Business of Software Podcast

How would you feel about being posed the contention that prioritisation is really about saying no to good ideas because there’s always too many of them? There’s always more of them than we can handle and we’ve got to focus not just on the good ideas but on the truly great ideas. In this BoS Talk from Product Guru Bruce McCarthy, he will walk you through the ins and outs of prioritisation and why they are important and where we can improve our prioritisation in our companies. Recorded live at Business of Software Conference USA in Boston, MA, September 2018. For more great talks, visit businessofsoftware.org

21 Jul 20201h 2min

Isa Watson talks about some of the ways that companies can provide a better environment for humans to work and share how she came to realize that in her startup, she had to bring her ‘best self’ to the business every day. Recorded live at Business of Softare Conference USA 2018, in Boston, MA. For more great talks, visit businessofosftware.org/videos

14 Jul 202047min

Author, lecturer, and computer scientist with an MBA, Clarke Ching has been powered by Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints for 25 years, and using it to speed up Agile since 2003. Whereas others go deep into the details, acquiring more and more knowledge, Clarke went deep into ToC and Agile, and then decided to go wide - cherry-picking both bodies of knowledge, simplifying them, then sharing the most useful bits far and wide. Clarke's BoS USA talk “Rock paper scissors” looks at the everyday stories that can help you make changes in your business, what you can learn from them, and how you can iomplent real change. Recorded live at BoS Conference Europe 2016 For more great talks from great speakers, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

7 Jul 202047min

It's not easy finding the right candidate for a role in your team, and it's even harder to make them feel integrated into the company that they want to stay long term. In this BoSTalk, Elpie Bannister (former former Director of Talent at Simprints) and Alex Yang (VP Engineering at Simprints) look at how to manage a new recruit from the moment their application lands in your inbox through to them stepping out the door at the end of a trial day. Using exact measures to carefully track applicants, and giving feedback along the way helps candidates stay interested, and helps you get the best person for the job

30 Jun 202052min

Organisations that seek to thrive in the digital age must examine their core management practices. So much of our management practice was created in the industrial age and not all of it remains useful in the face of software. Managers and leaders inside and outside of the software world need a new set of principles for the next century of work. Recorded live at Business of Software Conference USA in Boston, MA in 2017 For more great talks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

23 Jun 202056min

Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and adviser who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Wildcat Venture Partners portfolios and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google, and Splunk. In this BoS Talk from the Business of Software conference USA 2009, Moore looks at the challenges faced by start-up companies transitioning from early to mainstream customer bases. Recorded live in San Francisco in 2009. For more great talks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

16 Jun 202058min

Alison Coward is founder of consulting and facilitation agency Bracket, helping teams in the creative and technology sector to collaborate better and improve their performance. It’s not just enough to hire talented people and hope for the best. Innovation and complex problem-solving requires teamwork, so we need to pay attention to how people work together. Building great products means creating the best environment for teams to thrive. In this talk, Alison will share her insights on effective collaboration, the habits of successful teams, and principles for designing an outstanding team culture. Recorded live at Business of Software Conference Europe in London, UK in 2018. For more great talks, visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

9 Jun 202057min

The year is 1999 and Google launch their defining OKRs video. Twenty years later Whitney O'Banner takes to the BoS stage to ask why these goals have never been redefined for the ever changing world we now live in. Hear how Whitney (the Engineering Manager at Medium) delves into which aspects of Google’s video should be embraced, which should be updated in line with the times, and which should've been left in the ’90s. This talk was recorded live at Business of software Conference USA 2019 in Boston, MA. for more great talks visit businessofsoftware.org/videos

1 Jun 202034min