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Engineering Culture by InfoQ

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Software 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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Avoiding Burnout and Overload Using Cognitive Systems Engineering 04.08.2023 29:34

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Laura Maguire about how cognitive systems engineering can help manage stress and burnout in teams and organisations. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Kt5nVt Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco...

Four Pillars of Digital Transformation 28.07.2023 27:49

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Asif Iqbal about the four pillars of digital transformation. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/3NcAgiR Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco https://qconsf.com/ Oct 2-6, 2023 QCon London https://qconl...

Whatever the Challenge – it’s Always About the People 21.07.2023 19:48

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Satish Jayanthi CTO of Coalesce about building communication and collaboration skills, avoiding burnout and helping managers facilitate, help and motivate their teams. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Q1op99 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsl...

Advice for Remote and Hybrid Leaders 14.07.2023 22:02

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Julien Danjou of Mergify about creating good remote and hybrid working environments. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/3JXlSZO Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco https://qconsf.com/ Oct 2-6, 2023 QCon Lon...

Techno-solutionism, Ethical Technologists and Practical Data Privacy 07.07.2023 26:19

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Katherine Jarmul of Thoughtworks about the dangers of techno-solutionism, challenges in ethical application of technology and her book Practical Data Privacy. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3XD2K93 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upc...

Jim Highsmith Looking Back and Looking Forward 26.06.2023 32:57

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Jim Highsmith, looking back on six decades in software engineering and his new book Wild West to Agile. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3PwpntO Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco qconsf.com/ Oct 2-6, 2...

Charity Majors on Intentional Culture, Dual Track Careers and AIOPS 16.06.2023 28:55

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Charity Majors about enabling culture, the pendulum swing between engineering and management, rethinking career paths and opportunities challenges with AIOPS. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3p9gcVl Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsle...

Exploring Staff-Plus Engineering Roles with Fabiane Nardon 09.06.2023 23:16

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Fabiane Nardon about the Staff Plus career pathway and what it takes to become a data engineer. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3qwLjdR Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco https://qconsf.com/ Oc...

Continuing the Culture and Methods Trends Conversation 26.05.2023 27:40

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ben Linders about current trends in the culture and methods space. Read a transcript of this interview: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/culture-methods-trends/ Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon New York qconnewyork.com/?utm_sour...

Data Privacy, Retention and Security Challenges and Opportunities 19.05.2023 20:02

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Shiva Nathan about data security, privacy, retention and enabling a security mindset in development. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/41AnBKl Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon New York qconnewyork.com/?utm_so...

Hiring and Growing Great Site Reliability Engineers 12.05.2023 19:11

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Narayanan Raghavan, Senior Director for Site Reliability Engineering for Managed Services at Red Hat, about hiring and growing. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3NRVnYg Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon New Y...

Creating a Developer-Centric Culture and Building Platform as Runtime 05.05.2023 20:00

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Aviran Mordo of Wix about creating a developer-centric culture, building a platform as runtime environment to speed up development and shifting left in design through developer and designer pairing. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3LYosAc Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.info...

Building Trust and Safety in Remote Teams at Shopify 28.04.2023 20:40

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Jesse McGinnis of Shopify about building trust and safety in remote teams and developing yourself as a leader. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3LBIlg6 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon New York qconnewyork.c...

Work-life Integration and the Modern Workplace 24.04.2023 32:22

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke Peter Miscovich co-author of the book The Workplace You Need Now: Shaping Spaces for the Future of Work about creating human-centric working environments where work-life integration of mental wellbeing, social wellbeing, and physical wellbeing matter. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3H4iY44 Subscribe to the S...

Moving from Technical Contributor to People Leader with Lena Reinhard 07.04.2023 23:47

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Lena Reinhard about new skills that are needed when moving from an individual contributor role to a people leader, communicating outside of engineering and the layoffs in tech. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/41e20rD Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software...

Culture & Methods Trends in 2023 31.03.2023 56:17

In this podcast the whole Culture & Methods editorial team plus Rebecca Parsons, CTO of Thoughtworks, explore the trends they see happening in the technology industry in 2023 Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3G3dwxS Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campai...

Becoming a Great Engineering Manager and Balancing Synchronous - Asynchronous Work 20.03.2023 31:01

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify and Track Host at QCon San Francisco for the Remote and Hybrid Work: What’s Next track, about what makes a great engineering manager, nurturing culture with 14000 remote workers and deliberately balancing synchronous and asynchronous work. Read a transcript of this interview:...

How to Become an Effective Communicator as an Engineer 10.03.2023 20:34

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Neil Thompson of teachthegeek.com about how to build great communication skills as a technologist. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3mEZuvl Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=...

Establishing SRE Foundations with Vladyslav Ukis 06.03.2023 27:29

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Vladyslav Ukis about his new book, Establishing SRE Foundations. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ZnbX5p Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon...

Internships Enabling Effective Collaboration Between Universities and Companies 26.02.2023 19:36

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Lukáš Hermann about collaboration with universities, internship programs and growing leadership skills. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Y28ZBN Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_camp...

Being Opiniated About the Engineering Culture you want to Build 17.02.2023 22:30

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Viraj Mody about creating great developer experience through being opiniated and deliberate about the culture you want to build. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3S4T3gV Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&ut...

Hiring and Retaining Great People in the New World of Working 06.02.2023 29:10

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sarah Hawley of Growmotely about employing and retaining people in the remote and hybrid working world. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3JN6VtU Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_camp...

Delivering Great Software and Building Great Teams at CircleCI 29.01.2023 27:15

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rob Zuber, CTO of Circle CI, about what it takes to build and deliver great software and build great teams Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Y7Xqtq Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_c...

Great Products Need a Culture of Quality and Passionate People 13.01.2023 34:25

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Melissa Daley, Bob Crews and Adam Sandman, speakers at the InflectraCON 2022 State of Testing conference, about the state of testing and how to instil a culture of quality into software teams. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3GB6FLs Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IV...

People Matter Most in Organisational Change 06.01.2023 29:25

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Simon Powers about why organisational change is hard, putting people first, the need for emergence rather than recipes and his new book Change: A practitioners guide to Enterprise Agile Coaching Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3IoLONV Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3...