Scaling Software Teams
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsScaling Software Teams is a weekly podcast to help software leaders navigate fast growth without losing the magic that made that growth possible. Every week, we bring you stories of trials, tribulations, and keys to success from high-growth engineering leaders all around the world.
We will learn together about how to scale a world-class engineering organization through hard-won stories about hiring developers, structuring teams, scaling collaboration, and managing managers.
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Managing Change In The Face Of Rapid Growth, Part 1 with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
February 04, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBJacob Kaplan-Moss is a veteran software leader and the co-creator of Django, the python web framework that powers Pinterest, Eventbrite, and Instagram. In addition to authoring the book, The Definitive Guide to Django, Jacob has also led teams at 18F and Heroku. Today, Jacob is considered one of the foremost experts on hiring for software teams that are in that “adolescent” phase between start-up and scale-up. Today’s episode is the first of a two-part interview that we did with Jacob. In to...
Learning The Hard Work Of Hiring, with Randy Syring
January 29, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBRandy Syring is the Chief Executive Developer at Level 12, a custom software development organization in the Louisville area. Randy’s story is a fun one. Growing up, he didn’t have any aspirations to get into software development at all, and today he runs his own software development shop. Originally, Randy wanted to fly Apache helicopters in the Army. Eventually, he set his sights on becoming a pastor. Ultimately, neither of those career paths panned out, and he stumbled into software devel...
Software Hiring Trial By Fire, With Steve Caldwell
January 28, 2019 10:45 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBSteve Caldwell is the VP of Data, Infrastructure, and Security at Springbuk where he leads a fast-growing team that has been hiring like crazy over the past year. Steve has become a widely-respected software leader who is able to grow and manage highly effective development teams. What often gets left out of that conversation, however, is the frequency with which those lessons are learned through trial and error. In our conversation, Steve opens up about the lessons he’s learned about effecti...
Software Hiring Trial By Fire, With Steve Caldwell
January 28, 2019 10:45 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBSteve Caldwell is the VP of Data, Infrastructure, and Security at Springbuk where he leads a fast-growing team that has been hiring like crazy over the past year. Steve has become a widely-respected software leader who is able to grow and manage highly effective development teams. What often gets left out of that conversation, however, is the frequency with which those lessons are learned through trial and error. In our conversation, Steve opens up about the lessons he’s learned about effect...
Managing Mental Health, With Micah Weaver
January 28, 2019 10:30 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBMicah Weaver is the CTO of Bloomerang, a donor management software company for nonprofits. In our conversation, Micah opens up about suffering a panic attack early in his role as CTO and the impact that experience had on his life, and I’m eager to share this powerful conversation with you. Early in his career, Micah never thought he would be the type of person to suffer a panic attack. He had always considered himself a low-stress individual, great at rolling with the punches. Then, one day,...
Avoiding Mis-Hires Through Evidence, With Raman Ohri
January 28, 2019 10:15 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBRaman Ohri is the President of SEP. He builds software teams that helps his clients build exceptional software and systems. SEP is different from many software development shops because their clients work directly with the software engineers themselves. This adds tons of value for the client, but it also makes every new hire more risky. Every software engineer he brings on will be responsible for representing the SEP name to a client, so Raman needs to avoid making the wrong hire at all cost...
Embracing Your Inner “Latent Leader,” With Roger Deetz
January 28, 2019 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBRoger Deetz is the VP of Engineering at Springbuk, a fast-growing scale-up in our hometown of Indianapolis. Before that, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Angie’s Home Services where he led their software engineering modernization project. I got a lot out of this conversation with Roger and especially enjoyed the discussion of the juxtaposition of development work and management work. The transition from what helps us feel productive as a software engineer compared to an engineeri...
Wes Winham | Scaling Software: What's this all about?
January 14, 2019 13:00 - 2 minutes - 3.01 MBMy name is Wes Winham, and I want to help you scale your engineering team. Listen to this episode to understand why I'm passionate about helping your team scale, and what I hope you get out of our podcast. This show is brought to you by Woven. At Woven, we help software teams hit ambitious hiring goals. We do that by improving the fuzziest step in the hiring process: candidate screening. By giving every candidate a fair chance to show what they can do, our customers find more great candidat...