Episode 31: Closing Episode
The final episode of the podcast (or at least the first season)
28 Syys 20242min
Episode 30: Measuring productivity with Laura Tacho
Laura is not only a coach to engineering leaders but also the CTO at DX, a company focused on improving developer productivity. But Laura has been talking about development metrics for a lot longer, a...
14 Syys 202449min
Episode 29: What CTOs look for in manager of managers with Meri Williams
Meri has a tonne of experience managing managers as a serial CTO, and we chat about everything from being a non-executive director, common traps of first-time directors/VPs of Engineering, what they l...
31 Elo 202448min
Episode 28: Leadership skills and energy management with Alice Bartlett
The Financial Times (FT) uniquely combines individual contributor and management responsibilities in senior engineering roles. In this episode, I talk to Tech Director Alice Bartlett about what that’s...
17 Elo 202442min
Episode 27: The challenges of being a middle manager and more with Lena Reinhard
I’m so pleased I got to chat with Lena, who happens to also be based in my hometown, Berlin. In this episode, we chat about the challenges of being a middle manager, becoming an accidental leader, wha...
3 Elo 202447min
Episode 26: Building a blameless culture, systems thinking and more with Crystal Hirschorn
Although we’ve never worked together, it seems like CTO Crystal Hirschorn and I were positively influenced by many movements in tech such as XP, lean and systems thinking and in this episode we chat a...
20 Heinä 202442min
Episode 25: Being a leader first, then a manager with Sarah Abrantes
In this conversation with VP of Engineering, Sarah Pimentel Abrantes, we cover the importance of being a leader before being a manager, the challenge of letting go at different stages, how to countera...
6 Heinä 202442min
Episode 24: Designing Team APIs as a manager of managers and more with Jess Mink
Although currently Director of Platform Engineering, Jess Mink is an unusual manager of manager in tech, who’s also played a full-time product role. Listen to this episode as they explain what they to...
22 Kesä 202448min
