Podcast

Episode 14 – Building the Right Team

Discover effective recruitment approaches in software engineering. Context, diversity, and personal fit: the keys to building the right team.
Episode 13: Can DevSecOps be Damaging? with Kelsey Hightower

The team talk with Kelsey Hightower about the impact of integrating security into DevOps, sharing insights on best practices, automation, and serverless technologies.
Episode 12: Engineering Metrics and Team Effectiveness with Charity Majors

We discuss evaluating engineering team performance, the limitations of metrics, and the importance of human-centric management with special guest Charity Majors.
Episode 11: Chernobyl, Volkswagen, Ethics, and Psychological Safety with Tom Geraghty

Tom Geraghty of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs returns to continue our exploration of psychological safety. In this episode we take a look at real-world events such as Chernobyl and the Volkswagen emissions scandal and how psychological safety (or lack t...
Episode 10: Psychological Safety with Tom Geraghty

In episode 10, which is coincidentally our last episode for 2020, we had the pleasure of Tom Geraghty who is the Open Innovation Labs Transformation Lead at Red Hat, to talk about Psychological Safety. We talk how having a psychologically safe environm...
Episode 9: The Theory of Constraints with Tom Hoyland

Tom Hoyland of Sky Betting and Gaming joins us for this episode to talk about the Theory of Constraints from The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. We discuss how to increase the throughput for constraints to build high performing teams in agile engineering.
Episode 8: Agile Principles – Part 3

The final part of our Agile Principles series of episodes. In this episode we look at the final four principles of Agile to discuss what they might mean, and how we might live them in software engineering. Don’t forget, if you’re a fan of the podcast,
Episode 7: Agile Principles – Part 2

Following on from episode 6, we continue our exploration of the Agile Principles. In this episode we take a look at principles 5, 6, 7 and 8. We also take a look at what they mean to us, as well as insights into how we’ve used them in our own careers.
Episode 6: Agile Principles – Part 1

Following on from Agile 101 – The Agile Manifesto, we talk about the Agile principles; what they are, and deep dive into the first four of them and what they may mean. We also talk about how they’ve been lived or implemented in our experience.
Episode 5: Agile 101 – Agile Manifesto

This is the first episode in a series of episodes where we go back to basics and look at what Agile is. In this episode, we review the Agile Manifesto itself. We also discuss what it means to us, how it could be interpreted and what that looks like to ...