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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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May 21, 2021 • 22min
Ravi Lachhman on the State of Developer Happiness, Engineer Burden and Avoiding Burnout
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ravi Lachhman about the state of developer happiness through the COVID-19 pandemic, engineer burden and avoiding burnout.
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- June 22, 2021
- July 20, 2021
- August 17, 2021
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- May 17-28, 2021
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May 14, 2021 • 20min
Aino Corry on Retrospective Antipatterns
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Aino Corry about common retrospective antipatterns and how to overcome them.
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- June 22, 2021
- July 20, 2021
- August 17, 2021
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- May 17-28, 2021
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May 8, 2021 • 28min
Victor Nuṅez on Systemic Team Coaching to Enable Team Effectiveness
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Victor Nuṅez about how systemic team coaching helps teams perform more effectively and the importance of trusting teams as generative, creative and inteligent systems.
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- June 22, 2021
- July 20, 2021
- August 17, 2021
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- May 17-28, 2021
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Apr 30, 2021 • 31min
Nishant Bhajaria on Privacy by Design
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nishant Bhajaria, Head of Privacy Architecture and Strategy at Uber about the need for privacy by design, the hard decisions that need to be made about privacy and the factors which need to be considered when making trade-offs. His new book provides concrete advice on where to start and how to apply good privacy practices.
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- June 22, 2021
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- August 17, 2021
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- May 17-28, 2021
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Apr 23, 2021 • 27min
Ken Charman on Fixing Pay Equity, Collaborative Cultures and Devolving Decision Authority
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ken Charman of uFlexReward on Fixing Pay Equity, Collaborative Cultures, Devolving Decision Authority to Those Closest to the Work and Disrupting the Enterprise Software Purchasing Process.
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- June 22, 2021
- July 20, 2021
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- May 17-28, 2021
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Apr 16, 2021 • 34min
Bob Davis of Plutora on DevOps and Value Stream Mapping
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bob Davis of Plutora about DevOps, Value Stream Mapping, making bottlenecks visible, and using metrics effectively.
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- June 22, 2021
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- May 17-28, 2021
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Apr 9, 2021 • 37min
Dimitar Karaivanov of Kanbanize on Implementing a Kanban System Effectively
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dimitar Karaivanov of Kanbanize about the six core practices of Kanban and the importance of metrics for improving the flow of work.
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- April 13, 2021
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Apr 2, 2021 • 35min
Esther Weinberg of The Ready Zone on Building Cultures of Trust, Respect & Safety
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Esther Weinberg of The Ready Zone on building cultures of trust, respect & safety to enable resilience and the ability to respond to disruptive change.
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- April 13, 2021
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Mar 26, 2021 • 16min
Rebroadcast: Kim Scott on Radical Candor
* This is a rebroadcasted episode on a popular subject about giving and receiving feedback. *
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kim Scott, author of the book Radical Candor about what radical candor is and how it can be applied in teams and relationships.
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Mar 19, 2021 • 28min
Joe Levy on Engineering Effectiveness through the Pandemic and Beyond
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Joe Levy of Uplevel about the results of their Engineering Effectiveness survey, the levels of stress and burnout in engineering teams and what managers can do to support their teams.
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