I Don't Know What I'm Doing

Paul Michelotti, Pat McLoughlin, and Nate Paulus, three tenured technical consultants ply their trade on themselves, exploring problems facing those who might call themselves consultants and taking a stab at making everything better.

One in One Out Hole Policy 05/09/2020

One in One Out Hole Policy Key Topics: Property Brothers of Software Development, Project Management, One in One Out Hole Policy, Green River /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/14346965

Signal Boosting Secaucus 03/31/2020

Signal Boosting Secaucus Current events weighing on you? Want to take a break and return to a simpler time when our biggest concern was a mobile app being sideloaded to serve the Iowa Democratic caucus? The I Don't Know What I'm Doing podcast and Paul's inability to edit things in a timely manner is here to serve you on that front and so many more. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/13775303

Soft Taco Out 02/28/2020

Soft Taco Out Hot Topics this episode: What's a Fish Taco? #softtacoout. Google closed door policy. Top Marketing Trends for 2020! Asked to Innovate at work. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/13334372

Four Foot Tenderloins 01/01/2020

Four Foot Tenderloins Happy New Years to all! We open this episode talking about our Christmas List which would have been poignant if I had edited this in a reasonable amount of time. I would love to have a new years resolution which was germane to that point, but I absolutely do not. Listen in to hear about Pat's car's tail light, new rulings in the GDPR world, and whether free food is the greatest detriment to company culture. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/12583031

Aftermath of Jr. High Band 11/13/2019

Aftermath of Jr. High Band The consultants take on such tough subjects as nurturing entry level employees and whether pooping on the bathroom floor should be a firable offense. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/12017846

Next Question 10/22/2019

Next Question Pat was really messed up on NyQuil but that didn't stop us from coming to the table with our overtly valuable opinions on Fake Agile, the Domino's Pizza Accessibility case, and being over-allocated across multiple clients. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/11735033

Compulsory Velcro Shoes 09/30/2019

Compulsory Velcro Shoes We're back with the first episode of what we are calling season 2. Come listen to us stumble around AI news, an extremely old but recently suable data breach, and how to get back that old team feel on a new crew. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/11449721

Maybe Talking About Taking Ownership 05/21/2019

Maybe Talking About Taking Ownership Given the topic of this episode is on taking ownership - I will set an example by taking ownership of the incoherent and rambling nature of the dialog. We start off with Pat presenting a scathing assessment of the state of software delivery and end up with an exposition of our dearth of knowledge concerning cattle farming. In there somewhere a couple points get made, some pro-strats concerning success in taking ownership in all manner of delivery scenarios. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/9859808

Engaging in Employee Engagement 04/02/2019

Engaging in Employee Engagement We try our darndest to cut through the propaganda and stigma that "Employee Engagement" has garnered to get to some meat, looking at Engagement's value and its drivers. If you or your team feels disengaged, or if you just want to hear what a bunch of developers thing about engagement, give us a listen. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/9238910

The Bench Doesn't Need to be That Warm 03/05/2019

The Bench Doesn't Need to be That Warm Pat, Nate, and Paul explore Bench Time and its proper application. If you're on the bench or might be going on the bench soon, this is mandatory listening. We arrive at a number of "problems" and a number of "solutions" but one tag line stands out - "Stay off the bench stay in the bullpen", which is representative of our assertion that you should turn your bench into your bullpen. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/8885330

On the Matter of Motivation 02/14/2019

On the Matter of Motivation With Pat engaging in life events, Nate and I take on a two man mission to explore our personal motivations and to what end we are motivated resulting in what amounts to an interesting and highly introspective conversation on the nature of motivation, particularly in the work place, and some common but powerful motivations. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/8644604

What About Working From Home 01/25/2019

What About Working From Home We fish around a bit for a topic but we finally get there in this episode about our experiences with and insights on working from home. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/8390666

Delivery French Fries 01/11/2019

Delivery French Fries We took a break from recording for the Christmas times, but had enough B reel on the floor to pull together a few minutes of bonus content, mostly about food for some reason, which shall forevermore constitute episode 3.5. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/8216390

Are Blended Rates Stupid? 12/27/2018

Are Blended Rates Stupid? We wander well outside our comfort zone to talk about our qualms, and mostly confusion, with blended rate billing models answering important questions like whether blended rates actually exist, when it's appropriate to leverage such a billing model, and where the best milkshakes are made. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/8054570

Episode 2 - What's in an Hour? 12/13/2018

Episode 2 - What's in an Hour? How do we become more productive as individuals as a team? Why do we feel like we haven't gotten anything done after working a 12 hour day? Why is it so hard to block off time to actually focus on getting something done well? We fish around in this mire of questions for a root problem and make wild assertions concerning how to make things better. Join the conversation at . Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/7902509

The Pilot 11/30/2018

The Pilot Nate, Pat, and Paul forego any attempt at professionalism or polish in this pilot episode of I Don't Know What I'm Doing - The Podcast, exploring the paths that brought each of them to technology consulting. /episode/index/show/idontknowwhatimdoing/id/7746902

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

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