Plays Well With Others

In this episode, Andrew and Jess continue the conversation on interviews to the next logical step: onboarding with a company, from both the perspective of the manager and the new employee.  They also provide some actionable advice on when to consider moving on to the next role and how to manage that with your manager.

In the second of two episodes on "how to interview," Andrew and Jess walk through an effective interview from the seat of the interviewee or the person being interviewed.  Tune in whether you're the interviewer or the interviewee since there's plenty of info from both sides of the table

In the first of two episodes on "how to interview," Andrew and Jess walk through an effective interview from the seat of the hiring manager or person doing the interview.  Tune in whether you're the interviewer or the interviewee since there's plenty of info from both sides of the table.

In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss the tactical and practical approach to building role leveling and job families.

In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss their thoughts behind when and who to hire and how to manage roles and titles.

In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about toxic positivity in social media and business.  How does a lack of authenticity impact your well being and the well being of others?

In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about the importance of saying "no" to new projects with a simple caveat, always follow the "no" with a "but...".  "But here's what I can do for you."  "But I would love to find a better solution for you after understanding your needs a bit better."

In this milestone episode, Andrew and Jess discuss some core pieces of knowledge they wish they'd had going into their careers, and podcasting!

In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about how business succeed and fail (in technology adoption and other innovations) by failing to pay attention to prevailing trends in industry or paying too close attention to competition with others. https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Game-Simon-Sinek/dp/073521350X https://www.idgconnect.com/article/3581889/how-tractor-seller-john-deere-became-a-technology-comp...

In this episode, Andrew and Jess continue (in a way) the conversation around AI and talk about creating authentic content while still leveraging AI as a force multiplier. Megan Smith, The Hidden History of Women in Tech: https://youtu.be/7YPlrs9-IVM Zach Leon: https://bio.site/zachleon

In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss the role of technical and product leaders in the world of AI and digital transformation.  Just because you can build something doesn't always mean you should.  But on the flipside, just because something is big and scary doesn't mean you should avoid it like the plague. Cy Wakeman: https://youtu.be/aaKG6GWGLtc <https://www.realitybasedleadershi...

With this episode, Andrew and Jess launch a new format: engaging and responding to comments and reviews.  This episode is primarily focused on the return to office policies and approaches.  Tune in to hear about specific approaches to create value if you need to come together in person. Also, this episode is the first instance of a new shoutout segment where Andrew and Jess share content and creat...

In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about the perspectives involved in determining success and how aligning your own goals and aspirations with your career allows you to be "personally successful."

In a reprisal of episode 13, in this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about the impacts of prolific remote work on hiring managers and the future of remote work on companies.

Remote work (post-COVID) has grown dramatically and is currently in a limbo state across the workforce.  In this two part episode, Andrew and Jess talk through the value and impact of remote work as an individual contributor (or worker in general).

The Eisenhower Matrix and Engineering Manager Event Loop are both tools to help you stay on top of the important tasks that only you can do.  Get the rest of the story along with examples in this episode of PWWO Engineering Manager Event Loop: https://hugodias.substack.com/p/event-loops-for-managers Eisenhower Matrix: https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/

In this episode Andrew and Jess focus on how to lead and act with intentionality in order to keep your results high and your time protected. Check out other episodes here: https://www.playswellwithothers.show And here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK17nvh7j1Cz2gFWS-_2EOw

The other side of "Anecdotal Success" is that your organization (or business) doesn't necessarily have a clear path to execute against the bigger vision.  That leaves you in a state of everything being important (since you can't tie each task to the vision).  And when everything's important, nothing is.

In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss how sometimes leadership means rolling up your sleeves and meeting your team where they're at.  If you want to enact a visionary strategy, you have to use any means necessary to ensure that the vision is clear and understood.

In this episode, Andrew and Jess dig deeper into the weeds on the subject of work management and how to build a technology division that works well with each other and delivers effectively.  They'll deliver truly tactical and practical methods for building buy-in and understanding the value of tracking work.

In this episode, Andrew and Jess present some experience and hands on skills needed to take your team from "Get Schtick Done" to streamlined, lean, mean, doing whatever it is you do-ing teams!

In this episode, Andrew dons his developer hat and is the special guest discussing the value of bringing devs along with you in your requirements gathering journey.  Andrew and Jess get "tactical and practical" by sharing some specific examples of when it's been valuable to building organizational maturity by having a technical and a product person in the room with the business user...

In this episode Andrew and Jess discuss some of the topics Jeremy Travis Sims brought up in episode 4 primarily focusing on change management and how to optimize quality and experience around change.

In this episode, we're joined by Jeremy Travis Sims, a solutions engineering lead with evolv consulting, to talk about superstitions in technology.  What began as a fun chat about knocking on wood when alluding to a clean release turned into a solid discussion on change management and resilient application architecture.  Join us by commenting and sharing your favorite superstitions!

In this episode, Andrew and Jess reflect on the interview with Kelly Silva (episode 2) and discuss how project managers have an impact on company culture.  There is also a bit of a rabbit hole on how the lexicon has changed since remote work has become more prevalent.