Podcasts

Building Composable Teams: Moving Beyond Rigid Organizational Structures

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Luv Kapur about building composable team structures, creating trust through transparency and clarity, and enabling fluid organizational design through API-first team principles.

Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical Teams Effectively

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg about how understanding brain science and emotional intelligence can help engineers and technical leaders improve communication, manage conflict, and build stronger teams.

Building Engineering Culture Through Autonomy and Ownership

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Marcos Arribas about building and scaling engineering culture as an organisation grows, emphasizing autonomous teams, ownership mentality, progressive feature rollouts with flags, small pull requests, strategic AI adoption, and the importance of hiring junior engineers for long-term organizational growth.

How Blameless Culture Transforms Engineering Teams

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Tameem Hourani about building a blameless engineering culture through radical transparency, focusing on system resilience over individual blame, and creating high-performing teams that can embrace change and learn from failures.

The Myth of 100% Utilization: The Neuroscience of Productive Teams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Shannon Mason about optimizing team productivity by understanding the neuroscience behind cognitive load, distinguishing between beneficial "slack time" and detrimental "idle time", and how the pursuit of maximum utilization that leads to burnout and poor decision-making.