VA. He is a Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie, a digital innovation studio, and Co-Founder and CEO of Orbital Music Park, an inclusive community and creative space for music-makers. 

Tom joins Ryan Shriver for Bounded Context EP 19 and sheds light on the question, how do we honor our time with others? 

Will the term “serverless” last? David Anderson joins Ryan Shriver for Episode 18 of Bounded Context to unpack this question and many more. If you’re curious about the Serverless First mindset or cutting costs on your digital journey, this interview is for you!

Nick Tune is all about prioritizing outcomes and elevating the product mindset. He joins Ryan Shriver to unpack building autonomous teams and building the RIGHT thing VS. building the thing RIGHT.

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Productivity Engineering is at the forefront of the DevOps movement, resembling "bounded context" principles — assess the problem, identify the end-goal, gain alignment, build a framework for how to get there, and push individual teams towards objectives quickly and efficiently. Andrew Glover, Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix, breaks down the core concept with examples, experiences, and influences along the way.

Ryan reconnects with Tom Gilb— author, teacher, consultant, methods inventor, and Senior Partner at GILB.com. They met at a conference in London in 2005 and stayed sharing tips, trends, changes, revelations, and pearls of wisdom in the world of problem-solving. Plus: FREE digital copies of Tom's best-selling books.

In episode 13 of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver speaks with Dr. Miriam Friedel about technical vs. strategic problem-solving, leveraging machine learning to improve human processes, and how boots pair nicely with software engineering.

Decisions are not one-and-done; they’re experiments that need to be run for a while. In Episode 12 of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver meets with Lyssa Adkins, AGILE and Leadership Coach, to discuss the art of decision-making.

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What do we do with the tremendous amount of data in the world today? Enter data privacy and data privacy laws. In episode 11, Ryan Shriver meets with Cathy Scerbo, VP, Chief Information Officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Listen as they confront the world’s data explosion and share how the technology community is responsible for protecting users' privacy rights.

Ryan Shriver catches up with Casey Lee — CTO of Gaggle, a tech company that helps ensure the safety and well-being of students.

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Ryan Shiver meets with Gabrielle Benefield — author, speaker, innovator, and the founder of MobiusLoop. They exchange stories, discuss industry influencers, and give advice about sharing ideas with the world.

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