Author: Andrew Parker
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S1E24 – Weaving Your Team Fabric (Building Your Engineering Organization Series – Part 3 of 5)
Show Notes Let’s imagine that you are just taking on an engineering organization. Maybe it is new to you or maybe it is completely new. What should you do to set yourself up for success? What are some of the important, or critical, aspects to think through, write down, nail down, or get agreement on?…
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S1E23 – Building on the Foundation (Building Your Engineering Organization Series – Part 2 of 5)
Show Notes Let’s imagine that you are just taking on an engineering organization. Maybe it is new to you or maybe it is completely new. What should you do to set yourself up for success? What are some of the important, or critical, aspects to think through, write down, nail down, or get agreement on?…
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S1E22 – Laying The Foundation (Building Your Engineering Organization Series – Part 1 of 5)
Show Notes Let’s imagine that you are just taking on an engineering organization. Maybe it is new to you or maybe it is completely new. What should you do to set yourself up for success? What are some of the important, or critical, aspects to think through, write down, nail down, or get agreement on?…
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S1E21 – Psychological Whatchamacallit?
Show Notes What is safe about psychological safety? Do you really want everyone to feel comfortable all the time? Research tells us that psychological safety is a key component of effective teams and organisations. This week Mon-Chaio and Andy dig into the whats and wherefores of psychological safety. They dive into how it is measured,…
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S1E20 – Vacationcast – Feelings and Sword Fighting
Show Notes What has Andy been reading recently? Where is Mon-Chaio? In this quick vacationcast you’ll find out the answer to both of those questions. Andy studied kendo for several years at the University of Washington and at the Highline Kendo Kai in Seattle under Marsten Sensei. He hasn’t practiced for many years, but hopes…
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S1E19 – Building a Better (Hiring) Mousetrap
Show Notes You are a hiring manager and your organization has given you the green light to hire more people. What do you do next? Many people might feel the answer is obvious but for a surprisingly large number of companies, their hiring processes actively impede them from building great teams. Andy and Mon-Chaio pull…
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S1E18 – How many ways are there to structure teams?
Show Notes What is the right way to have dev and ops work together? Is that different for data science? We look into ways these different specialities can be organised to foster collaboration. Development and operations has a lot of literature from the DevOps movement that gives us guidance for how to structure teams but…
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S1E17 – We Need More Heads … or Do We?
Show Notes A new project comes down the pike and Engineering asks for more heads to ship said project. Is this a reasonable request or are there other tactics we can use to “do more with less”? Mon-Chaio and Andy explore this common situation from both sides and offer specific diagnostic techniques to move the…
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S1E16 – Developer Productivity?
Show Notes Can you measure developer productivity? Prompted by an article by McKinsey and already reacted to by many, we ask if McKinsey is telling us to measure something that is at all useful, how to think about the problem McKinsey raises, and what you, as a technical leader, can do to address that problem…
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S1E15 – VacationCast – My Current Reading List
Show Notes Mon-Chaio gives a rundown of leadership books he’s read in the past few months and pulls out interesting nuggets from each selection. References: Transcript Mon-Chaio: Welcome to a vacation cast episode of the TTL Podcast. Andy is on vacation this week, so I’ll be your host through a much shorter episode. Today I’m…