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2022 Year in Review: ADRs, Staff Plus, Platforms, Sustainability, and Culture Design
In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2022 and muse on what they hope to see in 2023. Topics explored included: the benefits of architecture decision records (ADRs), the role of Staff Plus engineers, treating platforms as a product, the importance of sustainability and green IT, and more.
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InfoQ Podcaster 2020 Year in Review: Challenges, Distributed Working & Looking to the Future
In this podcast, InfoQ podcast hosts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Charles Humble and Daniel Bryant, sit down for the 2020 year in review edition of the podcast. Topics discussed included: the technology industry’s response to the change in working habits; the rise of online events; the future of cloud platforms; remote working and leadership; and the need to be kind to yourself and others.
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Pat Kua on Technical Leadership, Cultivating Culture, and Career Growth
In this podcast, we discuss a holistic approach to technical leadership, and Kua provides guidance on everything from defining target operating models, cultivating culture, and supporting people in developing the career they would like. There are a bunch of great stories, several book recommendations, and additional resources to follow up on.
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Camille Fournier on Platform Engineering, Engineering Ladders, and Her Book “The Managers Path”
On the podcast this week, Charles Humble talks to Camille Fournier about running a platform team, how her current role differs from the CTO role she had at Rent the Runway, the skills developers need to acquire as they move from engineering to management positions, trends like Holacracy, and her book "The Manager's Path".
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Empowering Women in STEM & Building Inclusive Teams through Cooking
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Kimberley Fox about her work empowering women in STEM, helping create cultures where women feel welcome and included
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Great Products Need a Culture of Quality and Passionate People
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Melissa Daley, Bob Crews and Adam Sandman, about the state of testing and how to instil a culture of quality into software teams
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People Matter Most in Organisational Change
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Simon Powers about why organisational change is hard, putting people first, the need for emergence rather than recipes and his new book Change: A practitioners guide to Enterprise Agile Coaching
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Kanplexity as an Approach to Tackle Complex Problems
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to John Coleman about using Kanplexity when the problems you face are complex and evolving and other frameworks don’t fit.
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Stop Having Meetings that Suck - Patricia Kong on Why Facilitation Should be a Core Competency
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Patricia Kong of Scrum.org about the importance and value of facilitation skills for collaborative teams.
Resources
Top 10 fallacies in platform engineering
Many organizations are planning to or already building an Internal Developer Platform. Here are the top 10 fallacies we have seen teams fall into.
What is an Internal Developer Platform
Learn more about Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and how they pave golden paths for developers and drive standardization by design.
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What is platform engineering?
Learn more about the discipline of designing and building Internal Developer Platforms that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.
5 things to consider when going cloud native
Too often, engineering organizations set out to their cloud native journey without a solid foundation. These 5 key principles can help remedy this.