The Scaling Tech Podcast

It’s not easy to find enough high-quality technical talent, and Latin America and the Caribbean are an increasingly important region to find skilled technical talent. David and Arin have significant experience with Nearshoring themselves in their business AgilityFeat, and in this episode we speak with another industry expert. Kirk Laughlin is the founder and Chief […]

Do we still need to talk about Agile methodologies, or is it just the way we work now? Have we just bought into the hype and lost sight of the most important thing: delivering value? In this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast, hosts Arin Sime and David Alfaro speak with Bob Payne, SVP for […]

On episode 13 of the Scaling Tech Podcast, hosts Arin and David speak to workplace culture expert and author of "Remote Not Distant", Gustavo Razzetti. They discuss discuss key mindset shifts for remote teams, psychological safety, blameless postmortems, asynch vs synchronous collaboration modes, and more.

Distributed teams are a necessity in modern software development, but it’s not easy! In this episode, Arin and David speak with Johanna Rothman, who is also known as the Pragmatic Manager. She will share best practices on building successful distributed agile teams, as well as the traps to avoid!

Hiring and Retention for tech roles is hard! In this episode, David and Arin speak with Tricia Rhodes, who is the Chief People Officer at SingleStone. We talk about how they moved from in-person work to work-from-home due to the pandemic, and how that has changed their hiring practices for software engineers in their IT […]

David and Arin reflect on the lessons learned from the first nine episodes of the Scaling Tech Podcast. These include some of the best advice from our guests on topics like agile leadership, Scrum and Kanban, automated testing, hiring, and moving from project management to product management.

On episode 9 of the Scaling Tech Podcast, Lyssa Adkins joins us to discuss Agile Coaching and Agile Transformations. Lyssa Adkins is a truly inspirational voice in the Agile community who co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute in 2010 and has been a leader in working committees for ICAgile and the Scrum Alliance. She is author […]

Mariana Lopez joins us to discuss hiring and interviewing for UX roles. She covers the different types of UX roles, and the sorts of questions you can ask to determine if they are a good fit for agile software development teams. Mariana is COO of WebRTC.ventures and a longstanding leader in our teams at AgilityFeat, […]

Noted Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile consultant Bill Wake joins us to discuss agile development techniques. Bill discusses topics around the technical and process aspects of Agile, including Mob or Ensemble Programming, User Stories, Refactoring, the state of Test Driven Development, and the challenges he sees teams face as they adopt extreme programming methods. In […]

Matt Makai joins us to discuss Developer Relations and Developer Evangelists, their roles in tech companies, and how to hire for them. Matt has been at Twilio since 2014, where he currently is the Senior Director of Builder Content, and he leads teams that bring all of their excellent developer content to their users. Matt […]

Professor Ryan Nelson of the UVA McIntire School of Commerce joins us to discuss IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices. Why are only 35% of projects successful? We discuss what he's learned about project management over 30 years of research and case studies.

Dave Haeffner joins us to talk about his path from QA Analyst to Software Developer, and the challenges of reverse engineering legacy software applications to improve quality.

Sanjiv Augustine is the Founder and CEO of LitheSpeed, a world-leading agile training and consulting company; and an executive consultant and trusted advisor on business agility.

Daniel Vacanti is an expert Kanban thought leader, trainer, consultant, and co-host of the "Drunk Agile" podcast. Dan joined David and Arin to discuss Predicability in Kanban. They covered a wide range of topics from why cycle time is really just a measurement of time to feedback, flow metrics in Kanban, and how the most effective teams often combine aspects of Scrum and Kanban.

The inaugural episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast is an introduction to the co-hosts, Arin Sime and David Alfaro. They share the goals they have for this podcast, how they met and built a software development and staffing firm in 2011, and their personal stories. There is no guest on this episode, but it's a great way to get to know the hosts before diving into the rest of our episodes on how to s...