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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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Oct 15, 2021 • 29min
Growing Teams and Retaining Culture in Remote Health Care
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Damon Lanphear about recruiting and growing remote teams, hanging the interviewing process, governance as an accelerator of innovation and applying AI to primary healthcare.
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- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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Oct 8, 2021 • 24min
The Amazon Way with John Rossman
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to former Amazon executive John Rossman about the latest edition of his book, The Amazon Way.
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- October 19, 2021
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Oct 1, 2021 • 27min
Moving from Individual Contributor to People Leader
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sam McAfee about helping technologists move from being individual contributors to leaders of teams.
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Sep 25, 2021 • 33min
Helping Your Boss Help You with Ken Kousen
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ken Kousen, Java Champion, NFJS speaker, and author of Kotlin Cookbook, Modern Java Recipes, Making Java Groovy, and Gradle Recipes for Android about his new book Help Your Boss Help You.
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Sep 17, 2021 • 34min
New Approaches to Engineer Onboarding with Kristen Buchanan
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Kristen Buchanan about new approaches to engineer onboarding and reducing time to productivity for new hires.
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- September 21, 2021
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Sep 11, 2021 • 32min
Effective Remote and Asynchronous Work with Kaleem Clarkson & Tammy Bjelland
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke with two of the speakers from the Remote Teams track at QCon Plus, Kaleem Clarkson & Tammy Bjelland, about the dangers of “hybrid” working environments and what is needed to make flexible remote and asynchronous working effective.
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- September 21, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021 • 36min
Agile Retrospectives Making Good Teams Even Better
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Diana Larsen, Esther Derby and David Horowitz about the new edition of the book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Team Great.
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ignacio Inchausti and Ashay Saxena about the recently released Business Agility report: Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
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- September 21, 2021
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Aug 26, 2021 • 24min
Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ignacio Inchausti and Ashay Saxena about the recently released Business Agility report: Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
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Aug 23, 2021 • 32min
The Human Work Machine and Likeonomics with David Mantica
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Mantica about the importance of understanding how the “human work machine” (our brain) functions, the impact of cognitive biases and the importance of likeonomics.
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Aug 15, 2021 • 24min
The Craziness of Methods and Frameworks, and What to do Instead with Ivar Jacobson
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ivar Jacobson, originaror of Use Cases and pioneer of component based development about the craziness of methods and frameworks, and what we can do instead.
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