It's the season finale and we put down the keyboards and just have a good ol' chinwag. We'll be back in Spring 2021!

This week, the team talk about the good and bad of performance reviews

Laura talks about her experience as a mentor, and we discuss the value of mentor/mentee relationships in the industry.

In this episode we look at recruitment from the 'other side' as we welcome Steve Wright from Spectrum IT to discuss the role of the recruitment agent for todays job seekers.

This week we talk about 'visionaries' and 'evangelists' and how should a Development team respond when faced with exciting, but often unrealistic, new ideas.

Recorded as the UK starts easing out of lock down, we take a look back over the 15 weeks and discuss how we've coped, what changes we've seen in ourselves and others, and consider what things might stick or change as we adapt to the new working model. Wait But Why - Why Procastinators Procastinate Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide To Life Liberated From Anxiety The Confidence Gap

Look, an episode! This week, we talk with Paul Newell, veteran of the defence industry, to get a view on the difficulty applying agile concepts to multi-year, multi-million pound projects. This episode was recorded over Zoom, so sorry not sorry about the audio quality.

It's another remote episode of Bitpicking TV, in audio form! This week, the team consider the sudden popularity of Zoom for conferencing, and whether anyone really cares about security and privacy if they can just get to change their background once in a while.  In an ironic twist of events, Skype lets us down halfway through, so we decide to try Zoom out for ourselves.  See if you can spot the join! Watch our happy little faces at https://youtu.be/2ZsPuE3kwAM

Desperate times, desperate measures....  The Bitpicking team congregate on Skype for what's probably the first of many remote sessions.  Naturally, the only topic in town is the impact of COVID-19 on the daily lives of software teams - remote working, changes in business priorities, and how long until we're all on Club Penguin... As an added bonus, you can now see our angelic little faces on Bitpicking TV!  Find us at https://youtu.be/xqthn2gMBM0 - like and subscribe! (that's what the cool kids say, right?)

Mark & Greg tackle TDD - Test Driven Development.  What is it?  When should you do it?  How can you make it stick?