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AI KnowhowMaking the Leap from AI POC to AI ProductIt’s easy to launch an AI proof of concept. It’s hard to turn it into a solution people actually enjoy using and continue to use over the long haul. In this episode, Knownwell CMO Courtney Baker teams up with CEO David DeWolf and Chief Product & Technology Officer Mohan Rao to unpack the real-world challenges of operationalizing AI. From starting with the right problem to mastering change management and workflow integration, they share practical strategies for bridging the gap from prototype to production. Pete Buer kicks things off with a look at a Columbia Univ...
2025-08-1135 min
UX BanterPrioritizing the User in UX - Kevin Tuskey - S2 Ep. 4S2 Episode 4 - Kevin Tuskey - Prioritizing the User in UX
Introduction
Kevin Tuskey is an award-winning product designer with over 15 years of experience in creating clean and elegant user interfaces. Strategic thinking and problem-solving come naturally to him, making him one of the most promising design leaders in the world. Meet Kevin Tuskey, the Director of Design at SingleStone.
Discussion Points
What were those decisions to come into design? And how was your journey? 03:08
I see that there are a lot of changes that are happening, but how...
2022-10-1249 minUX BanterPrioritizing the User in UX - Kevin Tuskey - S2 Ep. 4S2 Episode 4 - Kevin Tuskey - Prioritizing the User in UX
Introduction
Kevin Tuskey is an award-winning product designer with over 15 years of experience in creating clean and elegant user interfaces. Strategic thinking and problem-solving come naturally to him, making him one of the most promising design leaders in the world. Meet Kevin Tuskey, the Director of Design at SingleStone.
Discussion Points
What were those decisions to come into design? And how was your journey? 03:08
I see that there are a lot of changes that are happening, but how...
2022-10-1249 min
Ascending ChangeCompany Culture And Organizational SuccessWorkforce leaders are responsible for managing their teams to carry out their tasks and achieve business goals. However, promoting a company culture focused on empathy, flexibility, and change management can help your team stay satisfied in their positions and united in the face of challenges. So how can leaders make changes to facilitate a more positive company culture?On this episode of the Survive & Thrive podcast, host Jennifer Ayres is joined by guest Kate Hall to speak about company culture and leadership. Kate is a project leader primarily focused on change management at SingleStone Consulting. Kate has...
2022-08-3020 min
Bounded ContextElisabeth Hendrickson — Founder of Curious Duck LabElisabeth is an author and technology executive with a proven track record for growing leadership teams and shaping cultures to build innovative products at a sustainable pace. She is the Founder and CTO of Curious Duck Digital Laboratory, a company that is building a game to explore tradeoffs in software development. Sign up to be the first to play.
Connect with Elisabeth: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter
Check out her books: Explore It! and There's Always a Duck.
Episode links:
Game Development Conference (GDC) Talks
Gerald Weinberg, Systems Thinking
D...
2022-02-0337 minBounded ContextTim Beattie—Global Head of Product at Red HatTim Beattie is Global Head of Product and a Senior Principal Engagement Lead for Red Hat Open Innovation Labs. His career in product delivery spans 20 years as an Agile and Lean Transformation Coach.
His new book, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift features real-world practices—some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related—to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering.
Connect with Tim: Link...
2021-12-0940 minBounded ContextEric Cunningham — VP of Cyber Engineering and Architecture at Capital OneEric 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 dom...
2021-11-1132 minBounded ContextChris Matts — Agile Coach, Author, Transformation LeadChris Matts used his extensive knowledge of financial derivatives to develop an approach on how to deal with decision-making and named it real options. Unlike the "traditional" Real Options approach that is based on Black-Scholes, his approach avoids complex mathematics and focuses on the practical implications of options. His model teaches us to understand the timing of decision-making and discover new options that were never appreciated. Chris teamed up with Olav Maassen and Chris Geary to create the first business graphic novel about managing risk on projects. In the novel, the main character Rose Randall learns how to apply...
2021-10-2844 minBounded ContextAce Callwood — Director at EnvoyAce 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...
2021-10-1452 minBounded ContextDave Carillo — Co-Founder of The Critical Thinking InitiativeHow 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...
2021-09-2347 minBounded ContextMathias Verraes — Founder & Principal Consultant at AardlingMathias 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.
Connect with Mathias: LinkedIn, Blog, Website, Twitter
Notes:
Domain-Driven Design Europe
Refactoring, Martin Fowler
DDD Conference Europe, Eric Evans
Rebecca...
2021-09-0950 min
Bounded ContextBrandon Linton — Enterprise Architect at CarMaxBrandon 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.
Connect with Brandon: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter
Episode Links:
CarMax
Shadow Price
Team Topologies, Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton
Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren Ph.D., Jez Humble, and Gen...
2021-08-2632 minBounded ContextJason Hall — Lean Product & Business Agility CoachJason Hall is an organizational servant with coaching strengths in creating safe spaces for teams to thrive, have fun, and most importantly deliver amazing products that customers love. He helps organizations develop a more customer-centric approach to product delivery grounded in measurable success. He's always learning, sharing, and striving to cultivate better organizations.
Episode Notes:
Coaching Towards Impactful Product over Working Software by Jason Hall
Collaborative Structures LLC
Teresa Torres, Product Talk
Continuous Discovery Habits
Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Thinking
Dan Ariely
Ma...
2021-08-1237 minBounded ContextAnne-Jeanette LeBell — CoFounder of BankShiftAnne-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.
Connect with Anne-Jeanette: LinkedIn, Twitter
BankShift
How does BankShift work?
2021-07-0836 minBounded ContextEpisode 22 - Jai Schniepp — Director of Secure DevOps Platforms at Liberty MutualJai 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.
Connect with Jai: LinkedIn
Liberty Mutual
Punky Brewster
John Cutler
...
2021-06-2430 minBounded ContextEpisode 21 - Leah Cunningham — Engineering Manager at VericaLeah 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.
Connect with Leah: LinkedIn
Verica
Chaos Engineering
Casey Rosenthal
Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren Ph.D., Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
Mob Programming, Woody Zuill
Semantic Diffusion, Martin Fowler
2021-06-1051 minBounded ContextEpisode 20 - Wes North — Cloud Infrastructure and Security TechnologistIs 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!
Connect with Wes: LinkedIn, Twitter
Cornerstone
Gene Kim – IT Revolution
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity
Terraform: IaC at Enterprise Scale
Azure: IaC at Enterprise Scale
AWS CloudFormation: IaC at Enterprise Scale
2021-05-2741 minBounded ContextEpisode 19 - Tom Illmensee — Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie and Co-Founder & CEO of Orbital Music ParkTom 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?
Connect with Tom: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter
Song X Studio
Orbital Music Park
Philosophie Group Inc.
Welc...
2021-05-1340 minBounded ContextEpisode 18 - David Anderson — TechnologistWill 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!
Connect with David: LinkedIn, Website, Twitter
Notes
Wardley Mapping
Domain Driven Design
Pioneers, Settlers, Time-Planners
Team Typologies
Kent Beck, 3X Model: Explore, Expand, Extract
The Secrets of Consulting, Gerald Weinburg
Marty Cagan
Mary Poppendieck
Chaos Commu
2021-04-2938 minBounded ContextEpisode 17 - Nick Tune — Technical Leader, Author, Speaker, TrainerNick 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.
Connect with Nick Tune:
LinkedIn, Website, Blog, Talks, Twitter
Notes:
LeanUX, Jeff Gothelf
Inspired, Marty Cagan
Eric Evans
2021-04-1540 minBounded ContextEpisode 16 — Ida Pierce, Process & Solutions Manager at MarkelIda Pierce is a lifelong designer, creative problem-solver, and currently the Process and Solutions Manager at Markel’s Finance Organization. She joins Ryan Shriver to share how Design Thinking shapes her ability to connect, direct, and contribute to problem-solving. They cover empathy and assumption mapping, talent design, fair and inclusive hiring processes, and designing products and processes for good.
Episode Notes:
OpenIDEO – Richmond Chapter
The Read Center
Wonderbolt Labs
VA HBCU's
When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Understand Design Thinking in Under 5 Minutes
...
2021-04-0139 minBounded ContextEpisode 15 - Andrew Glover — Productivity Engineer at NetflixProductivity 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.
Andrew Glover: Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter
Notes:
Productivity Engineering
Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P Brooks
The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt
Team of Rivals, Doris Goodwin
a16z
Cautio...
2021-03-1842 minBounded ContextEpisode 14 - Tom Gilb — Senior Partner, GILB.comRyan 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.
Tom's: Website, Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter
Notes:
Tom Gilb at TEDxTrondheim
Value Agile, Tom Gilb
Innovative Creativity, Tom Gilb
Enterprise Architecture Success Kit, Tom Gilb
Competitive Engineering, Tom Gilb
Graphmetrix
Theory of Sampling, W. Edward...
2021-03-0442 minBounded ContextEpisode 13 - Dr. Miriam Friedel — Director of Software Engineering at Capital OneIn 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.
Connect with Miriam: LinkedIn, Blog
Capital One Tech
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Hamilton Soundtrack
2021-02-0438 minBounded ContextEpisode 12 - Lyssa Adkins — Agile and Leadership CoachDecisions 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.
Lyssa Adkins:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog, Website, Agile Coaching Institute
Episode Notes:
Design Thinking - Kevin Tuskey
Evolvagility - Michael Hamman
Agile Transformation - Michael Spayd, Michele Madore
Lead Together - Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield, Travis Marsh
Coaching Agile Teams audiobook - Lys...
2021-01-2139 minBounded ContextEpisode 11 - Cathy Scerbo — VP, CIO at IAPPWhat 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.
Connect with Cathy: LinkedIn, Twitter
International Association of Privacy Professionals
Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Global Privacy and Security by Design
J. Trevor Hughes, IAPP Pr...
2021-01-0743 minBounded ContextEpisode 10 - Casey Lee — CTO at GaggleRyan Shriver catches up with Casey Lee — CTO of Gaggle, a tech company that helps ensure the safety and well-being of students.
Connect with Casey:
Gaggle, LinkedIn, Website, Twitter, AWS Container Hero
2020-12-0341 minBounded ContextEpisode 9 - Gabrielle Benefield — Founder of MobiusLoopRyan 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.
Connect with Gabrielle:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Website
2020-11-1930 min
rvatech/TalksRyan Shriver, Chief Technology Officer & Chris Belyea, Technical Director of Cloud & DevOpsRyan Shriver, Chief Technology Officer, specializes in solving complex technical problems and is a trusted partner to some of our biggest clients. Ryan is passionate about teaching and mentoring: in addition to leading our Cloud and DevOps team, Ryan teaches Problem Solving for Designers at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Arts.Chris Belyea is SingleStone’s Cloud and DevOps Technical Director. Chris guides clients through Cloud and DevOps transformations, including cloud strategy, migrating workloads to the cloud, automating infrastructure deployment, creating CI/CD pipelines, and improving automated configuration management.
2020-11-091h 09Bounded ContextEpisode 8 - Clarke Ching — Author and CPO at Odd Socks Consulting in New ZealandWe're visiting Richmond in this episode of Bounded Context. Richmond, New Zealand, that is! Ryan interviews Clarke Ching, author, and chief productivity officer at Odd Socks Consulting.
2020-11-051h 03Bounded ContextEpisode 7 — Paul Duvall - Founder and former CTO at StelligentIn the seventh episode of Bounded Context, Ryan interviews Paul Duvall, Founder and former CTO at Stelligent.
2020-10-2944 min
Bounded ContextEpisode 6 - Justin Gehtland — CEO & Co-Founder of CognitectSingleStone CTO Ryan Shriver interviews Justin Gehtland, CEO and Co-Founder of Cognitect.
2020-10-1647 min
Bounded ContextEpisode 5 - Noah Scalin — ArtistSingleStone CTO Ryan Shriver meets with Artist, Author, Activist, Creativity Consultant, and Space Pirate Noah Scalin in the fifth episode of Bounded Context.
2020-10-0238 min
Bounded ContextEpisode 4 - Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart Co-founders of DOJO & COIn the fourth episode of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver interviews Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart, Co-Founders at Dojo and Co and authors of Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution.
2020-09-2237 min
Bounded ContextEpisode 3 - Vida Williams — CDO and HOD SingleStoneIn the third episode of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver sits down with Vida Williams, Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Data at SingleStone. Vida is a revered leader in the tech space. In addition to her roles at SingleStone, Vida is a professor and Innovator in Resident at Virginia Commonwealth University, a gubernatorial appointee and co-chair of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Partnership Authority, and an impassioned activist for data privacy. She has contributed to TedX, TomTom Festival, The Frontier Partners, and countless client presentations. Vida also volunteers her data expertise to non-profits, offering free workshops and consulting. She leads...
2020-09-0137 min
Bounded ContextEpisode 2 - John Chapin — Partner at Symphonia & AuthorIn the second episode of Bounded Context, Ryan Shriver catches up with John Chapin, Partner at Symphonia and Author of Programming AWS Lambda: Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with Java.
2020-08-1622 min
Bounded ContextEpisode 1 - Don Mills — CISO at SingleStoneBounded Context is a series aimed at exploring how leading thinkers solve problems, in hopes that you might discover a piece of knowledge to help you become a better problem solver, too. In this episode, our host, Ryan Shriver, interviews Don Mills, Chief Information Security Officer at SingleStone.
2020-08-0231 minrvatech/TalksVida Williams, Part Two!Vida Williams, Data & Machine Learning Expert, Adjunct Professor, and Entrepreneur joins us again as she discusses Bias in Machine Learning as well as Antiracism and Inclusion in Technology Today. In the past few weeks, Vida has also become the Chief Diversity Officer at Singlestone and she shares how to create a diverse and inclusive work environment.
2020-07-2054 minrvatech/TalksVida Williams, Data & Machine Learning Expert, Adjunct Professor, and EntrepreneurVida is an innovation advocate who is determined that innovation cannot leave humanity behind, Vida utilizes her experience as a data scientist to drive social and economic change in communities. A promising start as a tech writer spurred a nearly 20 year career with data, technology, and innovation, spanning several industries including energy, healthcare and education. In 2013, she co-founded a small social enterprise consulting firm, Axis Partners, Inc. where they serve mission-driven organizations in the areas of data architecture, process engineering and data sciences. Recently her endeavors as an adjunct professor at VCU’s da Vinci center has led her to...
2020-06-0846 min