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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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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
- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 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
- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 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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- September 21, 2021
- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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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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- September 21, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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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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- September 21, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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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
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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
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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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