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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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Nov 4, 2022 • 19min
Introducing the Four-Day Work Week at Uplevel
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Nicole Stanton of Uplevel about their experience introducing a four-day work week, and how it resulted in higher productivity and higher team engagement.
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- Oct 2-6, 2023
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Oct 28, 2022 • 18min
Making remote and asynchronous work, work
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rob Rawson about cultures that support remote work, finding the balance of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration and support.
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Oct 17, 2022 • 29min
The Collaborative Culture and Developer Experience in the Redis Open Source Community
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Yiftach Shoolman of Redis about the Redis community culture, nurturing a large open source community and enabling great developer experiences.
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Oct 11, 2022 • 30min
VR Environments for Collaborative Software Development
In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Jonathan Schneider and the development team from Moderne about their experiences using an immersive VR environment for collaborative software development.
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Oct 1, 2022 • 21min
Genuine Recognition as a Motivating Driver
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Natalie Baumgartner of Achievers Workforce Institute about the recently released State of Engagement report, how recognition needs to be far more than just lip service and how managers can engage effectively with their people.
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Sep 18, 2022 • 34min
Tackling the Human Side of Digital Transformation
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Missy Lawrence, a consultant with Information Services Group (ISG), about the human skills engineers and engineering leaders need to build in the digital age.
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Sep 9, 2022 • 19min
Shifting from Passenger to Driver Mindset
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Mingxi Wu, VP of Engineering for TigerGraph about their engineering culture, motivating engineers through empowerment and shifting from a passenger to a driver mindset.
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Sep 2, 2022 • 30min
Great Engineers are Always Learning – Lessons from a Unicorn Founder
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Idit Levine, founder of Solo.io, who is on the shortlist of women-founded Unicorn status startups in the world.
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Aug 29, 2022 • 31min
Friction in Data Analytics Workflows Causing Stress and Burnout
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Matthew Scullion about the state of the data analytics workforce, friction in data analytics value streams and the resultant high rates of stress and burnout.
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Aug 19, 2022 • 28min
Becoming Better Communicators To Enable Team Performance
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Arpit Mohan about the importance and value of interpersonal skills in teamwork.
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