The Confident Commit

How do you restructure your team, language, and practices so that your team can grow from failure?Lisa Gelobter, CEO of tEQuitable sits down with Rob to share her mission: helping companies create culture that works, for everyone. In this episode, Lisa explains how learning to shift perspective on failure allows you to create a company culture based on collaboration, not competition.Have a topic you want us to discuss? Reach out to us on Twitter at @CircleCI!

In this episode, Rob is joined by Thomas Hazel, founder and CTO of ChaosSearch. Every software company has tons of data to manage. Have we set ourselves up for failure? How do we recover from a data mess? Learn how Thomas embraces chaos to tackle big data problems by taking risks and embracing failure.Have a topic you want us to discuss? Reach out to us on Twitter at @CircleCI!

Chainguard co-founder, Kim Lewandowski joins Rob to discuss the ways she presses forward in the fear-driven world of software supply chain security. In any kind of mistake or failure, security breaches have to be something that we can learn from. On the other hand, particularly during investigation, there are often walls of trust and other factors affecting fully transparent communication. Does this impact our ability to learn? Is there something we have to do differently to get better at it?Tune in to this episode to hear Kim share valuable insights on how to educate through moments of panic and how to help others focus on the next step.Have a topic you want us to discuss? Reach out to us on Twitter at @circleci!

This season we've been talking about dealing with failure, so we decided to bring in an expert to explain how she communicates about failure. Rob sits down with CircleCI's VP of corporate communications, Emma Webb to dive deep on:Learning from a failed startup journeyHow to communicate failure inside and outside your organizationWhat they've learned from communication failures during failuresEmma's best advice on communicating when experiencing failureHave a topic you'd like us to discuss? Someone you want us to interview? Reach out to us on Twitter @CircleCI!

How should leaders be showing up during failure? Rob sits down with TaxBit CTO, Tramale Turner to dive deep on embracing failure.In this episode, learn how to integrate failure as part of your company culture, when to ask pertinent questions, and how to not make the same mistake twice.Have a topic you want us to discuss? Someone you want us to interview? Reach out to us on Twitter @CircleCI!

Rob sits down with Justin Reock to discuss developer productivity engineering (DPE). Get answers to valuable questions like, Why should you focus on DPE?How can you find the bottlenecks in flow? Where is the productivity gap most commonly found? How can you increase throughput and decrease cost on your team? Tune in today and if there's something you want to hear discussed on a future episode, reach out to us on Twitter at @circleci!

Nearly every project can benefit from improvements, but which effort has the most impact? Rob sits down with Rollbar CPO Cyrus Radfar to discuss how to reframe your mindset on failure, knowing and operating from your top-level goal, and making failures a vital part of company culture.

Rob sits down with Drew McManus, CEO of 33 Teams to discuss Agile development. Hear stories from Drew's time at Pivotal Labs and the valuable lessons he's taking with him. This episode covers how to suggest change, finding the best Agile practices for you, and how working with the right people may be worth a career shift. Tune in today!Have a topic you want us to discuss? Someone you want us to interview? Reach out to us on Twitter @circleci!

Incident response can tricky. How do you create a culture prepared to handle it in a healthy and efficient way? What should and shouldn't leaders be involved in? How do you create a psychologically safe environment? Find out in this episode as Rob as he interviews Jeli founder Nora Jones on the do's and don'ts of incident response. 

Rob is joined by Amazon EKS GM, Chandler Hoisington to discuss the speedy rise of Kubernetes. Chandler explains the power of getting the right tooling for your team and how sometimes the costs of moving fast may be worth the risk. Tune in today!Have a topic you want us to discuss? Someone you want us to interview? Reach out to us on Twitter @circleci!