Research Unknowns in Time Boxes

In addition to training software developers, I work with scientific research companies. I have one client that’s the world authority on things that happen in the air…weather and stuff like that. I have another client that’s a world authority on things that happen underneath the earth. They study geological topology and do geological cartography, and so forth. Both have a lot of scientists working for them: pure, real research scientists.

What’s really cool is that they not only brought their developers to my classes but they brought their scientists to my classes as well. So here I am teaching senior scientific researchers the same techniques I teach developers and they find it incredibly valuable. After all, ...

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