Fireside with Voxgig for Professional Speakers
Natalie Gray
Episode: 104
Richard talks to Natalie Gray, a former colleague and an expert community builder, previously with Voxgig and now with software consultancy Codurance. Listen to learn about the Software Craftsmanship manifesto and more.
Richard talks to Natalie Gray, a former colleague and an expert community builder, previously with Voxgig and now with software consultancy Codurance.
In Codurance, Natalie and her colleagues are inherently linked to the Software Craftsmanship manifesto– a mindset to software engineering. Can your software scale with your business? Natalie explains that the Software Craftsmanship mission is to raise the bar in the software industry through professionalism and technical excellence. Ingrained in this mindset is the desire to always be and do better—to continuously push the limits in pursuit of excellence. The genesis of Codurance is in the Software Craftsmanship community founded by Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar. With a community of over 6,000 developers in London alone, this is a living manifesto in a thriving community.
With regard to community success, Natalie isa firm believer in the need for integrity in your community purpose. A lot ofpeople want to focus on quality and are proud of what they do, so a space forthem to share and come together without a commercial reason allows new techideas to be born. An important aspect of preventing things to feel commerciallydriven is in your approach to content – are you producing resources and contentpeople need and want rather than just selling stuff?
DevRel measuring gets touched on again, specificallyon community, how do you know its sustainable? Natalie’s advice is to talk toyour community. Ask them, is this what you want? And watch out for the coregroups, the committed returning members, their enthusiasm is the thing tomeasure, not the size of the attendance.
All in all, this is a focused discussion on creatingand supporting communities to ensure and recognise success and impacts.
Reach out to Natalie Gray: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliejgray/
Other useful links mentioned in the episode:
Check out Codurance here: https://www.codurance.com/services
Learn more about the Software Craftmanship community and mindset here: https://sc-london.com/
And reach out to Sandro and Mashooq here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandromancuso/
https://www.codurance.com/publications/author/mashooq-badar
