Engineering Culture by InfoQ
354 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSoftware engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to build better, high performing teams by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 500,000 downloads in the last 3 years.
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Chris Bailey on Productivity Hacking and Hyperfocus
April 20, 2020 16:54 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBIn this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Chris Bailey about his book Hyperfocus and techniques for productivity hacking. Why listen to this podcast: • For many of us, having available time is not the problem – it’s having available attention • We all have a chronotype which shows the time of day when we are most productive • Productivity is about more than just managing time – it’s about managing time, energy and attention • Researc...
Jono Bacon on Building Community and Remote Collaboration
April 13, 2020 15:44 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jono Bacon about building communities, the value of community when suddenly working remotely and remote collaboration. Why listen to this podcast: • In the suddenly remote environment caused by COVID-19, community becomes even more important than when teams were mainly collocated • Every business has got an internal community to a degree, often somewhat accidental in nature, but when you become remote you need to lea...
Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson on Mental Health and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 07, 2020 15:43 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBIn this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson from Container Solutions about maintaining mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why listen to this podcast: • Mental health and wellness is not a new challenge for the technology industry, and it is more openly discussed today that is has been previously • The COVID-19 pandemic has put many people into a collective state of shock. • Acknowledging the emotional r...
Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby on Their Book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams
March 30, 2020 20:56 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby about their book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams Why listen to this podcast: • There are important mindset shifts that are needed to help enable distributed teams to be effective • You can’t take practices and approaches that are designed for co-located teams and apply them to distributed teams without adapting them to the new context • Distributed ...
Panel: Suddenly Distributed - Effective Agility in The Age of Coronavirus
March 23, 2020 15:21 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBIn this special edition of the podcast, made in conjunction with Retrium and the Agile Alliance, we brought together a panel of remote working experts to explore and share experiences around what teams and individuals can do to cope and be effective in the environment where so many people are suddenly forced to work from home and collaborate remotely. The panel consisted of: • David Horowitz • Mark Kilby • Lisette Sutherland • Judy Rees • Steve McCann • Charles Humble • Shane Hastie The f...
Andrea Tomasini of Agile 42 on influencing change in complex environments
March 18, 2020 20:09 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Andrea Tomasini on organisational change, sense-making, leadership and organic agility Why listen to this podcast: • Organic Agility is a way to help make organisations more resilient by making culture explicit and visible • You can’t design culture, you can only influence it • Interviews and questionnaires give a limited a biased view of culture – you need other tools to make sense and truly un...
Howard Sublett on current and future state of the Scrum Alliance
March 09, 2020 21:51 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Howard Sublett about the current and future state of the Scrum Alliance. Why listen to this podcast: • When organisations and teams adopt Scrum effectively the difference in atmosphere and attitude to work is palpable • There is still a lot of faux-agile/scrum where practices are adopted witho...
Diana Larsen on the Origins of Agility and Agile Fluency
February 24, 2020 22:19 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Diana Larsen about the origins of what became agile development, where business agility is header and the agile fluency project . Why listen to this podcast: • There is a deep history of business improvement initiatives that predates the agile manifesto • It was a part of a cultural movement that was moving more toward more humane workplaces that could deliver more value • When you give people...
Steve Milligan on Agile Finance and Finding Synergies
February 18, 2020 14:23 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Milligan about his work in Agile Finance and bringing the back-office along on the agile transformation journey. Why listen to this podcast: • The funding of agile initiatives has been largely left outside of the scope of transformation efforts, which results in dysfunction and cross purpose • Agile finance introduces structure so that financial aspects (target setting, budgeting, expend...
Dave West on Agile Beyond Software, Organisational Alignment and Product Ownership is Hard
February 10, 2020 19:19 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBIn this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO of scrum.org about agile beyond software, the need for organisational alignment and how product ownership is a major inhibitor for many organisations because it is not done well. Why listen to this podcast: • Agile ideas are taking root beyond software development, in business areas and in complex engineering environments • The scope of agility is more than just delivering gre...
Caitlin Walker on Clean Language, Anti-Fragility and Inclusiveness
February 03, 2020 15:19 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Caitlin Walker about clean language, anti-fragility and inclusiveness. Why listen to this podcast: • Clean Language is a way of communicating that helps reduce bias and influence in order to help bring clarity to a situation • Clean language questions can be used anywhere where gathering high ...
Steve Persch on Open Source Communities and Tough Challenges in Technical Leadership
January 27, 2020 22:13 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Persch of Panthion about supporting open source communities and leading technical teams Why listen to this podcast: • Communities need to be nurtured and supported • The open source community is based around the idea that you can build on the knowledge of others • Leadership technical teams can be challenging and there are some simple (but not easy) things that can be dome to be better at it • The goal should ...
David McAllister on Building Communities
January 20, 2020 21:24 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David McAllister about building technical communities. Why listen to this podcast: • A community comes together around a common shared interest of some sort • Communities need to be actively nurtured in a similar way to open source projects • Communities require constant tuning, and this means you need to figure out ways to measure them • Different types of content work for different members of the community and in ...
David McAlistair on Building Communities
January 20, 2020 21:24 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David McAlistair about building technical communities. Why listen to this podcast: • A community comes together around a common shared interest of some sort • Communities need to be actively nurtured in a similar way to open source projects • Communities require constant tuning, and this means you need to figure out ways to measure them • Different types of content work for different members of the community and in ...
Kevin Callahan on Positive Organisational Design and Complex Systems
January 13, 2020 15:01 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kevin Callahan about positive organisational design and organisations as complex systems Why listen to this podcast: • Positive organisation development starts with areas where you are strong and builds on those, rather than focusing on weaknesses and negative areas • Involving people to open up “what could be” which...
Arie van Bennekum on the Liquid Manifesto
January 06, 2020 18:55 - 31 minutes - 29 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Arie van Bennekum about Liquid Manifesto, a transformation framework to help organisations shift from old paradigms to new ones. Why listen to this podcast: • The Liquid Manifesto is a transformation framework to help organisations shift from old paradigms to new ones • Changing paradigms is the most difficult thing to do because bringing in new paradigms takes time and old paradigms define reflexes under stress • Y...
Scott Duncan on Examining the Agile Manifesto
January 01, 2020 19:02 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Scott Duncan about his InfoQ book Understanding Agile Values & Principles. An Examination of the Agile Manifesto. Why listen to this podcast: • The Agile Manifesto was written as a set of values and principles for improving software development outcomes • There are many brands, frameworks and methodologies which were represented at the Snowbird Lightweight Methods Conference where the manifesto was written • The autho...
The InfoQ Podcast Hosts Take a Look Back at 2019, Discussing Teal, Edge, Quantum Computing, and more
December 17, 2019 08:45 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this special year-end wrap-up podcast Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Daniel Bryant, and Charles Humble discuss what we’ve seen in 2019 and speculate a little on what we hope to see in 2020. Topics include business agility and Teal, what it means to be an ethical engineer, bringing your whole self to work, highlights from QCon and InfoQ during 2019, the rise of Python, and progress in quantum computing. Why listen to this podcast: * Business agility is one of the major themes that the InfoQ tea...
Ivar Jacobson on Use Case 2.0
December 02, 2019 21:34 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Ivar Jacobson about his work on the latest approach to use cases – Use Case 2.0. This is the second of two podcasts with Ivar – the first one exploring the Essence of Software can be found here: http://bit.ly/2OQEi2s Why listen to this podcast: • Use Case 2.0 expand on the ideas embodied in user stories • Some up-front design is needed in all software development projects • For any product you need the skeleton system t...
Michael & Audree Sahota on Being Better Leaders
November 25, 2019 22:10 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, recorded at the Agile on the Beach New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael & Audree Sahota about their work on helping leaders change to enable high performance Why listen to this podcast • Organisational transformation is about a deep shift from our current way of working and being into a completely different way of working ...
Maartje & Fennande of Happy Office on Creating a Culture of Happiness at Work
November 20, 2019 20:32 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBIn this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Maartje Wolff and Fennande van der Meulen. Why listen to this podcast: • If you want to transform organisations and make them future-proof, then happiness is crucial to success because happy people get better outcomes • When people feel they have a meaningful job that contributes to meaningful results, feel connected to their colleagues and are able to have fun at work th...
Dave Farley on Taking Back Software Engineering
November 11, 2019 03:56 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave Farley about what it means to build a real profession of software engineering. Why listen to this podcast: • At the very hard end of computing you need genuine engineering disciplines to be successful • Most of the previous definitions of software engineering have got it wrong because they tried to be too prescriptive • In many ways software development is a fashion ...
Travis Kimmel on What Makes a Good Engineering Manager
November 04, 2019 14:52 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Travis Kimmel of Gitprime about the challenges of being an engineering manager, the value of metrics and how to use them wisely Why listen to this podcast: • There is lots of information about the “stuff” of engineering, but very little on the human processes of engineering • Without a data layer that gives insight in...
Lynne Cazaly on Embracing “ish” and the Dangers of Perfectionism
October 28, 2019 21:27 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBIn this podcast, recorded at the Agile on the Beach New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lynne Cazaly about the dangers of perfectionism and using visual tools to make sense of information and ideas. Why listen to this podcast: • “Ish” has come to mean approximately or good enough • Perfectionism is the opposite of “ish” and is dangerous • We often overcomplicate things and spend inordinate amounts of time trying to achieve a standard that is ...
Ivar Jacobson on the Essence of Software Engineering
October 15, 2019 13:22 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Ivar Jacobson about his work defining the essence of software engineering. Why listen to this podcast: • Method prisons capture mean that the practices of different methods are not seen as complimentary and mixing approaches is very hard • Most large organisations have adopted many methods created by many different gurus ...
Jeff DeLuca on FDD and Transforming Large Organisations to Product Thinking
October 08, 2019 21:24 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff DeLuca, founder of Feature Driven Development and an early agile development pioneer, on the background to FDD, Java modelling with colour and transforming large organisations to product thinking. Why listen to this podcast: • The first value statement of the Agile Manifesto (Individuals and interactions over processes and tools) is the key to agility, and yet agile is often equated with processes and tools toda...
Jeremy Kriegel on Design Innovation and Doc Norton on Tuckman was Wrong
September 30, 2019 12:12 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Jeremy Kriegel about design innovation and then with Doc Norton about why Tuckman was wrong and how dynamic reteaming makes organisations more resilient. Why listen to this podcast: • Working to bring the design and agile communities together because there is a lot o...
Judy Rees on Effective Remote Meetings
September 23, 2019 13:38 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Judy Rees about making remote meetings effective, clean language, the series of articles she is curating for InfoQ and the upcoming remote meeting that our listeners/readers are invited to participate in. Why listen to this podcast: • Remote meetings and the need for remote collaboration is not new • Real, interactive,...
Deborah Hartmann Preuss on Creating Joyful Workplaces
September 09, 2019 08:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Deb Preuss about life coaching, creating joyful workplaces, diversity and inclusion.
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt on the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer
September 02, 2019 01:20 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Thomas and Andrew Hunt about the 20th Anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer. Why listen to this podcast: • The importance of curiosity and the mindset of “still figuring it out” • When you optimize, standardize and make things the same you crush any hope of getting it right • The real spirit of agility is about constantly monitoring what you are doing, constantly trying small changes and constantly get...
Portia Tung on Coaching, Playful Leadership and the Importance of Play at Work
August 26, 2019 13:55 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Portua Tung from the School of Play about agile coaching, helping individuals and organisations adopt a playful leadership style and the importance of play in the workplace. Why listen to this podcast: • Being a coach is learning to become your whole person so you can enable others to live at their full potential • The characteristics of playful leaders are they take calculated risks, the...
Sarah Wells on FT’s Transition to DevOps
August 12, 2019 17:47 - 19 minutes - 18 MBIn this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sarah Wells, Technical Director for Operations and Reliability at the Financial Times about their adoption of DevOps. Why listen to this podcast: • Adopting DevOps is both a technology and a very significant culture change • It’s a big change for most developers to be operating the software they build and if you haven’t done it before, it’s terrifying • A safe culture means not looking...
A. Dobson on Balancing Risk and Psychological Safety and K. Kirk on Escaping Organisational Hell
August 05, 2019 21:24 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this episode recorded at QCon London 2019 Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Andrea Dobson on balancing risk and psychological safety and Katherine Kirk on escaping organisational hell. Why listen to this podcast: • Where people work together we see behaviours that need coaching and that’s where organisational psychologists provide value • Psychological safety...
Tim Falls on Developer Relations, Open Source, Free Education and Ethics
July 11, 2019 13:51 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBIn this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tim Falls of Digital Ocean about developer relations, the importance of embracing and providing open-source software, the need to offer free education in software development and the importance of ethics in education. Why listen to this podcast: • There is a need to take a more open and community-based approach to business • Taking an open-source viewpoint means you can build products and give them away for free w...
Pablo Santos on Creating a Great Engineering Culture, Engaging Remote Workers and DevOps
July 01, 2019 14:07 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pablo Santos of Plastic SCM about what it takes to create a great engineering culture, dealing with skills shortages, engaging remote workers and getting the highest value out of DevOps. Why listen to this podcast: • Attracting the right people is a constant challenge in the technology space • Having interesting and challenging work is important • Remote workers are common today and it’s important to focus on keeping them...
Jossie Haines and Aneri Shah of Tile on Culture, Mentoring, Diversity and Inclusion
June 18, 2019 20:32 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jossie Haines and Aneri Shah of Tile on the culture at Tile, mentoring, diversity & inclusion and retaining women in technology Why listen to this podcast: • Genuine collaborative and supportive cultures don’t just happen • Corporate values need to be real to people, so they feel able to live them every day • Looking at diversity and inclusion is not a stand-alone activity – you need to address all aspects of the em...
Lee Cunningham on the 13th State of Agile Report
June 04, 2019 08:04 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lee Cunningham about the latest State of Agile report, recently released by Collabnet/VersionOne. Why listen to this podcast: • This is the 13th year the State of Agile report has been released • There is a strengthening of momentum towards holistic value stream management • Most organisations are adopting agile for the right reasons: they are trying to accelerate the ability to get software built with high quality ...
Nick White on the Lessons Software Engineering Can Learn from Multi-disciplinary Medical Teams
May 27, 2019 14:44 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick White about his experiences as a medical patient under the care of a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary team and the lessons that we can take from that for software engineering Why listen to this podcast: • The collaborative approach to diagnosis by a multi-disciplinary team of specialists used by the Wellington Regional Hospital Cancer Care Unit • With a complex diagnosis like cancer the range of treatment op...
Michael Bolton on the Testing Mindset
May 20, 2019 20:09 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBIn this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Bolton about the current and future state of testing. Why listen to this podcast: • Testing is about evaluating products by learning about them through exploration and experimentation • These is confusion about the difference between testing a small bit of functionality and the complexity that arises when many of these small bits of software are combined into systems • The common approach of using unit tests and chec...
Dave Snowden on Liminality in Cynefin and Moving Beyond Agile to Agility
May 13, 2019 21:45 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBIn this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave Snowden at the Agile People conference in Stockholm, Sweden, about the addition of liminal spaces in the Cynefin framework, pre-scrum techniques and the future of agility Why listen to this podcast: • The Cynefin Framework provides a perspective on the world • The latest version of the Cynefin framework include two liminal domains • The strength of approaches like Scrum is holding things in a liminal state long enough ...
Fabiola Eyholzer on Changing Thinking in HR
May 06, 2019 07:24 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBIn this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Fabiola Eyholze at the Agile People conference in Stockholm, Sweden, about the need to radically change HR thinking and practices in organisations to enable creativity and productivity. Why listen to this podcast: • The need to create great places of work where people enjoy going to work • It’s about having meaningful work; understanding why we do things and our contribution is to making a positive impact on other peoples’ li...
Doug Kirkpatrick on Self-Management, Professional Growth and Great Cultures
April 29, 2019 16:33 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBIn this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Doug Kirkpatrick at the Agile People conference in Stockholm, Sweden, about what self-management actually means for the people in an organisation. Why listen to this podcast: • Self-management enables everyone in the organisation to thrive and do their best work • It’s not about layers of control, rather it’s dense networks of committed self-managers guided by a clear set of principles • It’s the responsibility of each self-m...
Dave West on the State of Scrum
April 22, 2019 22:59 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO and Product Owner at scrum.org about the current state of scrum and the latest initiatives by scrum.org Why listen to this podcast: • Scrum has been used for over 25 years and people are using it in different areas and the challenges are not around the rudimentary aspects of adoption rather it is about optimising the way of working in different contexts • The need to move beyond adherence to a single approach ...
Phil Abernathy on Employee Happiness and the Bureaucracy Mass Index
April 16, 2019 08:50 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBIn this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Phil Abernathy about his work helping organisations focus on employee happiness to drive customer happiness and shareholder return and the Bureaucracy Mass Index as a tool to identify where companies are bloated and ineffective. He also spoke about what’s needed for real transformation. Why listen to this podcast: • Great companies are realising that in order to attract great talent you have to have a great place to work • I...
Mik Kersten on Moving from Projects to Products
April 09, 2019 18:55 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBShane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mik Kersten of Tasktop about his new book, Project to Product and how the Flow Framework can be applied to changing the way of working in organisations. Why listen to this podcast: • The project model of software development is fundamentally broken • The management techniques which were invented in and needed for managing in the era of industrial revolution are not applicable or useful in the era of software development • Most orga...
Nigel Dalton on Taking Back Management
April 01, 2019 00:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBIn this podcast recorded at the Agile India conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nigel Dalton, Chief Inventor at REA Group about his experiences and the need to take back management as an important practice in today’s organisations Why listen to this podcast: • There is a science of invention – deliberately combining things that you might not have thought of combining before • What matters more than having an agile process is having a resilient organisation ...
Flint Brenton on the Collabnet/VersionOne merger and Helping Customers Adopt Value Streams
March 26, 2019 06:45 - 19 minutes - 18 MBIn this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Flint Brenton, CEO of Collabnet/VersionOne on how the organisation is integrating post the merger and supporting customers as they adopt value stream thinking. Why listen to this podcast: • Reflecting on the way the two businesses have come together since the merger of Collabnet and VersionOne • The company is focusing on supporting value stream management in their customers deve...
Andrew King of Ocado Technologies on Great Hiring Practices and Designing Culture
March 19, 2019 11:02 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Andrew King, Organisational Scientist at Ocado Technologies about the hiring practices they use and how to design the culture you want. Why listen to this podcast: • Context effect says that anything that happens in decision making that is altered by the context in which the decision is made • The compromise effect – when faced with a choice of options we try to avoid the extremes • These types of effects impact hirin...
Jason Box and Paul Johnston on What Technologists can do About Climate Change
March 13, 2019 11:21 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Box and Paul Johnston about the impact climate change is having, how information technology contributes to greenhouse gasses and what technologists can do to help combat it. Why listen to this podcast: • Climate change is the challenge of our time • Data centers are a real problem IRO global warming and greenhouse gas emissions • Data centers have the same emissions impact as the ...
Kim Scott on Radical Candor
March 06, 2019 00:25 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kim Scott, author of the book Radical Candor about what radical candor is and how it can be applied in teams and relationships. Why listen to this podcast: • Radical candor is the behaviour which comes about when people both care personally and are able to challenge directly in a relationship • Telling each other about problems or praising each other in a way that is productive i...