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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Conal Scanlon on Monte Carlo Mapping
December 19, 2017 00:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 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 Conal Scanlon about his talk at QCon New York on Monte Carlo Simulation for forecasting feature development Why listen to this podcast: • Knowledge work is inherently variable, and estimates are inevitably incorrect • Monte Carlo simulation projects likely completion based on past history rather than future guesses • ...
Dave West on the State of Scrum and the Future of Agile
December 11, 2017 00:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO and chief product owner at Scrum.org, about the state of Scrum in 2017 and the future of agile. Why listen to this podcast: • Agile adoption is now in the late-majority phase of the adoption curve; large organisations who are risk averse have seen the ideas proven elsewhere and they are adopting them • The underlying issues are not that complicated – we’ve got customers who have needs that they can’t e...
Kent McDonald and Heather Mylan-Mains on Socratic Questioning
December 06, 2017 04:06 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kent McDonald and Heather Mylan-Mains on their talk at Agile 2017 about Socratic Questioning Why listen to this podcast: - Socratic questioning n approach to learning which is based on getting to answers through a question-based dialogue - Frequently what is presented at the beginning of a product investigation is a proposed solution rather than exploring the real need - There are six categories of questions to exp...
Anders Wallgren on Containerize Your Enthusiasm
November 28, 2017 00:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud about the adoption of DevOps, containers and microservices and the dangers of vanity metrics. Why listen to this podcast: - Adoption of containers is increasing – one survey indicated 42% of organizations surveyed are using them for something - Container orchestration platforms are good at managing the challenges around scaling and resilience - Architecture is a significant chall...
Jason Yip on Removing Friction in Development and DevOps at Spotify
November 22, 2017 00:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Yip about removing friction in the developer experience and DevOps at Spotify Why listen to this podcast: • Friction is the feeling that your environment is fighting you – examples include poorly named variables in code, editors configured incorrectly, access to environments etc • These things often seem small individually, but together they significantly and slow down development activities • Cultivate refined...
Josh Evans on DevOps at Netflix
November 13, 2017 00:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Josh Evans, former engineering manager at Netflix on how Netflix does DevOps and the freedom and responsibility culture that undermines their way of working. Why listen to this podcast: • There are many interpretations of the term DevOps, it is a useful shorthand for a wide variety of technologies and approaches • “You build it, you run it” is the concrete application of the freedom and responsibility culture • When...
Sean Dunn & Chris Edwards on Ethics and Professionalism in Software Engineering
November 06, 2017 00:00 - 22 minutes - 22.6 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sean Dunn and Chris Edwards about professionalism, licensing and ethics in software engineering Why listen to this podcast: • Situations where software development intersects with the public interest are widening and software can impact the health and wellbeing of society • The distinguishing characteristic of a profession is holding paramount the public interest • Unlike the failure of a bridge unethical results fro...
Don Denoncourt on Aging in IT and Being a Lifelong Learner
October 30, 2017 00:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Don Denoncourt about remaining an engineer as one ages. Why listen to this podcast: • Looking back over history and programming language changes since the early 1980’s • The importance of lifelong learning and putting your personal time into remaining relevant and up to date with new development platforms • New graduates get to work on new things because they have just learned about them and they are prepared to take...
Andrea Goulet & M. Scott Ford on the Marriage of Communication & Code
October 23, 2017 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Andrea Goulet & M. Scott Ford about their journey working together as a married couple and business partners, learning to collaborate and communicate despite having vastly different communication styles and viewpoints. Why listen to this podcast: - Effective communication is a competitive advantage - The system that you produce will only be as good as the communication structure you have in place while you build it ...
Pavneet Saund on Practical Empathy
October 16, 2017 21:48 - 20 minutes - 18.5 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, Pavneet Saund about his ideas on making empathy a superpower and effective team leadership Why listen to this podcast: - Showing and receiving empathy is truly life-changing - The need to assume good intent when communicating using chat and written words - Leadership is a different set of skills from technology and these nee...
Lee Cunningham on the 11th State of Agile Survey Results
October 09, 2017 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Lee Cunningham of VersionOne about the results from the State of Agile Survey Why listen to this podcast: • Agile is not just something that developers do – it’s an enabler of business outcomes • The emergence of multi-modal organisations where there are multiple different approaches being used simultaneously which holds them back from progressing effectively • Some organisations are adopting a Taylorism approach to agil...
Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths on the Agile Alliance/PMI Agile Practice Guide
October 03, 2017 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Johanna Rothman and Mike Grifiths about the joint PMI & Agile Alliance initiative to produce the Agile Practice Guide. Why listen to this podcast: - There is nothing in the PMBOK that says you have to use a waterfall project delivery model - If we want to influence the people who hold the hearts and minds of senior management, there is no better way than to collaborate with them - The guide reflects the State of th...
ThoughtWorks' CTO Rebecca Parsons on Courageous Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture
September 25, 2017 10:24 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks, about their recent report on the need for Courageous Leadership and her forthcoming book on Evolutionary Architecture. Why listen to this podcast: - Courageous leadership enables organisations to solve enterprise-scale problems while still allowing empowered development teams to produce software in an agile fashion - The importance of making the link between technology advances and...
Joshua Kerievsky and Heidi Helfand on High Performance via Psychological Safety
September 18, 2017 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Joshua Kerievsky CEO of Industrial Logic and Heidi Helfand Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies and author of the book Dynamic Reteaming about their talk High Performance via Psychological Safety Why listen to this podcast: • You cannot have a high performing team unless you have psychological safety • Creating a safe environment is hard, and it must go beyond just lip service • Take the time to h...
Denise Jacobs on Banishing Your Inner Critic
September 11, 2017 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Denise Jacobs about her keynote talk on Banishing your Inner Critic. Why listen to this podcast: • Imposter syndrome is a real thing and it has many manifestations • Getting into a flow state results in massive productivity increases and is highly rewarding • Creativity is a practice and needs to be exercised • Creativity Denial is rife in the tech industry – “I’m not creative”, whereas many technical skills require ...
David Marquet on the Difference Between Red-Work and Blue-Work
September 04, 2017 00:00 - 16 minutes - 15.4 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 David Marquet about his keynote talk at the recent Agile 2017 conference and his book – Turn the Ship Around. Why listen to this podcast: - Create organizations for the future that have the right balance of thinking (blue-work) and doing (red-work) - The person doing the work has much more contextual information abou...
Jez Humble on Making Continuous Delivery Work and Responding to Discrimination in Tech
August 14, 2017 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jez Humble about his Agile 2017 Keynote talk in which he refuted many of the common excuses why “continuous delivery won’t work here”. He also gave a scathing response to the “Manifestbro” controversy which recently unfolded at Google. Why listen to this podcast: Key takeaways about DevOps: - There are many reasons cited for not adopting DevOps – the real reasons are cultural and architectural issues - It takes co...
Patrick Kua on Growing Technical Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture
August 07, 2017 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 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 Patrick Kua from ThoughtWorks on growing technical leadership and evolutionary architecture Why listen to this podcast: - There is a significant gap in technical leadership capability in teams and across the industry as a whole - Your experience as a developer doesn’t prepare you for a tech lead roleRecognize that th...
Larry Cooper on Putting Value First & Cultural Agility
July 31, 2017 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Larry Cooper about the Agility Series – a collection of books and other resources which explore what agility means in many different dimensions. Why reading to this podcast: - Value management is about doing the right thing, rather than doing lots of stuff, right - The reason for doing something should always trace back to an organisational strategic goal, and if it doesn’t then we’re wasting the organisation’s mone...
Debbie Madden on Forming and Maintaining Great Teams
July 24, 2017 00:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBIn this podcast recorded at QCon New York 2017 Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Debbie Madden, CEO of Stride on communication advice and techniques for technical teams and what it takes for build truly great teams. Why listen to this podcast: - The most effective teams have a true advantage in today’s organisations - The danger of coddling “rock star” performers - Create working environments that are flexible, welcoming and diverse - The value of healthy conflic...
Alex Qin on Leveraging Technology to Create Positive Social Change
July 10, 2017 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alex Qin following on from her QCon London talk “Shaving My Head Made Me A Better Programmer”. Why listen to this podcast: - Casual discrimination and unconscious bias is rife in society, and very prevalent in tech - The need to have many more people in the field who don’t fit the preconceived mould of a programmer - The complexity of the overall system means we need to tackle discrimination at many levels in many d...
Experiences in the Submarine Service and Tackling Big Issues Using Startup Weekend Events
June 26, 2017 00:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this podcast recorded in London Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Colart Miles about leading towards innovative cultures and running startup weekends. Why listen to this podcast: - It’s not about rank or status – it’s about the value you bring to the team environment - Identifying a process for bringing an idea from inception to market and sharing that with others through Startup Weekends - Startup Weekend events in 160 countries, over 500000 people have p...
Colin Breck from Tesla on Quality Views to Expose Technical Debt
June 20, 2017 00:00 - 13 minutes - 12 MBIn this podcast recorded in London Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Colin Breck, an Egineer from Tesla about using quality views to expose and prioritize technical debt. Why listen to this podcast: • When systems are not customer facing, quality is not directly obvious and is frequently overlooked • Quality views provide a visual way of exposing quality in a system block diagram • Quality is a subjective – the value is in the conversations rather than the numbers...
Alanna Brown and Nicole Forsgren on the State of DevOps Report 2017
June 12, 2017 00:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBManuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to Alanna Brown Director of Technical Product Marketing at Puppet and Nicole Forsgren, PhD in Management Information Systems and CEO at DORA, on the State of DevOps Report 2017. Why listen to this podcast: - Three new areas of research in 2017: leadership, automation and organizational performance for non-financial organizations. - Transformational leaders have a clear business vision and communicate in an inspiring way, and provide intelle...
John Willis on DevOps Evolution, Leadership and Burnout
June 05, 2017 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBManuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to John Willis, Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker and co-author of the "DevOps Handbook", on DevOps evolution, leadership and burnout. Why listen to this podcast: - DevOps got watered down along the way, but its principles and practices will stay. - People can learn the technical side of DevOps with training but they need to follow up on case studies from organizations that went through similar journeys. - Still early days to be...
Rosalind Radcliffe on the Non-Challenges to Continuous Delivery on Mainframe
May 29, 2017 00:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBManuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer at IBM, about mainframe software delivery, from technical evolution to the mindset change required to adopt DevOps and modern development practices. Why listen to this podcast: - Large organizations have not evolved practices in mainframe systems due to cultural challenges, not technical. - Most mainframe applications still have high business value but don't take advantage of modern hardware. -...
Gene Kim on Scaling DevOps and Learning from Courageous "Horses" at the DevOps Enterprise Summit
May 22, 2017 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this podcast Manuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to Gene Kim, co-author of the "DevOps Handbook" and "The Phoenix Project" books, on how to scale DevOps in large organizations ("horses") and the need for continuous learning and adaptation. Why listen to this podcast: - DevOps Enterprise Summit focuses on continuously learning from leaders elevating technical practices and cultural norms at large, complex organizations. - Remaining challenges in large organizations include ...
Adam Tornhill on Good Engineering Culture, Technical Debt and Ways to Reduce Inter-Team Conflict
May 15, 2017 00:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Adam Tornhill of Empear on combining psychology and software engineering, technical debt. Why listen to this podcast: - The problems in software engineering are not technical they are almost always people related - A lot of technical debt is not actually technical in nature – it is due to organisational and social...
Jason Hand on DevOps Culture and Powerful Post-Mortems
May 08, 2017 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Hand of VictorOps about the DevOps culture, what ChatOps is and powerful post-mortems. Why listen to this podcast: - The misaligned incentives between development and operations in many organisations - The need to instil a sense of ownership across the whole delivery organisation where everyone takes responsibility for solving problems, rather than saying “that’s not my job” - There is no roadmap to cha...
Portia Tung on the Critical Importance of Play in the Workplace
May 01, 2017 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this podcast, Shane Hastie speaks to Portia Tung, founder of the School of Play, author and executive coach, about the critical importance of play in the workplace. Why listen to this podcast: - Culture is defined by what people say and think, based on what’s expected of them and the environment they are in - You don’t change culture – you grow it. Culture is emergent based on the ingredients you put into the mix for growing it - The high rates of depression and burnout in high-tech ...
Chris Matts on BDD, Real Options, Risk Management and the Impact of Culture for Effective Outcomes
April 24, 2017 00:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBShane Hastie spoke to Chris Matts “The IT Risk Manager”, one of the original thinkers behind Real Options, Feature Injection and Behaviour Driven Development, about BDD, Real Options, Risk Management and the Impact of Culture for Effective Outcomes. Why listen to this podcast: - Real Options is about translating the ideas from financial risk management into IT projects - Understanding that things go wrong and that what is thought of as the last responsible moment is often actually too lat...
Grandview Prep on Using Scrum in Schools
April 10, 2017 20:25 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBShane Hastie, Lead Editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Susan Rose and Aileen Palmer of Grandview Prep about their experiences using Scrum in their school environment. Why listen to this podcast: • Taking on Agile & Scrum as a way to get things happening more effectively in the school • Agile/Scrum is a natural fit for the education environment • These are skills which students will take with them and are crucial to success in the 21st century workplace • Not imposed as a mandate,...
Betty Zakheim of Tasktop on Software Development as a Value Stream
April 03, 2017 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Betty Zakheim, VP of Industrial Strategy for Tasktop and treating software development as a value stream which starts with an idea and goes through to getting feedback from real customers. Why listen to this podcast: - We often forget about the aspects of the requirements which are beyond the written word - Debunking the stereotypes of software developmentUsing the Definition of Done to encourage shifting res...
Kaila Colbin on the Nature of Technological Innovation and the Implications for Society
March 27, 2017 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this podcast, recorded at the Agile New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kaila Colbin from the Ministry of Awesome and Singularity University about the Nature of Technological Innovation and the Implications for Society Why listen to this podcast: - The nature of technological innovation and the implications for society - The doubling curve which shows how innovations advance (eg Moore’s Law) - The doubling in price-performance trend ...
Dave West on Craftsmanship, the Future of Scrum and Improving the Profession of Software Delivery
March 20, 2017 00:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this podcast, recorded at the Agile New Zealand conference in November 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David West, CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org, about the history of Scrum, the importance of empiricism and improving the profession of software delivery. Why listen to this podcast: - Between 12 and 15 million people use Scrum on a daily basis - Scrum.org’s mission is about improving the profession of software delivery, not having more people us...
Richard Kasperowski on Building High Performing Teams and the Core Protocols
March 13, 2017 00:00 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Richard Kasperowski at the QCon San Francisco conference. Why listen to this podcast: - Agile is not new, and the ideas help organisations focus on building the right thing and building it right - High performing teams have some specific characteristics which can be measured - Over 200 different things have been identified as “the one thing” needed for high performance - All the research shows that the soc...
Michael Lopp on Designing Culture for Sustainable Growth
March 06, 2017 00:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBIn our podcast this week Shane Hastie speaks to Michael Lopp, VP of Engineering at Slack, about intentional culture and continuous delivery. Why listen to this podcast: - Leadership is a craft that needs to be learned - Characteristics and common challenges of high-growth startups - Aspects of culture include how do we get things done, how do we treat each other, how do we make decisions, who has power and influence, what are the things that we value? - The importance of making values e...
Ted DesMaisons & Lisa Rowland on How Improv Improves Collaboration and Teamwork
February 27, 2017 00:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ted DesMaisons and Lisa Rowland who spoke at QCon San Francisco on The Improvisor's Code: Engineering Your Best Self Why listen to this podcast: - The skills of improve are applicable outside a theatrical setting - You don’t have to be an extrovert to use these ideas - These are intra-personal skills as well as inter-personal – they help develop mindfulness and awareness at the individual level - The study o...
Lianping Chen on Implementing Continuous Delivery
February 20, 2017 00:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBIn this podcast Ben Linders, an InfoQ editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Lianping Chen of Paddy Power about their adoption of continuous delivery. Why listen to this podcast: - An introduction to continuous delivery - It is possible and feasible to go faster while maintaining and improving the quality of the products being built - The benefits from adopting continuous delivery include reduced time from completing development to getting product into production and getting fast...
Doug Kirkpatrick on Transforming Organisations Towards Empowered Self-Organising Teams
February 13, 2017 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Doug Kirkpatrick, organisational change expert, author and advocate for new ways of working. Why listen to this podcast: • Decentralization is replacing hierarchy and bureaucracy. Organisations need to be directly connected to the outside world and agilely adapt to changes in their ecosystems • The idea of people managing other people will fade and be replaced by people connecting to a mission and meaning, a...
Pat Reed on the need for Business Agility and Value Innovation
February 06, 2017 00:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pat Reed of iHoriz about value innovation, adaptive leadership and what’s needed to create real business agility. Why listen to this podcast: - Business agility is about adapting and thriving in extreme uncertainty - Make value visible – really understand who your customer is and how value is derived in your organisation, then focus on only doing things that truly add value - The management practice of “doin...
Matt Sakaguchi on the Key to High Performing Teams at Google
January 30, 2017 00:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Sakaguchi about his talk at QCon San Francisco 2016 and the research Google has done on what makes effective teams. Why listen to this podcast: - Psychological safety – people feel comfortable taking a risk or asking a question and know they will be supported by their team mates, they feel safe to share personal and “crazy” ideas - Dependability – the knowledge that team mates will deliver quality outputs...
Sara Bayless Da Costa on the Skills Designers Need to Be Effective with New Technologies
January 23, 2017 00:00 - 14 minutes - 13 MBShane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sara Bayless Da Costa, visual storyteller and design thinking evangelist at Fjord. Bayless Da Costa gave a talk at QCon San Francisco on Rapid Prototyping Methods. They spoke about prototyping, collaborative design, designing for new interfaces and new skills that designers need in order to be successful with new technologies. Why listen to this podcast: - The importance of taking a collaborative design approach with multipl...
Alexandre Freire Kawakami on Enabling Engineering Culture
January 16, 2017 00:00 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBIn this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alexandre Freire Kawakami, a Director at Industrial Logic about his talk Enabling Awesome Engineering Teams, the ideas behind Modern Agile and the importance of feedback loops and real usage data for product development. Why listen to this podcast: - Overview of his talk on enabling awesome engineering teamsThe contradiction between values-driven and process-driven change - Modern Agile is designed to help peo...
Mitch Shepard on Managing for Diversity
January 09, 2017 00:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBIn this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mitch Shepard founder of WiRL about her talk at QCon and the challenges around gender diversity in the tech workforce. Why listen to this podcast: - Gender diversity and women leaving tech roles is a real and serious problem - There are compelling reasons to have a more diverse workplace – both ethical and bottom line results - “It’s nobody’s fault, but it is everybody’s p...
Deliberately Designing Culture at Ocado Technology
December 26, 2016 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Douglas Talbot, Head of Organisational Effectiveness for Ocado Technology, about the challenges and opportunities involved in creating a culture of innovation and agility in “a technology company that also does retail”. Why listen to this podcast: - Differences in the way IT is approached in different parts of...
Amber Case on Modern UIs and the Importance of Quiet Technology
December 19, 2016 00:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist. Case explains why VR is an important step along the way to Augmented Reality, how technology needs to fit in with social norms, and why calm technology is so important. Why listen to this podcast: - We are all cyborgs now - There is a clea...
Why Agile Works
December 12, 2016 00:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, recorded at Agile 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael de la Maza and David Benz about their minibook Why Agile Works, which is available at InfoQ.com. Why listen to this podcast: - In a startup you have to use an Agile approach – it just makes sense - It’s easy to teach practices, but with a foundation in the core values of agile t...
Exploring if Agile is Still Agile
December 05, 2016 00:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2016 conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to five of the leading minds of Agile Management: Steve Denning, Ray Arell, Todd Little, Hendrik Esser and Steve Holyer. They explore the question “Is agile still agile?”, look at the challenges around agile development and product management, and what is needed for large scale ...
Melissa Perri on what's needed for Effective Product Management
November 21, 2016 00:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Melissa Perri, a UX and Product Management expert and founder of Produx Labs. Why listen to this podcast: - Put value first – it’s not about building more stuff but making sure we build the right thing for the right people - Product ownership is about optimising value for the organisation - Managers need to u...