What's up everybody, it's Patrick here. We are taking a quick break this week, but have no fear. What's going on is we are preparing to launch something special for you during the month of July. Over the past couple months, we have surveyed hundreds of engineering leaders from our community to learn about the most critical challenges that you are facing right now and where you're looking to grow. So we have identified the top 10 challenges that engineering
leaders are facing right now. And so we're going to release a special series of four episodes. And here's what you can expect. The first three episodes, we compile and share some of the very best insights that we've learned from different speakers in our community. And these are sourced from hundreds of different events, podcasts and conference sessions.
So it covers everything. Then for the final episode, we're going to be joined by one of our first podcast guests ever on the show, Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering at Shopify, who's going to tackle all 10 challenges in one go. And this is going to be a rapid fire, high density conversation that you don't want to miss. And I can tell you right now, Farhan brings the heat to this conversation. So you're probably wondering, what are some
of these challenges? What are we going to get into? So it's everything from motivating inspiring others, managing up, influencing and creating buy-in, developing and coaching your team, working cross functionally. We get into measuring productivity and creating meaningful metrics. We talk about velocity without losing quality, the process around thinking strategically about engineering in the business. We talk about how to think
about team topology and org planning and aligning engineering and business goals. So stay tuned for the first episode of this special series launching next week. And I want to invite you to join the conversation. We want to know what you've learned and how you are tackling these critical issues. So send us an email or share a comment on LinkedIn, jump into the discussion. We want to know the tactics. We want to know the frameworks,
the strategies, the approaches, the things that you are doing to address this. And then we want to share this wisdom across the community. So get ready to tackle the top 10 challenges that engineering leaders are facing right now. And we'll see you next week.