Healthy Developer

By Jayme Edwards, Tech Career Strategist & Coach

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If working in software feels like politics, pressure, and burnout—you're not crazy. You're just awake. I'm Jayme Edwards, a tech career strategist and coach. After 27 years in the industry—across startups, consultancies, and enterprise teams—I learned the hard way that thriving in tech means more than chasing promotions or distracting yourself to try and survive the chaos. In this podcast (the audio version of my YouTube channel, Healthy Developer), I share honest lessons from my career, behind-the-scenes stories from real projects, and strategies you can use to have a healthier work/life balance while growing in tech. New episodes every Monday on YouTube and here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to join a growing community of software professionals choosing clarity, leverage, and a life over burnout.

Episode Date
He Thought Product Management Was The Answer...
May 07, 2025
You Were Right About Healthy Developer
Apr 30, 2025
Helping a Dev Manager Fix Team Culture
Apr 23, 2025
Helping a Dev Double Down on Creativity
Apr 16, 2025
Helping a Dev Rediscover His Entrepreneurial Drive
Apr 02, 2025
5 Signs You Shoulda Quit the Tech Grind YEARS Ago
Mar 26, 2025
Helping a Dev Manager Focus on Action—Not Fear
Mar 19, 2025
Loving Money Makes You a Perfect Programmer Slave
Feb 26, 2025
Programmer Employees Don't Have a Career Anymore
Feb 19, 2025
Stop Solving Problems for Your Development Team!
Nov 20, 2024
Can Employees REALLY Set Boundaries With Managers?
Nov 06, 2024
Does Corporate Culture KILL Creativity in Tech?
Oct 23, 2024
If Your Tech Job is Comfortable, You're in Danger
Oct 16, 2024
Think Your Corporate Job Is Secure? Think Again
Oct 02, 2024
The Secret to Finding Profitable Software Ideas
Sep 25, 2024
Real 10x Programmers Are SLOW To Write Code
Sep 18, 2024
How To ACTUALLY Get Your Boss To Listen
Sep 11, 2024
A TRUE Software Project Horror Story
Sep 04, 2024
Does LinkedIn Brainwash You Into Hating Your Job?
Aug 21, 2024
Programmers HATE When Managers Do This
Jul 31, 2024
Are You Truly Motivated To Change Your Tech Career?
Jul 24, 2024
"Agile Signaling" is Gaslighting The Tech Industry
Jul 17, 2024
When Should a Programmer Become a Manager?
Jul 10, 2024
Why Do Programmers Accept Being Stuck in Their Career?
Jul 07, 2024
10 Steps to Becoming a Solo Technology Consultant
Jun 26, 2024
Can a Programmer's Mind Become Their Prison?
Jun 12, 2024
Why Tech Consultants Have Management's Ear (And You Don't)
Jun 05, 2024
Why are Programmers Terrified of Self-Employment?
Jun 01, 2024
Your Project Is FAKE Agile, What Now?
May 23, 2024
My Vision of Hope For the Tech Industry's Problems
May 15, 2024
Learning Addiction Keeps Programmers in Chains
May 09, 2024
This Is Why Managers Don't Trust Programmers...
May 01, 2024
Only Developers Who Know This Should Post on Social
Apr 16, 2024
How I Hacked My Sleep as a Programmer
Apr 10, 2024
Can a "DIY Mindset" Keep Programmers From Growing?
Apr 03, 2024
Why Nobody's Buying Your Ideas in Tech
Mar 27, 2024
Should You Fight Dirty to Climb The Tech Ladder?
Mar 20, 2024
Does Programming Make Us Wise—Or Fools?
Mar 13, 2024
Why Most Programmers DON'T Last
Mar 07, 2024
Is Your Tech Job Really Bad Enough To Quit?
Feb 28, 2024
Is Working in Tech Hurting Your Romantic Partner?
Feb 21, 2024
Why Do So Many Programmers Use Drugs?
Feb 14, 2024
How Hard Tech Projects Make You a Stronger Person
Feb 07, 2024
Why Do Most Programmers Who Start Companies Fail?
Feb 01, 2024
Do Programmers Actually ENJOY Being Miserable?
Jan 24, 2024
Can You See The Red Flags Of A Toxic Tech Company?
Jan 18, 2024
3 Ways Programmers Escape The Corporate Grind
Jan 10, 2024
Is Programming Stealing Your Life Away?
Jan 03, 2024
How To Stop Getting Overwhelmed By Your Tech Job
Dec 21, 2023
Don't Believe The AI Hype! Do This Instead...
Dec 13, 2023
Why Programming Might Not Feel Fun Anymore
Dec 06, 2023
What Software Architects Do That Programmers DON'T
Nov 22, 2023
Is Your Tech Stack Holding You Back?
Nov 15, 2023
Programming Burnout Is Real - But You CAN Heal
Nov 08, 2023
How To Know If Your Manager Is Trustworthy
Oct 25, 2023
Is Tech Lead the WORST Job For Most Programmers?
Oct 18, 2023
If Code is Self-Documenting, Why Do Comments Exist?
Aug 04, 2022
The Art of Tech Persuasion: A Programmer's Guide
Jul 27, 2022
Is Your "Agile" Backlog REALLY a Waterfall Project?
Jul 19, 2022
Are Programmers Really To Blame For BAD Estimates?
Jul 11, 2022
Why Does Scrum Make Programmers HATE Coding?
Jul 05, 2022
How Senior Programmers ACTUALLY Write Code
Jun 25, 2022
200 Software Developers Told Me What They REALLY Want
Jun 17, 2022
Is There Really Such Thing as a GOOD Programmer?
Jun 04, 2022
My First Software Project Was a Political Firestorm
May 24, 2022
Why Are Programmers Never HAPPY With Their Job?
May 11, 2022
The Hidden Value of Being a Forgiving Developer
May 04, 2022
Jayme Returns to Coach Healthy Developers!
Apr 27, 2022
My Recovery From Programmer Anger
Jun 06, 2019
Scott Nimrod on Personal Reputation vs Teamwork
Mar 15, 2019
Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and Influencing Change
Mar 12, 2019
How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 4 Commitments
Mar 08, 2019
Response to Comments on "Sprint Planning is Bullshit!"
Mar 06, 2019
3 Embarrassing Software Developer Stories From My Career
Mar 02, 2019
How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 3 Forecasting
Feb 22, 2019
How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 2 Hiring Talent
Feb 18, 2019
How Agile Teams Grow Toxic! Ep. 1 Founder Values
Feb 12, 2019
I Quit My Software Project To Get Healthy!
Feb 09, 2019
Scrum Got 3 People Fired From A Software Project!
Jul 17, 2018
How To Pause A Software Project To Fix A Problem
Jul 14, 2018
They Watched Us With Webcams And Rewrote Our Code!
Jul 10, 2018
Lead Software Developers Better By Letting Go!
Jul 07, 2018
It's Hard To Keep A New Team Doing Continuous Delivery
Jun 26, 2018
How To Stop Comparing Your Career To Other Developers
Jun 23, 2018
John Cutler on Agile Skepticism and Developer Impact
Jun 19, 2018
Can User Stories Make Software Project Late?
Jun 16, 2018
We Were Hired For A Hidden Agenda
Jun 12, 2018
Should You Really Measure Progress On A Software Project?
Jun 09, 2018
We Designed A Software Product That Never Got Built
Jun 05, 2018
Scrum Is The "Motor" Of Your Project, But Who's Steering?
Jun 02, 2018
Know When To STOP Learning And Just Write The Code!
May 30, 2018
Is It Safe To Make Mistakes On Your Software Project?
May 26, 2018
I Got By On A Software Project With Help From My Friend
May 22, 2018
Spot A Fake Agile Team In Under 7 Minutes!
May 19, 2018
A Tale Of Software Development Culture Change - Gone Wrong!
May 14, 2018
Iain Lowe on Estimating, Culture, and Agile Dogma
May 13, 2018
Senior Developers Forget They're Really Consultants
May 12, 2018
Scott Nimrod on Consulting and Software Craftsmanship
May 09, 2018
The De-Corporatization of Jayme
May 08, 2018
Why Do Leaders Treat Programmers Like Children?
May 06, 2018
Healing The Rift Between Programmers And Managers
May 02, 2018
Daily Scrum Meeting: A Status Meeting In Disguise?
Apr 29, 2018
What REALLY Gets Software Developers Promoted?
Apr 24, 2018
A Product Manager Is A Programmer's Best Friend!
Apr 22, 2018
Are You Refactoring Code For The Right Reasons?
Apr 18, 2018
Accepting What You Can't Change On A Software Project
Apr 06, 2018
7 Common Agile Development Fails
Apr 04, 2018
I Can't Stop Thinking About Programming After Work!
Mar 27, 2018
Why Do Some Programmers Never Agree?
Mar 22, 2018
Impact Mapping: What's Your Software Development Worth?
Mar 18, 2018
How A Business Model Canvas Helps Agile Teams
Mar 15, 2018
Is Your Software Company A Feature Factory Or A Lean Startup?
Mar 13, 2018
Leadership Skills for Lean Software Development
Mar 13, 2018
Why Do So Many Programmers Lose Hope?
Mar 06, 2018
Caffeine Makes It Harder To Be Agile!
Mar 04, 2018
Why Do People Take Credit For Your Ideas?
Mar 03, 2018
5 Big Lies The Software Industry Tells You
Feb 28, 2018
An Agile Budget Keeps You From Being A Code Monkey
Feb 26, 2018
Is Planning Poker Safe On Your Team?
Feb 25, 2018
Programming Made it Hard to Lose Weight
Feb 20, 2018
The Secret of Scrum Nobody Wants To Talk About!
Feb 19, 2018
Is Your Software Development Leader a Narcissist?
Feb 18, 2018
Why Are YOU Making Programming Harder?
Feb 15, 2018
How To Find The Best Software Project For Your Personality
Feb 15, 2018
What Happens When Software Products Reach End Of Life
Feb 14, 2018
How Market Fit Changes Software Companies
Feb 13, 2018
Grow A Software Product The Smart Way
Feb 11, 2018
Is Your Software Company Managed By FEAR?
Feb 11, 2018
Programmer Flow State: "In The Zone" Coding
Feb 10, 2018
Are You A Perfectionist Programmer?
Feb 07, 2018
How To Earn Respect On A New Software Project
Feb 07, 2018
"New Framework Disease" (NFD) in Software Development
Feb 06, 2018
What Is DevOps REALLY About? (Hint: NOT CI/CD)
Feb 05, 2018
Pull Your Software Project Out Of A Death Spiral!
Feb 04, 2018
Programming Estimation – Estimate Software Tasks With Caution
Feb 01, 2018
Say NO On A Software Project - So They Will Listen!
Jan 31, 2018
Democratic Software Architecture - Sharing Technology Decisions
Jan 29, 2018
What To Do When Your Software Tasks Will Be Late
Jan 29, 2018
Software Project Burnout: Is It Them Or You?
Jan 28, 2018
Can Imposter Syndrome Help Software Developers Grow?
Jan 24, 2018
Can You Be Agile - Even When Your Company Isn't?
Jan 23, 2018
Your Software Project Is Failing - Now What?
Jan 23, 2018
5 Signs Your Software Business Is Led By Amateurs!
Nov 08, 2017
How To Confront Difficult Software Developers About Their Behavior
Nov 04, 2017
Needing To Be Understood Makes Software Professionals Dislike You
Nov 02, 2017
Is Ego Hurting Your Software Career?
Oct 22, 2017
Overcome Attachment: Discover the Mindset for Lean Software Development
Oct 14, 2017
How To Build Consensus For Software Decisions
Oct 06, 2017
How To Shut Down Your Feature Factory
Sep 30, 2017
5 Ways Dishonesty HURTS Your Software Development Career!
Aug 30, 2017
My Software Development Journey (Part 3)
Aug 25, 2017
My Software Development Journey (Part 2)
Aug 24, 2017
My Software Development Journey (Part 1)
Aug 23, 2017
How Failure Produces BETTER Software Projects
Aug 16, 2017
How UNCERTAINTY Impacts Software Development Processes!
Aug 08, 2017
What MEN Need To Know About Software Developer BRO CULTURE!
Jul 29, 2017
How To Earn Trust For Your Software Development Ideas
Jul 25, 2017
5 Ways To Cope With The ANXIETY Of Software Development!
Jul 25, 2017
How To Be A Servant Leader On Software Projects
Jul 24, 2017
Why Software Developers DISAGREE - And What To Do About It!
Jul 21, 2017
The Journey To CROSS FUNCTIONAL Development Teams
Jul 17, 2017
Software Developer vs Consultant - What's Better For YOU?
Jul 16, 2017
Why Software Development Change Initiatives FAIL!
Jul 14, 2017
Evolving Software Architecture To Adapt With Product Growth
Jul 11, 2017
5 Software Redesign MISTAKES By Software Companies!
Jul 11, 2017
5 Ways Pride KILLS A Software Project!
Jul 09, 2017
How To A/B Software Development To Find What Customers Value
Jul 07, 2017
Continuous Delivery Best Practices For Infrastructure As Code
Jul 06, 2017
How to Use Configuration Management For Continuous Delivery Of Software
Jul 05, 2017
Development Environments - Isolating Customers From Your Changes
Jul 02, 2017
Continuous Delivery - Are You Missing The Big Picture?
Jun 30, 2017
Creative Software Development - Explosive Growth By Letting Go
Jun 28, 2017
Scrum vs Kanban - How Do They Help You Be More LEAN In 2017?
Jun 26, 2017
Software Estimation - Trading Perceived Effort For Outcomes
Jun 25, 2017
Agile Project Management - Is It STOPPING You From Being Agile?
Jun 24, 2017
Minimum Viable Product - Letting Software Customers Help YOU Profit
Jun 24, 2017
Lean Software Development - It's About Uncertainty!
Jun 21, 2017