Engineering Culture by InfoQ

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mike Schumacher about the impact of poor digital employee experience and using data to remove friction in the employee experience Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/30OVPAB Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Iovacchini of Kettle about making hybrid working work in the post-pandemic world and the ability to put people space and time together in ways that create successful experiences for employees and organisations. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3wDT40D Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly n...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Amaranatho Robey about playfulness, mindfulness and his journey from AI developer to monk to executive coach. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/2ZOVCwp Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Perry about the important leadership and people skills that technologists are often not trained in, why career coaching can be valuable, being deliberate about career choices and advice for technical leaders. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3nFcKNz Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly new...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Will Burns of IdeasicleX about creativity and idea generation in remote teams. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3E5hZMS Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsle...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Damon Lanphear about recruiting and growing remote teams, hanging the interviewing process, governance as an accelerator of innovation and applying AI to primary healthcare. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3lFpnIt Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsle...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to former Amazon executive John Rossman about the latest edition of his book, The Amazon Way. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3uNQYKk Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.co...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sam McAfee about helping technologists move from being individual contributors to leaders of teams. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3AZHVID Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ken Kousen, Java Champion, NFJS speaker, and author of Kotlin Cookbook, Modern Java Recipes, Making Java Groovy, and Gradle Recipes for Android about his new book Help Your Boss Help You. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3zJfCwU Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq...

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Kristen Buchanan about new approaches to engineer onboarding and reducing time to productivity for new hires. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3EAYo8z Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-archit...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke with two of the speakers from the Remote Teams track at QCon Plus, Kaleem Clarkson & Tammy Bjelland, about the dangers of “hybrid” working environments and what is needed to make flexible remote and asynchronous working effective. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3nhPpCK Subscribe to our newsletters: - The Inf...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Diana Larsen, Esther Derby and David Horowitz about the new edition of the book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Team Great. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ignacio Inchausti and Ashay Saxena about the recently released Business Agility report: Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equit...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ignacio Inchausti and Ashay Saxena about the recently released Business Agility report: Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3BaJcw4 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The So...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Mantica about the importance of understanding how the “human work machine” (our brain) functions, the impact of cognitive biases and the importance of likeonomics. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/2UFxY3b Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Ne...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ivar Jacobson, originaror of Use Cases and pioneer of component based development about the craziness of methods and frameworks, and what we can do instead. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/2UiwrzQ Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - T...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tim Cochran, technical director at ThoughtWorks, about developer effectiveness. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Ad6h0J Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Cliff Berg and Raj Nagappan about Agile 2, the next iteration of agile and how it is an evolution of the ideas from the original agile manifesto based on what has changed over the last 20 years. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3iWbK5c Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://ww...

In this double-episode podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Mark Rees, CTO of Xero about creating a great engineering culture in a fast growing Unicorn company. He then spoke to Heather DeSantis of Publicity for Good about what it takes to be a truly purpose-driven organisation. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3eGttMK Subscribe to our newslett...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Johanna Rothman about her seven principles of modern management, reward and incentive systems, multiple career ladders and ways to experiment with decisions for rapid feedback. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3AWqfOt Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Softwar...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Thane of GenUI about building a company on a values-based culture, how software development is fundamentally about communication and collaboration and advice on interviewing for values fit. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3hokAJu Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pato Jutard, CTO of Mural, about the challenges of maintaining a collaborative culture as they have grown from under 100 people to over 450 through the pandemic. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3hrdqml Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ N...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Robin Hills about the importance of emotional intelligence in life and at work, building on your strengths rather than focusing on weaknesses and the value of purpose to enable resilience Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3gCNweU Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq -...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Anders Wallgren of CloudBees about the human side of software development, ways to improve collaboration and why the future is in features. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/2TjZRgn Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: w...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Frank Trainer of Saggezza about technical excellence, writing code for your teammates, not yourself and the importance of SOLID architecture principles Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/2TEcZgp Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tim Olshansky of Zenput about cross functional teams, OKRs, career paths for technologists, and making tradeoffs between technical and customer needs. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3g0zaom Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [...