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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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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 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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