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Sep 2, 2022 • 30min
Great Engineers are Always Learning – Lessons from a Unicorn Founder
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Idit Levine, founder of Solo.io, who is on the shortlist of women-founded Unicorn status startups in the world.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3cwK3k6
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
- Oct 2-6, 2023
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Aug 29, 2022 • 31min
Friction in Data Analytics Workflows Causing Stress and Burnout
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Matthew Scullion about the state of the data analytics workforce, friction in data analytics value streams and the resultant high rates of stress and burnout.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3KuMHU5
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Aug 19, 2022 • 28min
Becoming Better Communicators To Enable Team Performance
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Arpit Mohan about the importance and value of interpersonal skills in teamwork.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3QL2wrW
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
- Oct 2-6, 2023
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- August 23, 2022
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Aug 15, 2022 • 22min
Deliberately Designing Culture for Creativity and Innovation
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dean Guida of Infragistics about what's needed to enable and support a collaborative, innovative culture.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3pE4QFD
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
- Oct 2-6, 2023
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- August 23, 2022
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Aug 8, 2022 • 23min
Enabling a Collaborative and Welcoming Open Source Community
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Eric Arellano, Nick Grisafi and Josh Cannon of the Pants open source community about creating and maintaining an inclusive and supportive environment and developer experience.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3vN9gNz
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- August 23, 2022
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Jul 26, 2022 • 26min
Developer Satisfaction Is Key to Engineering Success
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Lilac Mohr of Pluralsight about engineering success, developer satisfaction, creating an environment of trust and growing new leaders.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3cB8KLT
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
- Oct 2-6, 2023
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- August 23, 2022
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Jul 16, 2022 • 24min
Engineering with Empathy
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Kelsey Hightower, a principal engineer with Google Cloud, about engineering with empathy, rethinking the hiring process and making others better.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ARmMDr
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
- Oct 2-6, 2023
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- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
QCon Plus online:
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
QCon London
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Jul 10, 2022 • 23min
Making the DevOps Pipeline Transparent and Governable
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to David Williams of Quali about DevOps culture, visibility into the pipeline and effective governance.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3c4mWN9
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
- Oct 2-6, 2023
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- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
QCon Plus online:
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
QCon London
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Jul 3, 2022 • 23min
Jessica Kerr on Software Teams and Software Products as Learning Systems
In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Jessica Kerr about how software teams and software products are symmathesys – learning systems that are made up of learning parts.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3a9ThSb
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
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- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
QCon Plus online:
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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Jun 24, 2022 • 23min
Experimenting for High-Growth Products
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Rachel Obstler of Heap Analytics about product-led growth, designing for customer self-service and how high growth products are constantly experimenting.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3buz0Hz
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- Oct 24-28, 2022
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- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
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- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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