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English Edition: I want to come back to agile development practices with my guest Dave Thomas, or Pragmatic Dave as he is also known in the trade. Dave is one of the authors of the manifesto for agile development - and we talk about what has become of the aims and aspirations of agile development since the manifesto's publication in 2001. Links: https://agilemanifesto.org the manifesto of agile software development https://pragdave.me/ Dave's home page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M Agile is dead by Dave Thomas - YouTube Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Are you tired of feeling like just another cog in the legal machine? Ready to break free from the grind and rev up your law firm? Join me as I sit down with Dave Thomas, SVP of Growth and Business Development at Law Tigers—the heavyweight champion of motorcycle law. In this episode, we’re tearing down the traditional marketing playbook and hitting the gas on community-driven strategies that actually work. Dave spills the secrets behind how Law Tigers has transformed legal marketing by building genuine connections with motorcycle riders. Forget the stale pitches—this is about safety, authenticity, and creating trust that goes way beyond the courtroom. What You’ll Learn: Community First: Discover how Law Tigers uses grassroots marketing to forge emotional bonds with riders. It’s not just about snagging clients; it’s about making a real impact in their lives. Niche Marketing Mastery: Learn why targeting specific rider demographics is a game-changer. Dave reveals how focused strategies can make your brand resonate like never before. Small Gestures, Big Impact: Find out how simple acts—like offering free rider benefit kits—can create lasting relationships and elevate your brand’s credibility. Metrics that Matter: Get the lowdown on setting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that actually drive results. Dave emphasizes why measuring success is crucial for your firm’s growth. Networking Gold: Hear why attending events like the Motorcycle Accident Summit can skyrocket your law firm’s visibility and connections. Are you ready to shift gears and take control of your future? Tune in for bold insights that will help you build a law firm that reflects your values and vision. Let’s ride together toward a life beyond the briefs! Connect with Dave Thomas: Want to dive deeper into Dave's world? Visit lawtigers.com for consumer insights or check out lawtigersmarketing.com to see their innovative marketing strategies in action. Got questions? Shoot him an email at dave@lawtigers.com —he’s all ears and ready to chat about shaking up legal marketing! Hit play now and get ready to transform your approach to legal marketing! ____________________________________ Brian Glass is a nationally recognized personal injury lawyer in Fairfax , Virginia. He is passionate about living a life of his own design and looking for answers to solutions outside of the legal field. This podcast is his effort to share that passion with others. Want to connect with Brian? Follow Brian on Instagram: @ thebrianglass Connect on LinkedIn

Law Tigers' Senior Vice President of Growth and Business Development, Dave Thomas joins us in this LAWsome episode. Listen in as Dave and Tanner discuss diversifying marketing strategies, brand awareness, measuring results, and finding the right balance for your law firm. Many law firms struggle with the mindset that marketing is an expense that should yield immediate results. Explore the importance of viewing marketing as a scalable investment that can be perfected over time. Learn how working with a marketing agency can help law firms assess their current strategies and build comprehensive plans for the future. Dave discusses traditional mass media marketing as well as the importance of grassroots marketing techniques. Learn how to track your results and build follow ups into your process. Dave also speaks on being strategic in not only your placements of advertising, but media buying topics like the time of year you purchase billboards. Connect with Dave on his LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-l-thomas-mba-715b2921/ and by visiting https://lawtigers.com/ You can also catch him at the Motorcycle Accident Summit that's taking place next year, March 5th through the 7th at the Conrad Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The summit is run in tandem with National Trial Lawyers. TLDR: Partnering with a marketing agency can help law firms refine strategies and create comprehensive marketing plans. Grassroots and traditional mass media marketing play key roles in a firm's overall strategy. Tracking results is essential for success.

There are three groups of people around every legacy system - those who are stuck with it, those who don't want to be with it, and those who love it and see its value. How do we reconcile these three opinions and rewrite legacy code without completely replacing it? Today we talk with Dave Thomas . Dave is an all-around player in the software industry with vast experience as an executive, investor, board member, consultant, architect, and engineer. He is Chairman of Bedarra Corp, which provides consulting on technology and business strategy for emerging technology, products, and services. He tells us what the drivers of legacy innovations are, why he thinks refactoring is a "little lie" of the modern software industry, and how to approach modifications in less-than-ideal situations. When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Dave on LinkedIn and visit his website at www.davethomas.net . Mentioned in this episode: Dave Thomas on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidathomas/ Dave’s website at https://www.davethomas.net/index.html Badera Corporation at https://www.bedarra.com/

In this captivating episode of the Sea Captain Way Podcast, Greg and Phil welcome Dave Thomas, a Founding Partner at Sea Captain Analytics and a Wealth Management Advisor at Northwestern Mutual. As they embark on a new partnership, Dave and Phil delve into the world of analytics-driven wealth management and share their vision for energizing top performers to achieve peak performance. Learn how analytics can transform your wealth management approach and strengthen client relationships. Discover strategies to increase revenue, refine portfolio management, and leverage automation for operational efficiency. If you're seeking to take your performance to new heights and want insights into leveraging analytics in wealth management, tune in to this episode as Dave Thomas brings his experience and expertise to the table, offering valuable strategies for success. Remember, success awaits those who dare to step beyond their comfort zone! Key Points: ∙ Dave, Phil and Greg discuss strategies to increase revenue, refine portfolio management, and leverage automation for operational efficiency. ∙ Phil and Dave collaborated for 18 months to build the technology for Sea Captain Analytics. ∙ Sea Captain Analytics is a tool that allows Advisors to have more time to focus on things like portfolio management. Dave discusses the breakthrough data analytics dynamic like the “Moneyball” sabermetrics used in Major League Baseball, and how combining it with coaching can be a powerful add on. SeaCaptainCoaching.com Instagram link FB link Connect with Phil LinkedIn Connect with Greg LinkedIn Connect with David Thomas Website

GUEST BIO: Dave is a computer programmer and was an original signatory and author of The Manifesto For Agile Software Development. He has also co-authored several books, including “The Pragmatic Programmer”, and was a co-founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Dave Thomas is Phil’s guest on today’s show. He is a well-known programmer who works in numerous programming languages, in particular, Elixir, Ruby and agility. Dave is one of the original signatories and author of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Over the years, Dave has published several other books and is a trainer. Currently, he is also an Adjunct Professor at the Southern Methodist University. KEY TAKEAWAYS: (0.45) – So, Dave, can you expand on that brief introduction and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Dave says that fundamentally he is a programmer. For the past 45 years he has enjoyed coding and has done it practically every day. Most of the other things, he does really just to make a living. For example, he published more books when things crashed in the early 2000s. Even then, he spent time writing the various bits of infrastructure, he just could not stay away from the code. (3.08) – Are you still involved in the pragmatic? Dave says that about 18 months ago, with Andy’s agreement, he stepped back a bit on the day-to-day stuff. He had other things he wanted to investigate and basically did not have enough time to do so. Right now, he is almost like a Victorian gentleman scientist exploring things on his own. But, he has spent about a year shuttling from one thing to another. He is now focused again. (4.21) – Phil asks Dave to share a unique IT career tip. We work in the fastest changing industry that ever existed, so you need to keep up. You can’t know everything, but you can look at what is coming up and pick a few things that are likely to make it. Then spend a bit of time learning and researching those. (5.20) – A lot of people say my employer does not give me time to do that. Dave’s response is that is not your employer’s job. It is your career - you need to invest in yourself. If you do not, you and your skills will slowly become irrelevant as new technology replaces what you are good at. (6.11) – Dave is asked to share his worst career moment and what he learned from that experience. After 45 years, Dave has understandably had quite a few bad career moments. At least, things that felt bad at the time. But, usually he learned a lot from those situations. So, in the end, many of those experiences turned out to be positive ones. When you are working in such a malleable format it is very easy to mess things up. However, with a bit of discipline and patience, it is also very easy to fix the problem. (7.29) – Phil asks Dave what his best career moment was. Dave explained that, like most people, he has a need to create. So, when he finds his “software expressing me” he gets a lift. A great example of this is the Prestel videotext system, from the 1970s. Dave was involved in writing a front end so that people could find flight availability and book them via travel agents. One day, Dave was walking down a High Street, looked in a travel agents window and saw his software running. Seeing that brought home the fact that what he was doing really was making a difference. (9.53) – Dave explained that whenever he publishes a book, he also goes to a bookstore to see it on the shelf. Seeing a physical manifestation of your work helps you to fully appreciate what you have achieved and is very fulfilling. (11.11) – So, Dave what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers in IT in particular? For Dave the fact that in IT you are shaping the world, literally. You cannot do much, these days, without IT. We can do great things with IT, which is exciting. In the very near future our coding will become part of the fabric of life. Now we

Volume 3 Chapter 52 of the Necrocasticon gets technical on you this week as Scott and Walt talk Prog Metal with The Horror Show's Dave Thomas. Plus they get into why Scares That Care is so cool and why you should check out the 2nd Annual Horror Show Telethon

RR 317: Computer Science at University and the Future of Programming with Dave ThomasCharles Max Wood interviews Dave Thomas about the Computer Science course he's teaching at Southern Methodist University, Elixir, and the future of programming. Dave is the author and co-author of several well known programming books including Programming Ruby (also known as the PickAxe Book), Programming Elixir, and the Pragmatic Programmer. This episode starts out discussing Dave's course and Computer Science education, then veers into Elixir and the future of programming. Tune in to hear where Dave thinks the programming industry is heading next. [00:02:30] Dave's Computer Science Course at SMU Dave's advanced computer science course covers topics like source control and testing. He's been wanting to get into formal Computer Science for a while, so when he pulled back on his work at the Pragmatic Bookshelf, he approached SMU about teaching a course. He selected Advanced Application Development since he could teach pretty much whatever he wanted. The class is made up of Seniors and Master's students whose coursework primarily focused on theory, but lacked in the basics of coding as it happens "in the wild." The plan was to go in and subvert them with Elixir. All of the assignments are coding assignments and must be submitted with a pull request. Chuck recalls taking a class similar to the one that Dave describes. [00:06:22] Computer Science's focus on theory People who go into academia generally get their degrees and don't spend any time in the non-academic world. So, they don't know what's important when it comes down to nuts and bolts programming. This serves the students that stay in academia, but fails to teach the skills needed by their students. They also focus on the mathematical aspects of Computer Science and fail to show students that if they get excited about software, it can be fun. [00:09:55] This is a job where we make a difference Sometimes we do great harm. and sometimes great good. [00:10:23] How do you communicate all of these aspects of coding to the students? You can't just tell them. Mostly, Dave just tries to be enthusiastic. The teaching as it's done now is like a eulogy given by someone who doesn't know the person. Instead, Dave shows his passion for coding, tells stories, and shows how fun it is to write code. Imagine walking down the street and seeing the code you wrote being used. Dave's code was used on the satellite sent to see Haley's Comet. [00:13:04] Software as a tool for change A painter's medium is paint. Sculptors' stone. People in software don't "write" per se, but they still express themselves. This is a medium for programmers to get their thoughts out and interact with other people all over the world. We do a really crappy job explaining this to students.Dave is involved in after-school programs for software development as well. The ones that succeed don't approach software head on. They do fun and fancy stuff with Raspberry Pi or put a webserver up and then point out the concepts used in the programming. This approach is the future of development training. [00:16:01] Do you feel like CS programs aren't preparing students well? or have the wrong focus? Students come out well versed in the theoretics of programming and can write programs. These are good things to know. The assumption is that they'll pick up the rest in their first couple of jobs. They're not preparing people to walk straight into a job, but prepares them to learn the rest on the job.A 4 year program should be done after 2 years working in the real world. Most of the things not taught don't make sense until the student has the problem that it solves. For example, source control. This would give them context for the things that are important and bring the knowledge back to the [00:20:26] What is in the curriculum? In a few years, these students will probably be writing a functional language like