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Engineering Culture by InfoQ

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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.

Episodes

Harry Brumleve on Optimizing Yourself and Enabling Great Culture

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Harry Brumleve who was the track chair for Optimizing Yourself Human Skills for Individuals Track. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/3nm2mIt Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of technologies, and architec...

Nov 13, 202018 min

Ayana Miller on Privacy & Data Governance and Julia Nguyen on Mental Health Tech for Good

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ayana Miller of Pinterest on privacy & data governance and Julia Nguyen about her open-source project if-me.org for supporting mental health Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/32k5dcZ Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated ea...

Nov 06, 202027 min

Dr Pamela Gay from the Planetary Science Institute on Citizen Science

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dr Pamela Gay from the Planetary Science Institute about her work using human wetware and machine learning in scientific research, fostering citizen science and ethical behabiours. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/2JkpiJF Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay inform...

Oct 30, 202021 min

Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Aaron Blohowiak of Netflix about using a framework for delegation to encourage ownership and engagement among team members. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/3dNpL2b Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of t...

Oct 23, 202021 min

Hoang Bao on Ethics, Privacy and Regulation in Software Engineering

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Hoang Bao who was the track chair for the Ethics, Regulation, Risk, and Compliance track. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/33Ezioz Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of technologies, and architectural best practices. Subscribe to The So...

Oct 09, 202020 min

Guillermo De Anda on Shifting Organisational Culture One Small Step at a Time

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Guillermo De Anda of ProKarma about digital transformations, shifting organisational culture one small step at a time and the importance of managers having a coaching mindset Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/34qQj4Z Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of technologies, and a...

Oct 06, 202031 min

Nishant Bhajaria on Security, Privacy and Ethics

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nishant Bhajaria about security, data privacy, ethics and privacy by design. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/2G36qNw Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of technologies, and architectural best practices. Subscribe to The Software Architects’ Newsletter: www.infoq.com/softw...

Sep 25, 202026 min

Jeff Jacobson on the Coaching Profession and Leadership

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Jacobson Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/2FNzZSY Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of technologies, and architectural best practices. Subscribe to The Software Architects’ Newsletter: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/

Sep 18, 202027 min

Daniel Mezick & Mark Sheffield on Open Space using Zoom

In this episode Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Daniel Mezick & Mark Sheffield about using Zoom for Open Space events. They have release a set of guidelines and a checklist for online Open Space events under a Creative Commons license. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the podcast: https://bit.ly/3mcdIza Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging ...

Sep 11, 202031 min

Em Campbell-Pretty on Scaling Culture and Greg Koeberger on Building a Culture you want to Work in

In these two episodes Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Em Campbell-Pretty about cultural change, the Scaled Agile Framework and her role as a SAFe Fellow. He then spoke to Greg Koeberger of readme.io about building a culture you want to work in. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the podcast: https://bit.ly/3brfO9m Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on ...

Sep 04, 202033 min

Eric Willeke & Ronica Roth on Leadership and Lisa Crispin on the State of Testing in Agile & DevOps

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Eric Willeke & Ronica Roth about supporting leadership through transformation and then he spoke to Lisa Crispin about the state testing in agile and DevOps Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the podcast: https://bit.ly/2QyD3ES Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-v...

Aug 28, 202037 min

Sandra Davey on Purposeful Aligned Governance and Product Management

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sandra Davey, Chair of Choice Australia and founder of The Product Space about governance with clear objectives and the current state of product management. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the podcast: https://bit.ly/3aJEXvD Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption...

Aug 21, 202027 min

Rashina Hoda on Pandemic Programming and Agile Nations

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dr Rashina Hoda or Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about the Pandemic Programming study, the importance of research into human factors in software development focusing on the programmer experience, how biases impact software design and what it means to be an agile nation. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the podcast: https://bit.ly/3axvnvL Follow us on Facebook, Twitter,...

Aug 17, 202022 min

Justin Dauer on Creative Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Justin Dauer about his new book Creative Culture – Human centred interaction, design and inspiration. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the podcast: https://bit.ly/2Pva0Bo Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of technologies, and architectural best practices. Sub...

Aug 07, 202023 min

Bas Vodde on LeSS, LeSS Huge and Descaling for Agility

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bas Vodde, one of the formulators of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) about how LeSS is designed to descale an organisation rather than scaling up to cope with complexity Why listen to this podcast: • LeSS is based on the idea of de-scaling and reducing complexity rather than scaling to cope with complexity •...

Jul 13, 202026 min

Quinn Slack of Sourcegraph on Moving to Fully Remote and Zoomcations

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph, about becoming a fully remote company, ways to improve communication and collaboration and the value of Zoomcations Why listen to this podcast: • If working remotely really is optional then it’s really important not to put any subtle pressure that says to people that they need to be in the office – it causes stress and confusion • Coming into a half-empty office feels like being in a disast...

Jul 06, 202025 min

Steve Adolph on Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Agility

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Adolph about the role of the product owner, the rock crusher for user stories and bridging the gap between “the business” and IT Tags: Agile, Agile 2019, Agile conferences, product management, product ownership, business agility, user stories, MVP, MMF Why listen to this podcast: • The role of the product owner often hides the complexity of product management and upstream activities designed t...

Jul 01, 202024 min

Lanette Creamer on Exploratory Testing and Technical Testers

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lanette Creamer about the need for technical skills by testers and the importance of exploratory testing. Why listen to this podcast: • Despite the importance and value it provides, software testing is not a particularly respected profession • Testers with development skills and developers with testing skills can communicate effectively with each other and pairing results in faster bug identificatio...

Jun 22, 202023 min

Scott Ambler on Disciplined Agile and Agile Beyond Software Teams

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile about the DA toolkit and taking agile beyond software devlopment Why listen to this podcast • Disciplined Agile is a toolkit which provides a view of agile adoption at four levels – software development, DevOps, IT departments and whole enterprise • The toolkit provides context and questions to help you to make better choices for the specific context each team is wo...

Jun 15, 202022 min

Steve Crago on Coaching, Mentoring and Facilitating Effective Teamwork

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Crago about how leaders need to be coaches, being a good mentor and facilitating effective meetings Why listen to this podcast • There is an expectation that leaders are able to be effective coaches for their teams today • There are tools such as the Leadership Circle Profile that can help you understand your own strengths and weaknesses • You don’t necessarily need to work on weaknesses – oft...

Jun 08, 202022 min

Derek Weeks on the 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey Results

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Derek Weeks of Sonatype about the results of the 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey and the All Day DevOps conference. Why listen to this podcast: • If you’re doing DevOps correctly then DevSecOps is already a part of it • Organisations with mature DevOps practices have more security tools and security is more tightly integrated into the overall environment • Organisations with mature teams have a higher percentage of happier...

Jun 05, 202032 min

Advices for Managers to Promote Mental Wellness in Turbulent Times

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Michelle O’Sullivan and Douglas Talbot about how managers and team leads can support the mental wellness of their teams through turbulent times Why listen to this podcast: • Good work is one of the best things for our mental health. It gives us a sense of purpose and it provides us with a community • Mental wellness is about how to speak with people, having open conversations, giving people practical support when they ne...

May 26, 202032 min

Steve Holyer on Running an Effective Open Space and Tim Meyers on Good Coaching

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Steve Holyer about facilitating open space events, then he spoke to Tim Meyers about the competencies and attitudes needed for good coaching Why listen to this podcast: (Open Space) • Open Space Technology is a powerful tool for engaging participation • Designing a good Open Space event take careful preparation and support • Open Space gives the benefit of the hallway conversations that are so...

May 11, 202036 min

Victor Germano, Deepti Jain and Angie Doyle on How the Agile Alliance Supports Community Initiatives

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to with Victor Germano, Deepti Jain and Angie Doyle about the ways the Agile Alliance supports community initiatives. Why listen to this podcast: • The Agile Alliance supports many initiatives which are the way that community members get involved with the work of the Alliance around the world • Initiatives are mainly member created ideas which support the value dials of the organisaiton: increase the d...

May 04, 202024 min

Collective Sensemaking and Deliberately Developmental Conversations

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Antoinette Coetzee and Jason Knight about Collective Sensemaking and Deliberately Developmental Conversations Tags: Agile, Agile 2019, Agile conferences, productivity, teamwork, psychological safety Key takeaways: • We are generally unaware of our own developmental stage in building relationships • Raising awareness and exploring our own perceptions is possible and a powerful tool for building relat...

Apr 27, 202030 min

Chris Bailey on Productivity Hacking and Hyperfocus

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Chris Bailey about his book Hyperfocus and techniques for productivity hacking. Why listen to this podcast: • For many of us, having available time is not the problem – it’s having available attention • We all have a chronotype which shows the time of day when we are most productive • Productivity is about more than just managing time – it’s about managing time, energy and attention • Research shows...

Apr 20, 202028 min

Jono Bacon on Building Community and Remote Collaboration

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jono Bacon about building communities, the value of community when suddenly working remotely and remote collaboration. Why listen to this podcast: • In the suddenly remote environment caused by COVID-19, community becomes even more important than when teams were mainly collocated • Every business has got an internal community to a degree, often somewhat accidental in nature, but when you become remote you need to lean on t...

Apr 13, 202021 min

Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson on Mental Health and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson from Container Solutions about maintaining mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why listen to this podcast: • Mental health and wellness is not a new challenge for the technology industry, and it is more openly discussed today that is has been previously • The COVID-19 pandemic has put many people into a collective state of shock. • Acknowledging the emotional reaction...

Apr 07, 202027 min

Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby on Their Book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby about their book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams Why listen to this podcast: • There are important mindset shifts that are needed to help enable distributed teams to be effective • You can’t take practices and approaches that are designed for co-located teams and apply them to distributed teams without adapting them to the new context • Distributed teams...

Mar 30, 202031 min

Panel: Suddenly Distributed - Effective Agility in The Age of Coronavirus

In this special edition of the podcast, made in conjunction with Retrium and the Agile Alliance, we brought together a panel of remote working experts to explore and share experiences around what teams and individuals can do to cope and be effective in the environment where so many people are suddenly forced to work from home and collaborate remotely. The panel consisted of: • David Horowitz • Mark Kilby • Lisette Sutherland • Judy Rees • Steve McCann • Charles Humble • Shane Hastie The full vid...

Mar 23, 202051 min
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