100: The Business of Documentation with Jaime Slutzky

Greater Than Code

• Episode: 100: The Business of Documentation with Jaime Slutzky
• Website: Greater Than Code
• Feed URL: https://www.greaterthancode.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 00:43:48
• Published: 2018-10-10 07:00

In this episode, Jaime Slutzky talks about making pieces of technology work together functionally, working for clients and business owners and then handing over processes and documentation, and what your clients need to know about tech stacks. Panelists: Jamey Hampton | John K. Sawers Guest Starring: Jaime Slutzky: @TechOfBusiness | Tech of Business | Podcast Show Notes: 01:12 – Jaime’s Superpower: Taking complex ideas and figuring out the fastest way from here to there. (i.e.: logistics!) Zapier 05:41 – Tech as a Roadblock 19:44 – Handing Off Responsibilities to Business Owners Process Street The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Bullet Journals 18:09 – Identifying Ideal Clients and Attitudes Towards Technology 24:40 – Documentation 36:53 – What do clients need to know about technology? Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]. Reflections: John: Documentation is important. Jamey: Getting tech recommendations from people you trust, pick one, and do it. Don’t be paralyzed by indecision. Jaime: Document in isolation. Are you Greater Than Code? Submit guest blog posts to [email protected] Please leave us a review on iTunes! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode. To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and interactive transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Transcript: JAMEY:  Hello, listeners. I have a really exciting news because I would love to welcome you to Episode 100 of Greater Than Code. Yay! One hundred episodes. JOHN:  Yay! JAMEY:  I am one of your host, Jamey Hampton and I'm here with my friend, John K Sawers. JOHN:  Thanks, Jamey and I'm so excited to be here on Episode 100. Our guest is Jaime Slutzky. She is a virtual CTO, providing tech strategy and implementation services. She integrates software systems for creative but out of the box entrepreneurs, so they can spend their time and energy creating content and engaging with their clients. She thrives by removing tech as a barrier to letting her client’s visions shine through. Jaime hosts the Tech of Business Podcast where she showcases the role of software and technology in businesses of every size and shape. Welcome to the show, Jaime. JAIME:  Thank you so much for having me. This is going to be a fun conversation because I love code but I love so much more than that too. JAMEY:  Then you're perfect for the show. I want to start out with the question that we often start out with, that always start with which is what is your superpower and how did you acquire it? JAIME:  My superpower is taking complex ideas and just figuring out the fastest way from here to there. Honestly and truly, I can look at a complicated system, I can look at the scenario of driving my kid to carpool or a complete computer system. It doesn't matter and I figure out the best possible way and I think that that came about out of necessity because I had to find my place in the world. I don't know. I mean, it's kind of strange but it works pretty well in business and in life and everything. JAMEY:  Yeah, that sounds like 'useful in all situations' superpower. JAIME:  It's helpful for sure. The biggest challenge that I had with it is that I couldn't figure it out for this school year, for my daughter, to be able for my older daughter to dance and so I have pivoted her entire schedule so that she and I get one-on-one time that we were going to have if she dance.