Manuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer at IBM, about mainframe software delivery, from technical evolution to the mindset change required to adopt DevOps and modern development practices. Why listen to this podcast: - Large organizations have not evolved practices in mainframe systems due to cultural challenges, not technical. - Most mainframe applications still have high business value but don't take advantage of modern hardware. - Modern ...
May 29, 2017•30 min
In this podcast Manuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to Gene Kim, co-author of the "DevOps Handbook" and "The Phoenix Project" books, on how to scale DevOps in large organizations ("horses") and the need for continuous learning and adaptation. Why listen to this podcast: - DevOps Enterprise Summit focuses on continuously learning from leaders elevating technical practices and cultural norms at large, complex organizations. - Remaining challenges in large organizations include largely...
May 22, 2017•34 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Adam Tornhill of Empear on combining psychology and software engineering, technical debt. Why listen to this podcast: - The problems in software engineering are not technical they are almost always people related - A lot of technical debt is not actually technical in nature – it is due to organisational and social factors...
May 15, 2017•25 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Hand of VictorOps about the DevOps culture, what ChatOps is and powerful post-mortems. Why listen to this podcast: - The misaligned incentives between development and operations in many organisations - The need to instil a sense of ownership across the whole delivery organisation where everyone takes responsibility for solving problems, rather than saying “that’s not my job” - There is no roadmap to change the ...
May 08, 2017•26 min
In this podcast, Shane Hastie speaks to Portia Tung, founder of the School of Play, author and executive coach, about the critical importance of play in the workplace. Why listen to this podcast: - Culture is defined by what people say and think, based on what’s expected of them and the environment they are in - You don’t change culture – you grow it. Culture is emergent based on the ingredients you put into the mix for growing it - The high rates of depression and burnout in high-tech organisat...
May 01, 2017•24 min
Shane Hastie spoke to Chris Matts “The IT Risk Manager”, one of the original thinkers behind Real Options, Feature Injection and Behaviour Driven Development, about BDD, Real Options, Risk Management and the Impact of Culture for Effective Outcomes. Why listen to this podcast: - Real Options is about translating the ideas from financial risk management into IT projects - Understanding that things go wrong and that what is thought of as the last responsible moment is often actually too late and i...
Apr 24, 2017•29 min
Shane Hastie, Lead Editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Susan Rose and Aileen Palmer of Grandview Prep about their experiences using Scrum in their school environment. Why listen to this podcast: • Taking on Agile & Scrum as a way to get things happening more effectively in the school • Agile/Scrum is a natural fit for the education environment • These are skills which students will take with them and are crucial to success in the 21st century workplace • Not imposed as a mandate, rath...
Apr 10, 2017•18 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Betty Zakheim, VP of Industrial Strategy for Tasktop and treating software development as a value stream which starts with an idea and goes through to getting feedback from real customers. Why listen to this podcast: - We often forget about the aspects of the requirements which are beyond the written word - Debunking the stereotypes of software developmentUsing the Definition of Done to encourage shifting responsibil...
Apr 03, 2017•26 min
In this podcast, recorded at the Agile New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kaila Colbin from the Ministry of Awesome and Singularity University about the Nature of Technological Innovation and the Implications for Society Why listen to this podcast: - The nature of technological innovation and the implications for society - The doubling curve which shows how innovations advance (eg Moore’s Law) - The doubling in price-performance trend applies ...
Mar 27, 2017•28 min
In this podcast, recorded at the Agile New Zealand conference in November 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David West, CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org, about the history of Scrum, the importance of empiricism and improving the profession of software delivery. Why listen to this podcast: - Between 12 and 15 million people use Scrum on a daily basis - Scrum.org’s mission is about improving the profession of software delivery, not having more people use the S...
Mar 20, 2017•33 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Richard Kasperowski at the QCon San Francisco conference. Why listen to this podcast: - Agile is not new, and the ideas help organisations focus on building the right thing and building it right - High performing teams have some specific characteristics which can be measured - Over 200 different things have been identified as “the one thing” needed for high performance - All the research shows that the social/cultu...
Mar 13, 2017•16 min
In our podcast this week Shane Hastie speaks to Michael Lopp, VP of Engineering at Slack, about intentional culture and continuous delivery. Why listen to this podcast: - Leadership is a craft that needs to be learned - Characteristics and common challenges of high-growth startups - Aspects of culture include how do we get things done, how do we treat each other, how do we make decisions, who has power and influence, what are the things that we value? - The importance of making values explicit a...
Mar 06, 2017•12 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ted DesMaisons and Lisa Rowland who spoke at QCon San Francisco on The Improvisor's Code: Engineering Your Best Self Why listen to this podcast: - The skills of improve are applicable outside a theatrical setting - You don’t have to be an extrovert to use these ideas - These are intra-personal skills as well as inter-personal – they help develop mindfulness and awareness at the individual level - The study of improvi...
Feb 27, 2017•19 min
In this podcast Ben Linders, an InfoQ editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Lianping Chen of Paddy Power about their adoption of continuous delivery. Why listen to this podcast: - An introduction to continuous delivery - It is possible and feasible to go faster while maintaining and improving the quality of the products being built - The benefits from adopting continuous delivery include reduced time from completing development to getting product into production and getting faster custo...
Feb 20, 2017•32 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Doug Kirkpatrick, organisational change expert, author and advocate for new ways of working. Why listen to this podcast: • Decentralization is replacing hierarchy and bureaucracy. Organisations need to be directly connected to the outside world and agilely adapt to changes in their ecosystems • The idea of people managing other people will fade and be replaced by people connecting to a mission and meaning, and managi...
Feb 13, 2017•36 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pat Reed of iHoriz about value innovation, adaptive leadership and what’s needed to create real business agility. Why listen to this podcast: - Business agility is about adapting and thriving in extreme uncertainty - Make value visible – really understand who your customer is and how value is derived in your organisation, then focus on only doing things that truly add value - The management practice of “doing more wi...
Feb 06, 2017•29 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Sakaguchi about his talk at QCon San Francisco 2016 and the research Google has done on what makes effective teams. Why listen to this podcast: - Psychological safety – people feel comfortable taking a risk or asking a question and know they will be supported by their team mates, they feel safe to share personal and “crazy” ideas - Dependability – the knowledge that team mates will deliver quality outputs and me...
Jan 30, 2017•19 min
Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sara Bayless Da Costa, visual storyteller and design thinking evangelist at Fjord. Bayless Da Costa gave a talk at QCon San Francisco on Rapid Prototyping Methods. They spoke about prototyping, collaborative design, designing for new interfaces and new skills that designers need in order to be successful with new technologies. Why listen to this podcast: - The importance of taking a collaborative design approach with multiple roles ...
Jan 23, 2017•14 min
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alexandre Freire Kawakami, a Director at Industrial Logic about his talk Enabling Awesome Engineering Teams, the ideas behind Modern Agile and the importance of feedback loops and real usage data for product development. Why listen to this podcast: - Overview of his talk on enabling awesome engineering teamsThe contradiction between values-driven and process-driven change - Modern Agile is designed to help people and...
Jan 16, 2017•19 min
In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mitch Shepard founder of WiRL about her talk at QCon and the challenges around gender diversity in the tech workforce. Why listen to this podcast: - Gender diversity and women leaving tech roles is a real and serious problem - There are compelling reasons to have a more diverse workplace – both ethical and bottom line results - “It’s nobody’s fault, but it is everybody’s problem” ...
Jan 09, 2017•23 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Douglas Talbot, Head of Organisational Effectiveness for Ocado Technology, about the challenges and opportunities involved in creating a culture of innovation and agility in “a technology company that also does retail”. Why listen to this podcast: - Differences in the way IT is approached in different parts of the wo...
Dec 26, 2016•32 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist. Case explains why VR is an important step along the way to Augmented Reality, how technology needs to fit in with social norms, and why calm technology is so important. Why listen to this podcast: - We are all cyborgs now - There is a clear sequenc...
Dec 19, 2016•34 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, recorded at Agile 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael de la Maza and David Benz about their minibook Why Agile Works, which is available at InfoQ.com. Why listen to this podcast: - In a startup you have to use an Agile approach – it just makes sense - It’s easy to teach practices, but with a foundation in the core values of agile then prac...
Dec 12, 2016•20 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2016 conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to five of the leading minds of Agile Management: Steve Denning, Ray Arell, Todd Little, Hendrik Esser and Steve Holyer. They explore the question “Is agile still agile?”, look at the challenges around agile development and product management, and what is needed for large scale agile...
Dec 05, 2016•47 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Melissa Perri, a UX and Product Management expert and founder of Produx Labs. Why listen to this podcast: - Put value first – it’s not about building more stuff but making sure we build the right thing for the right people - Product ownership is about optimising value for the organisation - Managers need to understand...
Nov 21, 2016•15 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to David Hussman, founder and “The Dude” from DevJam and CardBoard It!, a tool for story mapping. Why listen to this podcast: - Put value first – it’s not about building more stuff but making sure we build the right thing for the right people - Dude’s Law: Value = Why / How - Identify the impact that a product needs to m...
Oct 31, 2016•21 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Phil Brock, Rebecca Parsons, Paul Hammond and Victor Hugo about the state of the Agile Alliance, new initiatives being worked on around the world and the future of agility in the workplace. Why listen to this podcast: - The Agile 2016 conference was the largest ever with nearly 2500 people attending - The Agile Allian...
Oct 24, 2016•23 min
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Kent McDonald, Steve Adolph and Ryland Leyton about the state of business analysis and product management in agile product development. They were participants in a weekend workshop where the Agile Alliance and the International Institute of Business Analysis were collaborating to produce a revised version of the Agile...
Oct 10, 2016•40 min
This is the first in a new series of podcasts from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences - the Engineering Culture Podcast. In this podcast, Wes Reisz, chair of the QCon conferences in San Francisco, London and New York talks to Phil Haack, an Engineering Director at GitHub focused on software pushed mostly to the desktop. He’s shipping software like GitHub Desktop, GitHub Extensions for Visual Studio and the Atom text editor. Haack joined GitHub in 2011 and is a prominent member ...
Oct 04, 2016•28 min
