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Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to build better, high performing teams by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 500,000 downloads in the last 3 years.
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Jan 29, 2023 • 27min
Delivering Great Software and Building Great Teams at CircleCI
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rob Zuber, CTO of Circle CI, about what it takes to build and deliver great software and build great teams
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Jan 18, 2023 • 19min
Empowering Women in STEM & Building Inclusive Teams through Cooking
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Kimberley Fox about her work empowering women in STEM, helping create cultures where women feel welcome and included
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Jan 13, 2023 • 34min
Great Products Need a Culture of Quality and Passionate People
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Melissa Daley, Bob Crews and Adam Sandman, speakers at the InflectraCON 2022 State of Testing conference, about the state of testing and how to instil a culture of quality into software teams.
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Jan 6, 2023 • 29min
People Matter Most in Organisational Change
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Simon Powers about why organisational change is hard, putting people first, the need for emergence rather than recipes and his new book Change: A practitioners guide to Enterprise Agile Coaching
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Dec 30, 2022 • 24min
Kanplexity as an Approach to Tackle Complex Problems
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to John Coleman about using Kanplexity when the problems you face are complex and evolving and other frameworks don’t fit.
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Dec 18, 2022 • 18min
Stop Having Meetings that Suck - Patricia Kong on Why Facilitation Should be a Core Competency
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Patricia Kong of Scrum.org about the importance and value of facilitation skills for collaborative teams.
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Dec 11, 2022 • 23min
Developer Experience is a Critical Issue for Organisations Today
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Abi Noda about the costs of poor developer experience, why it is a crucial issue for organisations to address, a framework for assessing developer experience and ways it can be improved.
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Nov 28, 2022 • 31min
Time to Awesome as a Measure of Positive Developer Experiences
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rick Spencer of InfluxDB about building developer tools, removing friction and improving mean time to awesomeness, the need for online social intelligence and ways to avoid burnout
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Nov 18, 2022 • 29min
Great Management is a Skillset with Huge Impact on Team and Organisation Performance
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Stefanie Tignor, lead data scientist at Humu about what it take to be a great manager, how great managers show up with their teams and the powerful difference managers make in the organisation.
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Nov 13, 2022 • 28min
What it Takes to be Genuinely Data Driven in Software Engineering
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke Andrew Lau about the state of engineering management report, what it takes for organisations to be genuinely data driven and the measurable benefits that are possible with good data.
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