Category: Season 1
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S1E27 – Christmas Eggnog
Transcript Andrew Parker: [00:00:00] Welcome to another episode of the TTL podcast, where we’re going to talk about a very important tech topic, which is eggnog. it is a tech topic, isn’t it Mon Chaio? I’m, Mon-Chaio: It became a tech topic I think we put it into the tech vernacular in the early 2000s,…
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S1E26 – Continuous Improvement (Building Your Engineering Organization – Part 5 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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S1E25 – Smooth Operation (Building Your Engineering Organization – Part 4 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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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…