Business of Software Podcast

Author, lecturer, and computer scientist with an MBA, Clarke Ching has been powered by Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints for 25 years, and using it to speed up Agile since 2003. Whereas others go deep into the details, acquiring more and more knowledge, Clarke went deep into ToC and Agile, and then decided to go wide - cherry-picking both bodies of knowledge, simplifying them, then sharing the most useful bits far and wide. Clarke's BoS USA talk “Rock paper scissors” looks at the everyday stories that can help you make changes in your business, what you can learn from them, and how you can iomplent real change. Recorded live at BoS Conference Europe 2016  For more great talks from great speakers, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

It's not easy finding the right candidate for a role in your team, and it's even harder to make them feel integrated into the company that they want to stay long term. In this BoSTalk, Elpie Bannister (former former Director of Talent at Simprints) and Alex Yang (VP Engineering at Simprints) look at how to manage a new recruit from the moment their application lands in your inbox through to them stepping out the door at the end of a trial day. Using exact measures to carefully track applicants, and giving feedback along the way helps candidates stay interested, and helps you get the best person for the job

Organisations that seek to thrive in the digital age must examine their core management practices. So much of our management practice was created in the industrial age and not all of it remains useful in the face of software. Managers and leaders inside and outside of the software world need a new set of principles for the next century of work. Recorded live at Business of Software Conference USA in Boston, MA in 2017 For more great talks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and adviser who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Wildcat Venture Partners portfolios and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google, and Splunk. In this BoS Talk from the Business of Software conference USA 2009, Moore looks at the challenges faced by start-up companies transitioning from early to mainstream customer bases. Recorded live in San Francisco in 2009. For more great talks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

Alison Coward is founder of consulting and facilitation agency Bracket, helping teams in the creative and technology sector to collaborate better and improve their performance. It’s not just enough to hire talented people and hope for the best. Innovation and complex problem-solving requires teamwork, so we need to pay attention to how people work together. Building great products means creating the best environment for teams to thrive. In this talk, Alison will share her insights on effective collaboration, the habits of successful teams, and principles for designing an outstanding team culture. Recorded live at Business of Software Conference Europe in London, UK in 2018. For more great talks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

The year is 1999 and Google launch their defining OKRs video. Twenty years later Whitney O'Banner takes to the BoS stage to ask why these goals have never been redefined for the ever changing world we now live in. Hear how Whitney (the Engineering Manager at Medium) delves into which aspects of Google’s video should be embraced, which should be updated in line with the times, and which should've  been left in the ’90s. This talk was recorded live at Business of software Conference USA 2019 in Boston, MA. for more great talks visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

Design is a process where we finely tune our intuition to create great user experiences. Yet, sometimes, what we think is best rivals the metrics. What do we believe – our gut or the data? This talk from Jared Spool will teach you: What easily-collected analytics, like bounce rate, actually tell us about our users’ experiences Why techniques like a money-left-on-the-table analysis can show us how metrics impact design Why asking, ”Would you recommend this?”, is a bad way to measure brand engagement Recorded live at Business of Software Conference USA in Boston, MA 2018 For more great videos of BoStalks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

Carl Ryden has been a regular attendee at Business of Software Conferences for a long time. His company PrecisionLender has seen incredible growth leading to acquisition in 2019 and providing a huge amount of value in the banking sector.  In this talk, Carl talks about how PrecisionLender use AI to offer a valuable service to their customers, and what he sees as the future of AI. Recorded live at Business of Software Conference Europe in Cambridge, UK in 2018 For more great BoS talks go to businessofsoftware.org/videos.

Building a company takes an extraordinary amount of effort, no matter your role, and both life and competitors don't hold punches for anyone. CEO and Founder of ProfitWell, Patrick Campbell knows this first hand. Using his experience bootstrapping ProfitWell to $10M and beyond (while simultaneously undergoing some pretty big personal roadblocks), he talks us through essential frameworks to help you handle problems in the proper context, while also teaching some operational takeaways to keep you ahead of the increasingly competitive landscape. Recorded live at Business of Software conference USA 2019 in Boston, MA. For more talks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

Teresa Torres is a Product coach at ProductTalk.org advocating strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what teams are learning in their research with the product decisions that they are making.  If you are like most leaders, you got to where you are because you are good at making decisions. You can quickly go from strategy to execution and you know exactly what should be done next. But if we make all the output decisions (e.g. what to build, what programs to roll out, how a process should work), our company’s solutions are only as good as we are. To avoid this trap, instead of telling our teams what to do, we need to tell them what outcomes we expect them to drive. Recorded live at Business of Software USA 2019 in Boston, MA. For more talks visit businessofsoftware.org/videos