Rob Mitchell on Go Lives and the Habits That Keep Teams Moving
Raving Fans Start Within
In this episode of Raving Fans Start Within, Rob Mitchell shares how he traded a pilot's license for a 20-year career in enterprise software, revealing the late-night team huddles and communication habits that actually keep client deployments from falling apart.
Key Episode Takeaways:
- Real teamwork is proven at 2:00 AM when a client system crashes, not during a PowerPoint presentation on company values.
- People with different backgrounds make the best problem-solvers because they don’t think like typical software engineers.
- When you mentor a junior employee early on, you build a functional partnership that can survive twenty years of corporate mergers.
- Technical teams need a relentless, high-energy focus to push through the exhaustion of brutal deployment cycles.
- Checking every single email before you go to bed isn't micromanagement; it's how you keep an entire project from derailing overnight.
- If you want to know what’s actually happening in your company, step out of the executive suite and spend a day running the front desk.
00:00 Podcast Introduction and Rob Mitchell's Role at Velosio
1:17 Rob Mitchell's 20-Year Journey with Velosio
1:42 Three Professional Careers Before Velosio
3:22 Job Swapping Question
4:15 Most Velosio Experience: Collaboration and Support
5:51 Team Inside Joke and Unexpected Skills
8:56 Theme Song and Daily Completion Ritual
Connect with Rob: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-mitchell-99b0614/
Connect with Robbie Morrison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbiemorrison/
Learn More About Velosio: https://velosio.com
Work at Velosio: https://velosio.com/careers
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