alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

Experienced management professional Johanna Rothman discusses self-management for CTOs: micromanagement chaos, flow metrics over Gantt charts, C-Suite essentials, and changes in management since the 70s. Dive into practical management advice and strategies for effective leadership.

Autonomy, Motivation and Purpose Empower your team with the right type of autonomy 🚀 as we define the balance in this CTO podcast with Andy Walker, who has years of experience leadings teams at Skyscanner and Google. After 30 years in tech, Andy finally has the time to share what his hard won insights about tech leadership. You will enjoy his nuanced approach to autonomous teams, team size and work-life balance. Listen to find out: Why the more senior you are, the less decisions you should make 🤔 How to give the right amount of autonomy by career stage 🧑‍💻 (and how to have the right conversations about it 💬) How to empower 🚀and support an autonomous team What is the ideal team size?🍕 (What happens beyond Dunbar’s Law?) What motivates your team? 🤗 (SPOILER: Autonomy, Mastery🌟, and Purpose ala Dan Pink) why Daily Active Users is the Wrong Metric 🫣 Listen here BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius and codecentric About Andy Walker: Andy has over 30 years experience as a software engineer, leader and coach. A ten year veteran of Google where he worked on Maps, Search and Ads and previously at Netscape and Sony. Recently he’s been focused on how to create an environment for teams to do their best work and coaching leaders to enable this. He’s currently writing about the lessons he has learned about working with people and doing ad hoc coaching and the occasional conference talk. TIMESTAMPS (approx) (00:00) Introduction to the Alphalist Podcast (02:06) Introducing Guest: Andy Walker (02:38) Andy's Current Daily Life (03:27) What is Autonomy (04:37) The Balance of Autonomy (04:47) Autonomy in Parenting (06:28) The Importance of Autonomy in Companies (07:24) Communicate to Discover the Right Amount of Autonomy (08:15) Overview of Autonomy Across the Company (10:05) How to Align in Autonomous Teams (10:31) Progression of Autonomy from Junior to Senior (12:01) How to do Autonomy (12:51) Role of Leadership Skills in Autonomy (13:20) The Importance of Communication in Autonomy (14:01) Good Leaders Know How To Apply Leadership Best Practices (15:56) 3-Question Smell Test for Leaders (18:08) Why the best leaders make the least decisions (20:00) Who makes decisions in Multi-Disciplinary Teams (22:28) Bad Managers and Micromanagement (27:20) Effective Teams (30:26) What motivates people (inspired by Dan Pink) (31:03) How Autonomy Motivates (31:19) How Purpose Motivates (33:35) How Mastery Motivates (35:52) Ideal Size for Autonomous Teams (38:38) Ideal Team Size Varies (40:20) Work-Life Balance (41:16) Rapid Fire Questions (42:18) Biggest Mistake Leaders Make With Autonomy (42:32) Why Daily Active Users Could Be a Bad Metric (44:10) Best Prompt to Improve Work-Life Balance (48:00) Advice for New Leaders (48:18) Advice to Younger Self Quotes:### And when we're talking about autonomy within companies, you should understand that you're trying to give every person the most autonomy they can handle at a given point in time ….. And so what you're looking at saying is how much autonomy can you handle right now? And how do we put you in a situation where the bits where you don't have autonomy over what you're learning from so that your ability to tackle larger and more difficult things grows over time? And what tends to happen with autonomy as we don't have that conversation? So when somebody feels that they don't have appropriate decision-making power, they turn around and say, ‘You're not giving me autonomy ‘like it's necessarily a bad thing rather than the better conversation of ‘what level autonomy should you have at this point and how can we help you grow that level of autonomy’” - Andy Walker,alphalist CTO podcast #91 One of my rules of thumb as to whether I'm functioning as a leader was,” How many decisions do I have to make?” And my goal is to never have to make a single decision. This is a futile goal, because that's never going to happen. But it makes me think about how do I push the decision to the lowest part of the hierarchy as possible, so that the people closest to the work are able to have agency over what they're doing. And this should be business as usual. And in fact, if you're working on something, and you're responsible for getting it done, you should have decision-making power over 99 percent of the things in front of you. The interesting case is the edge case for that 1 percent where what you're working on may be mutually exclusive to another team. ” - Andy Walker,alphalist CTO podcast #91 About our sponsors WorkGenius Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs. codecentric The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc

Product Discovery for Engineers (and CTOs) Invest your engineering resources better by truly understanding the core problem your product needs to solve with this CTO podcast featuring Bob Moesta, co-architect of the Jobs to be Done Theory, who has developed and launched over 3500 products. As an engineer-turned-product-guru, Bob’s explanation of Product Discovery will delight your nerd brain 🧠 (complete with references to set theory, push-pull forces, and the problem space) while being super practical 🔧about the challenges CTOs are dealing with (like scope creep and trade offs). Listen to find out: Why “Build and They Will Come” is a Myth 🫣 SAM (Serviceable Addressable Market) vs. TAM Why engineers should be involved in product discovery 🧐 Customer Interviews: Who to Ask and What to Ask Hypothesis Building Research vs Hypothesis Proving Research Why tradeoffs should be influenced by the opinions of those who already bought 🫠 (and not engineers who ran out of time) Listen here BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Pentalog, WorkGenius and Sipgate About Bob Moesta: BOB MOESTA is a teacher, builder, entrepreneur, and co-founder at The Re-Wired Group, a design firm in Detroit, Michigan. Bob has developed & launched over 3,500 products and sold everything from design services, software, and houses to consumer electronics, and investment services. He’s an adjunct lecturer at Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the author of Choosing College, Demand Side Sales 101, and Learning to Build. QUOTES: "Well, if you think about it, 70% of our life cycle costs are fixed in the first 10% of how we develop and set up a new platform. And yet we spend all the money usually on the backend. And we don't spend that time upfront thinking. And so the more we can spend that time upfront thinking about the right things in the boundaries and understanding kind of the limitations, we then will actually have a better understanding of what to build and what to know." ##Timestamps## (Approx) (00:00) Introduction (05:18) Who is Bob Moesta (07:09) Bob Moesta's Journey in Learning How to Build (08:23) Understanding the Customer's Perspective (08:55) 'Build it and They Will Come' Myth (09:20) Specific Problems People Have (09:54) Limits of Personas in Product Design (10:31) Understanding the Buying Process (11:10) Struggling Moment Insights (11:36) Interrogation Methods in Customer Understanding (13:12) Impulse Buying Discussion (13:31) Context and Outcome in Purchases (15:59) Trade-offs Customers Make (16:11) Espresso Machine Case Study (17:27) Forces in Purchase Decisions (21:19) Total Addressable Market's Role (21:48) Serviceable Addressable Market Importance (24:34) Hypothesis-Building Research (25:34) 4 Forces Helping Change (26:26) Speaking to Past Buyers (27:03) AIDA's Place in Sales (28:03) Jobs to be Done Building Blocks (29:14) Applying Jobs to be Done (29:46) Mormon Church Case Study (30:05) CrossFit as Religion's 'Competitor' (31:09) Getting Started with JTBD (31:16) Top Innovators' Skills (31:51) How People Buy (32:15) Questions for Recent Customers (32:44) Cross Functional Interviews (33:26) Understanding Requirements (33:45) Quantitative vs Qualitative Data (33:57) Choosing the Right Variables (34:44) Prototyping with Qualitative Data (35:12) Iterative Framework Application (36:26) Cross-Functional Collaboration (36:34) Interview Conductors (37:07) Aligning Language and Understanding (37:37) Engineer’s Blindspot (41:20) Innovation Process (42:30) Personas vs. Jobs (43:15) Bitchin' or Switching? Struggle and Workarounds (44:00) Progress Customers Try to Make (44:32) Identifying What Doesn't Matter (45:55) Observation Muscle (46:38) Time Machine (49:32) Advice to Younger Self About our sponsors Pentalog Your project deserves an exceptional team, and your teams deserve the best support! Pentalog is a software company part of Globant, global leader in digital transformation and AI. As a key partner in digital innovation for major international brands such as Google, Disney, Fifa, Adidas, Tripadvisor, Santander or Nissan, the company brings over 20 years of technology expertise into industry transformation and customer experience reinvention through 40 specialized studios, 52 production centers, and 29,000 carefully evaluated experts. Pentalog also invests heavily in continuous education for tech leaders by building tools such as the CTO assessment, decision-making matrices and maturity models, and various resources exploring a tech leader’s role and challenges. To learn more, visit the Resources for Tech Leaders page on the Pentalog website. Sipgate Sipgate is a cloud-based all-in-one telephony solution that will satisfy your company's pretty much every use case. From sales to customer support - having a good connection with your customers has never been easier. The NEW Sipgate App comes with AI-powered features, noise-canceling, and a seamless integration with other business tools like all major CRMs - Your sales team will love it. Their intuitive user interface makes business calling even more efficient and is available on any device or operating system. Great for hybrid teams. Plus, as a German company - they know all your GDPR needs. Sounds good? Well, keep listening as it gets better: As an alphalist CTO podcast listener, you get € 500 worth of free credits when you sign up at https://link.alphalist.com/sipgate and use the code: sipgatealpha in the form there. WorkGenius Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

Melissa Perri, author of 'Escaping the Build Trap' and 'Product Operations', discusses the importance of balancing qualitative and quantitative data in product management. They explore the consequences of overhiring and overscaling in companies, and the need for a solid product strategy. They also introduce the concept of ProductOps and highlight the significance of data and insights in shaping product strategy. Listen to this episode to gain valuable insights into crafting an ideal product strategy.

Time Management + Continuous Learning Tips for CTO Stay on top of your professional development with these learning and productivity tips from Luca Rossi, whose refactoring.club newsletter 🌀 is read by 50k subscribers every week. After scaling Wanderio to 25M users 🚀 as founding CTO, Luca sat down to distill his experiences and in the process created the tech leadership content 📰 he so badly needed. With diagrams. 🖼️ In this alphalist CTO podcast, Luca shares what he has learned about leadership - including the self-leadership needed to structure one's time and effectively harvest the plethora of ideas published online into action. Listen to find out: What is the flaw in the 'State of Flow"?🌊 Why CTOs should write more ✍️ How he structures his day 🌞 Should CTOs be generalists?🤔 How he organises his tech leadership 'news clippings' 🗂️ Tobi getting real 🫣 about recurring 1:1s BROUGHT TO YOU BY: codecentric, instaffo and WorkGenius Timestamps (approx..) (00:00:00) What is the alphalist CTO podcasts? (00:02:23) Who is Luca? (00:03:40) - (00:06:23) Luca's Journey to Full-Time Writing (00:06:24) The Growth of the Refactoring Newsletter (00:07:05) Staying in-the-know when no longer an active CTO (00:09:27) How Luca got into Computing (00:11:11) Wanderio as a Italian Startup (hyperlocal) (00:13:39) New CTO Job? Don't refactor everything (00:18:09) The Rise of the Generalist CTO (00:21:09) How Luca Stays Up to Date on Tech Trends (00:22:19) Why Luca Prefers Newsletters (00:23:26) How to organise ideas from content (00:24:50) Structuring His Day (00:26:41) Finding Your Unique Angle and Voice (00:29:01) Productivity Techniques for Solo Work (00:31:21) Overriding Time Boxes (00:31:41) Flaw in the 'State of Flow' (00:30:27) Time Management Tools (00:31:48) Can CTOs Timebox? (00:33:42) Recurring Meetings (00:35:27) Too Many 1-on-1s? (00:36:39) Curriculum of a CTO School (00:39:57) 3 Tips for CTOs (00:40:44) Which Engineering Metrics (00:45:31) A CTO is a Maker (00:46:35) Share your Thoughts Online (00:47:56) Advice To Younger Self About our sponsors codecentric The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc instaffo Instaffo is a recruiting platform that allows you to hire tech talent in less than 25 days. It is loved by over 600 companies - including HelloFresh, Amazon, and MyPoster. By leveraging sophisticated matchmaking and allowing you to chat directly with pre-qualified tech talent right on the platform they’ve made the hiring process 3X more effective. From ‘Matched’ to ‘Chat’ in one go. While classic job portals, in-house active sourcing and headhunters give you the headache of paying upfront, having high setup efforts and dealing with 30% hiring fees, with Instaffo this now history for you. As an alphalist listener, you get to enjoy the Instaffo recruiting platform absolutely free until you find that perfect hire. Already over 2.000 tech talents and companies are connected weekly on instaffo, so what are you waiting for? Go to https://instaffo.com/cto to get started. WorkGenius Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

Reimagine version control systems with Scott Chacon, Co-founder of GitHub and GitButler. Is the Git Protocol still useful? Can we streamline our code and commit less? Discover Scott's journey into computing, the early days of GitHub, and his passion for teaching. Learn about enhancing the Git Protocol and improving the code review process. Explore challenges in finding tech talent and the value of GitHub as a software development tool.

Leading Through A LayOff: How to downsize nicely Is there a nice way to downsize? Mike Fisher, former CTO of Etsy, shares what he learned when the company downscaled by 27% in 2 rounds of layoffs right before he joined. Find out how you can help your team navigate this sensitive period - both pre- and post-layoff. How much time⏳ you lose in a layoff (the productivity cost of layoff) Why you can’t expect to cut costs ✂️ AND grow Why Availability 🟢 needs to be prioritised as you downsize Layoffing off Generalists vs. Specialists 🧑‍🔬 How they migrated to the cloud ☁️ Listen here BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Storyblok and WorkGenius TIMESTAMPS: (0:00:00) - Intro (0:02:43) - West Point to General Electric to Etsy (0:08:11) - Downsizing's Impact on Employee Morale (0:09:11) - Knowledge Transfer (0:10:13) - Post Layoff Attrition (0:11:40) - How Being a Monolith Helped (0:13:30) - Cloud Migration (0:15:28) - Lift and Shift vs. Kubernetes (0:18:33) - How a new project helped heal (0:19:30) - The Time Costs of LayOffs (0:22:05) - You can't expect to cut costs and grow (0:24:35) - Impact of where the team was cut (0:26:30) - Advice for CTOs about to lay off (0:27:02) - Transparency During Downsizing (0:28:00) - NB: Watch out for Availability (0:31:12) - Layoffs and Stock Prices (0:33:00) - Short Term and Long Term Planning (0:33:40) - 3X Framework and Product Lifecycle Phases (0:35:00) - Laying Off R & D: Specialists vs. Generalists (0:36:24) - The Dedicated FinOps Team (40:02:58) - Keeping up your Knowledge Network Storyblok Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment? Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found. Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms WorkGenius Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

The AI-Driven Future of Software Development, Scaling, and the Open Source git checkout the future of software development with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub. This broad podcast discusses everything from refactoring and scaling to the CTO/CEO role, from open source to AI as a Dev Tool. Every day Thomas delves into the development of software development - so his 🧠 was a great brain to pick. Listen to find out: Why refactoring 🧩 will always be a part of growth (but AI will help) What was it like being integrated ☂️ into Microsoft post-M&A What are GitHub’s current challenges 👷 Listen here BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius and Storyblok TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 03:18 from East Germany to Silivon Valley 04:36 Ruby 06:29 From Software Developer to Founder 07:35 What happens after Microsoft aquires a company 10:45 Microsoft’s DevTools Ecosystem 12:18 Power of the Open Source 15:36 What has changed in the last 20 years 18:09 GitHub’s vision 18:51 Refactoring Legacy Code with Generative AI 25:42 DevOps and Deploying GenAI code 29:31 The Futility of Focussing on a Scalability in Earlydays Startup 32:59 What Challenges Are Being Worked art GitHub right now? 34:2o SrategyL Ideas and challefs 34:43 The Role of GitHub CEO 38:42 The generalist role of a CTO 41:57 Being a Tech Leader of DevTool 45:26 Mentorship and Inspiration (Steve Jobs) 48:09 ChatGPT 51:51 Advice to Younger Self as German Techie OUR SPONSORS WorkGenius Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs. Storyblok Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment? Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found. Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms

DX: The Developer Metrics that Unlock Developer Productivity Find out the best way to measure Developer Experience 🧑‍💻in a way that truly enables ⚡ your developers (i.e. Developer Productivity) in this CTO podcast with Abi Noda - co-creator of the DevEx Framework and founder of Pull Panda. For years Abi has been on a quest to discover what developer metrics are the key to happier and more productive developers. He tried PR Analytics (he created Pull Panda🐼 - acquired by GitHub) and DORA, before teaming up with other Developer Productivity researchers 🧑‍🔬 to create a new framework which focuses on improving developer experience (DevEx) to improve productivity. Listen to find out: Why do companies measure Developer Productivity? 🤷(from both CTO and developer perspective) How to survey your developers? (Sampling, Frequency and Length)📝 How DORA is done wrong in most companies Why he prefers bootstrapping -🥾 but got a unique type of funding for his 4th company. Listen here TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 05:09 His Bootstrapping Inspiration 06:29 When investment is good 09:07 Why measure developer productivity? 13:28 Pull Analytics Approach 16:47 How it backfired at GitHub 17:13 Companies Misuse of Data 19:01 Why DORA didn’t work 20:40 'Shiny New Object Syndrome' 22:10 The right and wrong way to do DORA 24:39 How Developer Metrics have Evolved 33:28 Small Teams and Measuring DX 34:32 Measuring DX in larger companies 36:09 Creating a survey (frequency, length, and sampling) 41:21 Honesty in survey responses 43:48 Tips for getting started BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Storyblok and WorkGenius Storyblok Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment? Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found. Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms WorkGenius WorkGenius provides a unique freelance hiring and management solution that covers the entire process from start to finish. We use advanced technology to make it easier and faster for businesses to find skilled freelancers who have been thoroughly vetted. With WorkGenius, you get a comprehensive solution for managing freelancers throughout their engagement. We simplify the hiring process, project management, payroll, and reporting, allowing organizations to make the most of their freelance talent pool and effortlessly manage their existing freelancers. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to www.workgenius.com/alphalist connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

The Wix Guild model, Mentorship and Platform-as-a- Runtime Get inspired about architecture - that of computers and teams - in this CTO podcast with Aviran Mordo, VP Engineering at Wix. I really enjoyed talking with Aviran about both the technical nitty gritty of powering millions of websites as well as the Wix model which - unlike the Spotify model - is still in use at its flagship company over a decade later Listen to find out: How the Wix model works 🪗(+ hiring, personal development and communication across guilds and companies) What is Platform-as-a-Runtime 🚄 Why most microservices 🪢 are done wrong (and are costing you money) How to encourage mentorship 🫶 The infra that powers 7% of the web Listen here - Timestamps 2:10 Aviran’s Personal Journey 9:43 Wix secret sauce 12:26 Cost effective serverless environments for millions of customers. 14:58 The Wix Tech Stack 16:00 The mission to iimprove developer experience 17:00 How people do microservices wrong 21:50 Platform as a Runtime 32:00 The Wi Guild model 35:37 Aligning decisions across internal ‘companies’ 38:40 The Operational Guild Model 54:49 Improving the Guilds through Feedback + KPI of Guilds 1:00:24 Mentorship in the Org 1:06:15 Working on his networking skills BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Storyblok, Zoho and codecentric Storyblok Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment? Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found. Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms Zoho You have probably heard of Zoho. They have been around for 27 years and now offer an all-in-one platform with over 50 mission-critical apps that offer everything from sales to marketing and HR to accounting. All in one platform- connecting the entire enterprise, ensuring communication between departments. But its the user privacy that Zoho offers that makes it stand out. Not only do they not make money by using your data for advertising, but they also have EU datacenters which is a huge win for GDPR compliance See for yourself. Come to their user conference, named Zoholics on 26th and 27th of September 2023 in Cologne, where you can sit down with experts and get to know the people behind the software. Plus, you get 25% off with the promo code OMR_CTO. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/zoho codecentric The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc