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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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Aug 6, 2021 • 20min
Thoughtworks’ Tim Cochran on Developer Effectiveness
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tim Cochran, technical director at ThoughtWorks, about developer effectiveness.
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- August 17, 2021
- September 21, 2021
- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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Jul 30, 2021 • 44min
Cliff Berg and Raj Nagappan on Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Cliff Berg and Raj Nagappan about Agile 2, the next iteration of agile and how it is an evolution of the ideas from the original agile manifesto based on what has changed over the last 20 years.
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- August 17, 2021
- September 21, 2021
- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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Jul 23, 2021 • 38min
Building a Great Engineering Culture and Being a Genuinely Purpose Driven Organisation
In this double-episode podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Mark Rees, CTO of Xero about creating a great engineering culture in a fast growing Unicorn company. He then spoke to Heather DeSantis of Publicity for Good about what it takes to be a truly purpose-driven organisation.
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- August 17, 2021
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Jul 16, 2021 • 30min
Johanna Rothman on Modern Management Made Easy
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Johanna Rothman about her seven principles of modern management, reward and incentive systems, multiple career ladders and ways to experiment with decisions for rapid feedback.
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- July 20, 2021
- August 17, 2021
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Jul 9, 2021 • 19min
Jason Thane on Building a Values Based Culture
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Thane of GenUI about building a company on a values-based culture, how software development is fundamentally about communication and collaboration and advice on interviewing for values fit.
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- July 20, 2021
- August 17, 2021
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Jul 2, 2021 • 24min
Pato Jutard of Mural on Maintaining a Collaborative Culture Through Exponential Growth
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pato Jutard, CTO of Mural, about the challenges of maintaining a collaborative culture as they have grown from under 100 people to over 450 through the pandemic.
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- July 20, 2021
- August 17, 2021
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Jun 18, 2021 • 26min
Robin Hills on Emotional Intelligence and Building on your Strengths
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Robin Hills about the importance of emotional intelligence in life and at work, building on your strengths rather than focusing on weaknesses and the value of purpose to enable resilience
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- June 22, 202
- July 20, 2021
- August 17, 2021
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Jun 11, 2021 • 31min
Anders Wallgren of Cloudbees on the Human Side of Software Delivery Management
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Anders Wallgren of CloudBees about the human side of software development, ways to improve collaboration and why the future is in features.
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- June 22, 2021
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- August 17, 2021
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Jun 4, 2021 • 21min
Frank Trainer on SOLID architecture, technical excellence and development as a team sport
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Frank Trainer of Saggezza about technical excellence, writing code for your teammates, not yourself and the importance of SOLID architecture principles
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- June 22, 2021
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- August 17, 2021
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May 28, 2021 • 26min
Tim Olshansky on Career Paths for Technologists who don’t want to Manage People
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tim Olshansky of Zenput about cross functional teams, OKRs, career paths for technologists, and making tradeoffs between technical and customer needs.
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- June 22, 2021
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- August 17, 2021
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