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Jun 13, 2022 • 27min
Mailchimp’s Culture of Production-ready, Momentum, Togetherness, and Pragmatism
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Eric Muntz of Mailchimp about how they attain production-ready, momentum, togetherness, and pragmatism. The value of internal apprenticeship systems, growing teams deliberately and removing friction in the developer experience.
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Jun 4, 2022 • 25min
Joy of Agility with Joshua Kerievsky
In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Joshua Kerievsky about his keynote at the Agile 2022 conference in July and his forthcoming book Joy of Agility.
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- June 21, 2022
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- August 23, 2022
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- March 26-31, 2023
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May 27, 2022 • 19min
Collaborating to Create Products Customers Love
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Sara Rossio Chief Product Officer at G2, about how product people and technical people collaborate to build great products that people love.
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- August 23, 2022
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May 22, 2022 • 17min
Building a Culture of Accountability and Curiosity
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Dan Langevin of Vericred about onboarding people well and creating a culture of accountability and curiosity.
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- August 23, 2022
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May 16, 2022 • 21min
Creating Great Company Culture that Doesn’t Suck and Improving the Developer Experience
In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Shanea Leven, CEO of CodeSee.io, about ways to visualize code, create a great company culture that doesn’t suck, and improve the developer experience.
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May 6, 2022 • 25min
15th State of Agile Report
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Derek Hold of Digital.ai about the 15th Annual State of Agile Report
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Apr 29, 2022 • 24min
Recruiting and Retaining Great Technologists
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods Shane Hastie spoke to Keren Halperin about what’s needed to recruit and retain great technologists in today’s dynamic employment environment.
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Apr 22, 2022 • 27min
Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Software Supply Chain
Shane Hastie spoke to Brian Fox of Sonatype about vulnerabilities and risks inherent in the modern software supply chain and how to overcome them.
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Apr 17, 2022 • 20min
InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report 2022 Part 2
This is the second part of the Culture& Methods trend report for 2022 where Shane Hastie spoke to Shaaron Alvares who was not able to join us for the first recording to explore what she has seen over the last year and the trends she sees going forward
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Apr 14, 2022 • 25min
Randy Shoup on Creating High-Performance Cultures
This is a re-post from August 2019.
In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Randy Shoup, VP of Engineering at WeWork about what is needed to create a high-performance culture.
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