Herb Caudill's guest appearances

Herb Caudill

Inspiring Careers Podcast (ICP)

Terms Of Reference Podcast

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Elena Crescia

Sam Marks

Paul Niehaus

Krista Donaldson

Carne Ross

Alessandra Pigni

Sue Miller

David Roach

Tom Walker

David Auerbach

Zvika Krieger

David Evans

Nick Martin

Sean McDonald

Owen Barder

OwlTail

Herb Caudill, Founder and CTO of DevResults, a web tool for international humanitarian assistance &amp; disaster relief programs. When I asked the manager of my coworking in Barcelona, which member there he thought had the most exciting career, he immediately told me it was Herb Caudill I checked his website and was impressed with how they were helping the world. DevResults monitors, evaluates, maps, manages and collaborates w/ international development programs in the field, and has been used in 18 countries to manage over $2 billion in foreign assistance. Not only this software helps the humanitarian organizations, governments and donors get more clarity on their figures, it directly assists all of us, who also partially pay for it. He reminds us that simple, smart solutions to big problems can generate some very exciting careers. A company aligned with the future, that lets their team of 11 people work remotely, from anywhere they want. He grew up in Panama and Ecuador, then worked in Africa, US and then chose Barcelona, of course, to live with his family. 😃 Goes to work by bicycle, plays piano, speaks 6 to 7 languages. You know that saying “surround yourself with people you want to be like?”. That's how lucky some coworkers are to have doers like Herb around. We talk about: - what is a real world problem? - how they help people who solve real world problems, do their jobs better - how his software makes international development more accountable &amp; more transparent - the International Aid Transparency - wishes to make the software more of a planning and management and less of a reporting tool, not completely US focused - how his experience living in Panama, Ecuador and Africa helped him develop DevResults and work with International Development - how they choose their staff (programmers and data scientists) - how they got more name recognition and stability - future plans - the benefits of coworkings Quotes: “It pays off so much to create your own thing, to be your own boss. There is just nothing like that" "just stop thinking about it and do it" "famines don't happen because people don't know how to farm, famines happen because you have unstable government. Usually famines are political in nature" "there's nothing like that feeling of working on something brand new and fresh.” "you get so much more respect from customers than you do from bosses (…) They're respectful of your time in a way that you just don't see that much in an employee/employer relationships" "could make a lot more money than they're making now and have complete freedom by just quitting their jobs and doing the exact same thing as a consultant, or as a freelancer just as an individual. " Notes: Joel Gaicoigne, from Buffer d3 visualizations by Mike Bostock remoteok.io Nomadlist.com Stack Overflow International Aid Transparency Initiative--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maripimentashow/message

Herb Caudill, Founder and CTO of <a href="https://www.devresults.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DevResults,</a> a web tool for international humanitarian assistance &amp; disaster relief programs. When I asked the manager of my coworking in Barcelona, which member there he thought had the most exciting career, he immediately told me it was <a href="http://www.devresults.com/about" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Herb Caudill</a> I checked his website and was impressed with how they were helping the world. DevResults monitors, evaluates, maps, manages and collaborates w/ international development programs in the field, and has been used in 18 countries to manage over $2 billion in foreign assistance. Not only this software helps the humanitarian organizations, governments and donors get more clarity on their figures, it directly assists all of us, who also partially pay for it. He reminds us that simple, smart solutions to big problems can generate some very exciting careers. A company aligned with the future, that lets their team of 11 people work remotely, from anywhere they want. He grew up in Panama and Ecuador, then worked in Africa, US and then chose Barcelona, of course, to live with his family. 😃 Goes to work by bicycle, plays piano, speaks 6 to 7 languages. You know that saying <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-rohn-youre-the-average-of-the-five-people-you-spend-the-most-time-with-2012-7" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">“surround yourself with people you want to be like?”.</a> That's how lucky some coworkers are to have doers like Herb around. We talk about: - what is a real world problem? - how they help people who solve real world problems, do their jobs better - how his software makes international development more accountable &amp; more transparent - the International Aid Transparency - wishes to make the software more of a planning and management and less of a reporting tool, not completely US focused - how his experience living in Panama, Ecuador and Africa helped him develop DevResults and work with International Development - how they choose their staff (programmers and data scientists) - how they got more name recognition and stability - future plans - the benefits of coworkings Quotes: “It pays off so much to create your own thing, to be your own boss. There is just nothing like that" "just stop thinking about it and do it" "famines don't happen because people don't know how to farm, famines happen because you have unstable government. Usually famines are political in nature" "there's nothing like that feeling of working on something brand new and fresh.” "you get so much more respect from customers than you do from bosses (…) They're respectful of your time in a way that you just don't see that much in an employee/employer relationships" "could make a lot more money than they're making now and have complete freedom by just quitting their jobs and doing the exact same thing as a consultant, or as a freelancer just as an individual. " Notes: <a href="http://joel.is/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Joel Gaicoigne, from Buffer</a> <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">d3 visualizations by Mike Bostock</a> <a href="http://remoteok.io/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">remoteok.io</a> <a href="http://Nomadlist.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nomadlist.com</a> <a href="https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/talent" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a> <a href="http://www.aidtransparency.net/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">International Aid Transparency Initiative</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/maripimentashow/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/maripimentashow/message</a>

Herb Caudill, Founder and CTO of DevResults, a web tool for international humanitarian assistance & disaster relief programs

When I asked the manager of my coworking in Barcelona, which member there he thought had the most exciting career, he immediately told me it was Herb Caudill   I checked his website and was impressed with how they were helping the world.    DevResults monitors, evaluates, maps, manages and collaborates w/ international development programs in the field, and has been used in 18 countries to manage over $2 billion in foreign assistance. Not only this software helps the humanitarian organizations, governments and donors get more clarity on their figures, it directly assists all of us, who also partially pay for it.    He reminds us that simple, smart solutions to big problems can generate some very exciting careers. A company aligned with the future, that lets their team of 11 people work remotely, from anywhere they want.    He grew up in Panama and Ecuador, then worked in Africa, US and then chose Barcelona, of course, to live with his family. 😃 Goes to work by bicycle, plays piano, speaks 6 to 7 languages. You know that saying “surround yourself with people you want to be like?”. That's how lucky some coworkers are to have doers like Herb around.           We talk about:    - what is a real world problem? - how they help people who solve real world problems, do their jobs better - how his software makes international development more accountable &amp; more transparent - the International Aid Transparency - wishes to make the software more of a planning and management and less of a reporting tool, not completely US focused  - how his experience living in Panama, Ecuador and Africa helped him develop DevResults and work with International Development - how they choose their staff (programmers and data scientists)  - how they got more name recognition and stability  - future plans - the benefits of coworkings         Quotes:   “It pays off so much to create your own thing, to be your own boss. There is just nothing like that"    "just stop thinking about it and do it"      "famines don't happen because people don't know how to farm, famines happen because you have unstable government. Usually famines are political in nature"    "there's nothing like that feeling of working on something brand new and fresh.”     "you get so much more respect from customers than you do from bosses (…) They're respectful of your time in a way that you just don't see that much in an employee/employer relationships"   "could make a lot more money than they're making now and have complete freedom by just quitting their jobs and doing the exact same thing as a consultant, or as a freelancer just as an individual. "       Notes:   Joel Gaicoigne, from Bufferd3 visualizations by Mike Bostockremoteok.ioNomadlist.com Stack OverflowInternational Aid Transparency Initiative

When I asked the manager of my coworking in Barcelona, which member there he thought had the most exciting career, he immediately told me it was <a href="http://www.devresults.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Herb Caudill</a>   I checked his website and was impressed with how they were helping the world.    DevResults monitors, evaluates, maps, manages and collaborates w/ international development programs in the field, and has been used in 18 countries to manage over $2 billion in foreign assistance. Not only this software helps the humanitarian organizations, governments and donors get more clarity on their figures, it directly assists all of us, who also partially pay for it.    He reminds us that simple, smart solutions to big problems can generate some very exciting careers. A company aligned with the future, that lets their team of 11 people work remotely, from anywhere they want.   He grew up in Panama and Ecuador, then worked in Africa, US and then chose Barcelona, of course, to live with his family. 😃 Goes to work by bicycle, plays piano, speaks 6 to 7 languages. You know that saying <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-rohn-youre-the-average-of-the-five-people-you-spend-the-most-time-with-2012-7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“surround yourself with people you want to be like?”.</a> That's how lucky some coworkers are to have doers like Herb around.       We talk about:   - what is a real world problem? - how they help people who solve real world problems, do their jobs better - how his software makes international development more accountable &amp; more transparent - the International Aid Transparency - wishes to make the software more of a planning and management and less of a reporting tool, not completely US focused  - how his experience living in Panama, Ecuador and Africa helped him develop DevResults and work with International Development - how they choose their staff (programmers and data scientists)  - how they got more name recognition and stability  - future plans - the benefits of coworkings     Quotes:   “It pays off so much to create your own thing, to be your own boss. There is just nothing like that"   "just stop thinking about it and do it"   "famines don't happen because people don't know how to farm, famines happen because you have unstable government. Usually famines are political in nature"   "there's nothing like that feeling of working on something brand new and fresh.”   "you get so much more respect from customers than you do from bosses (…) They're respectful of your time in a way that you just don't see that much in an employee/employer relationships"   "could make a lot more money than they're making now and have complete freedom by just quitting their jobs and doing the exact same thing as a consultant, or as a freelancer just as an individual. "       Notes:   <a href="http://joel.is" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joel Gaicoigne, from Buffer</a><a href="http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">d3 visualizations by Mike Bostock</a><a href="http://remoteok.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">remoteok.io</a><a href="Nomadlist.com%20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nomadlist.com </a><a href="https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/talent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a><a href="http://www.aidtransparency.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">International Aid Transparency Initiative</a>

ECP 008 - Herb Caudill, Founder and CTO of DevResults, a web tool for international humanitarian assistance & disaster relief programs

How do you go about monitoring and tracking the work that you've accomplished as an implementer of humanitarian aid or development assistance? This question has been answered 1000s of times by 100s of organizations around the world. Even though we're in the year 2016, the reality of tracking progress for the vast majority of initiatives out there is one of two things: written reports in Microsoft Word or numbers on an Excel spreadsheet.... that then get translated into a narrative report in Word. I'm not kidding. I've been evaluating programming in this world for more than 10 years and I have yet to be hired for an assignment where, as a first step, my client sends me a username and password for their online information management that has the ability to instantly report on total program progress with a complete package of visualization and analytical tools. This isn't to say this doesn't exist: in fact, when I first cut my teeth in development with a large NGO back in the early 2000s, they already had built an internal, web based monitoring system. And I've seen a bunch of flavors of the same type of thing in organizations around the globe. For some reason, even though there have been countless attempts at making this process better, at the project level, we still revert back to spreadsheets and reports. Herb Caudill is on a mission to change all of that. As my guest today for the 104th episode of Terms of Reference, the founder of DevResults thinks we might finally be at a stage where data, connectivity and capacity are all at levels that real time project analysis and management is possible. Herb loves to make elegant and efficient systems that solve real-world problems. He is a data-visualization geek, a graphic designer, and a programmer, he started out building websites and software for international development organizations, including USAID, the World Bank, GIZ, DFID, the World Resources Institute, and Chemonics International. Herb grew up in Latin America and worked in Africa for 5 years, first teaching high-school math with the Peace Corps and then working on internet connectivity initiatives with USAID.

How do you go about monitoring and tracking the work that you've accomplished as an implementer of humanitarian aid or development assistance? This question has been answered 1000s of times by 100s of organizations around the world. Even though we're in the year 2016, the reality of tracking progress for the vast majority of initiatives out there is one of two things: written reports in Microsoft Word or numbers on an Excel spreadsheet.... that then get translated into a narrative report in Word. I'm not kidding. I've been evaluating programming in this world for more than 10 years and I have yet to be hired for an assignment where, as a first step, my client sends me a username and password for their online information management that has the ability to instantly report on total program progress with a complete package of visualization and analytical tools. This isn't to say this doesn't exist: in fact, when I first cut my teeth in development with a large NGO back in the early 2000s, they already had built an internal, web based monitoring system. And I've seen a bunch of flavors of the same type of thing in organizations around the globe. For some reason, even though there have been countless attempts at making this process better, at the project level, we still revert back to spreadsheets and reports. Herb Caudill is on a mission to change all of that. As my guest today for the 104th episode of Terms of Reference, the founder of DevResults thinks we might finally be at a stage where data, connectivity and capacity are all at levels that real time project analysis and management is possible. Herb loves to make elegant and efficient systems that solve real-world problems. He is a data-visualization geek, a graphic designer, and a programmer, he started out building websites and software for international development organizations, including USAID, the World Bank, GIZ, DFID, the World Resources Institute, and Chemonics International. Herb grew up in Latin America and worked in Africa for 5 years, first teaching high-school math with the Peace Corps and then working on internet connectivity initiatives with USAID.

TOR104: DevResults with Herb Caudill