Developing Leadership

Creating Alignment in Superstar Engineering Teams with Phil Calçado

Jan 24, 2023

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Is Your Customer Acquisition Strategy a Good Idea?

03:28

I've Managed Teams for Companies That Make $200 Million in Revenue and Have No Users

01:37

Scaling Up - The Secret Sauce

02:12

Introduction

3min

I've Managed Teams for Companies That Make $200 Million in Revenue and Have No Users

2min

Is OKRs a Good Tool for Aligning Organizational Structure?

2min

What Happens When You Don't Have a Ledger Service?

3min

Microservices and the Bad Patterns That Emerge

3min

Are You Making It Worse Than Writing Haskell?

5min

Scaling Up - The Secret Sauce

2min

Is Your Customer Acquisition Strategy a Good Idea?

3min

I've Been in the Industry for 15 Years and I Don't Know What to Do With It

3min

10.

Are We Getting in Trouble Again?

4min

11.

Creating a New Database Is Critically Important

2min

12.

Change Management - What Happens if You Don't Do Anything?

4min

13.

Is There a Thread All the Way Through This?

2min

14.

The RFC

3min

15.

Letting Go Part II

2min

16.

Technical Leaders Need to Be Exact About the Role That They're Playing

2min

17.

The Power of Speaking Up Outside of What You Say

4min

Phil Calçado is the Global CTO at PicPay, one the largest engineering orgs in Latin America. He joins the podcast to re-tell his war stories as an engineering leader at SoundCloud, Digital Ocean, SeatGeek, MeetUp, and more celebrity-tier tech companies.

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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

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