The Digital Impact | Business Tech and AI
The Digital Impact | Business Tech and AI
Podcast Description
New episodes every Friday.The Digital Impact, powered by Foxit Software, is a business technology podcast spotlighting the thinkers and doers shaping the future of work. Each episode features candid, intelligent conversations with CIOs, CTOs, tech strategists, and innovation leaders driving real change inside modern organizations.This isn’t a surface-level tech news recap. It’s a platform for senior leaders to share hard-earned insights on how they’re solving complex problems with AI, automation, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and workflow modernization. From navigating hybrid work to leading digital transformation initiatives, we explore what it truly takes to adapt, scale, and lead in today’s fast-moving business landscape.Hosted by the team at Foxit—an industry leader in document productivity and AI-powered workflow solutions—The Digital Impact serves as both a thought leadership platform and a sounding board for enterprise innovation. We cut through the noise to bring our audience real stories, expert perspectives, and actionable strategies.Whether you're a listener looking to stay sharp or a guest ready to share your story, The Digital Impact is where business technology leaders meet to talk about what’s next—and what actually works.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as AI integration in the workplace, automation challenges, cybersecurity concerns, and workflow modernization. Episodes like 'AI as Your Coach' with Deion Wells-Ross and 'When AI Breaks the System' by Daniel Friker delve into subjects like the empowerment of human potential through AI and the potential pitfalls of over-relying on technology for efficiency.
New episodes every Friday.
The Digital Impact, powered by Foxit Software, is a business technology podcast spotlighting the thinkers and doers shaping the future of work. Each episode features candid, intelligent conversations with CIOs, CTOs, tech strategists, and innovation leaders driving real change inside modern organizations.
This isn’t a surface-level tech news recap. It’s a platform for senior leaders to share hard-earned insights on how they’re solving complex problems with AI, automation, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and workflow modernization. From navigating hybrid work to leading digital transformation initiatives, we explore what it truly takes to adapt, scale, and lead in today’s fast-moving business landscape.
Hosted by the team at Foxit—an industry leader in document productivity and AI-powered workflow solutions—The Digital Impact serves as both a thought leadership platform and a sounding board for enterprise innovation. We cut through the noise to bring our audience real stories, expert perspectives, and actionable strategies.
Whether you’re a listener looking to stay sharp or a guest ready to share your story, The Digital Impact is where business technology leaders meet to talk about what’s next—and what actually works.
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Daily standups and constant interruptions cost your engineering team time, drain your budget, and hinder innovation. Developer productivity is paramount, and the old management rules no longer apply. The key to unlocking efficiency isn’t more meetings; it’s smarter systems.
In this episode of The Digital Impact, host Charles Verhey sits down with David Gutman, a 20-year software development veteran who has led engineering teams for projects like Disney.com and StarWars.com. David exposes the hidden costs of “interrupt-driven chaos” and presents a new framework for managing high-performing development teams.
In this discussion, you will learn:
- The True Cost of Meetings: Why the conventional wisdom of daily standups is a net-negative for productivity and how to calculate their real impact on your bottom line.
- Deep Work & Asynchronous Communication: How to implement principles from Cal Newport’s “Deep Work” to create large, uninterrupted blocks of time that are essential for complex problem-solving.
- The AI Engineering Manager: A look at how AI can be used to automate check-ins, uncover blockers, and provide accountability without the need for disruptive meetings.
- AI vs. Human Developer: The surprising results of an experiment pitting Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, against a senior human developer on the same task—comparing speed, cost, and quality of work.
- The Future of Engineering Teams: Why the future isn’t about replacing developers with AI, but augmenting them to create a new class of hyper-productive “10x” engineers.
Where to find David Guttman:
- His book: treatdevslikeadults.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-guttman
Chapters
00:00 – Introduction: David Gutman, Engineering Leader
01:17 – The “Cargo Cult” Problem with Best Practices in Software
03:54 – Why Daily Standups Destroy Developer Productivity
07:53 – A Better Way: Asynchronous Communication & Deep Work
12:45 – The AI Engineering Manager: Automating Check-ins
14:28 – The Power of a Searchable, Written Record for Onboarding
22:53 – Experiment: AI Developer (Devin) vs. Senior Human Engineer
28:22 – The Surprising Results: Speed, Cost, and Code Quality
29:46 – The Future: Will AI Replace Software Engineers?
31:23 – How AI Empowers Non-Technical Leaders to Understand Their Product
35:58 – Final Thoughts
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