by Jen Oppenheimer | Mar 20, 2025 | Project Management, Tech
Every team has to deal with tech debt, and they take a variety of approaches to how they address it within their team, and how involved product management is in those decisions. How should you allocate time for working on tech debt? Should it be represented on your...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Dec 12, 2023 | Agile, Developers, General, Kanban, Project Management, Team Management
Episode 30 wraps up our third season of the Scaling Tech Podcast! Every 10 episodes, we do a recap episode of lessons learned from our guests. In this special episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast, we review some of our favorite clips from episodes 21-29. In this...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Dec 5, 2023 | Kanban
Forecasting is inherently probabilistic – meaning that we cannot say anything definitively about the future, we can only give the probability that something may happen. This is intrinsic to software development but a hard concept to convey to those who just want...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Nov 21, 2023 | Agile, Team Management
Scaling technology is one thing, but scaling technical teams is quite another. In this episode, we talk with author Jurgen Appelo about his “unFIX” pattern for scaling agile teams. We talk about the challenges of scaling agile teams, team empowerment,...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Oct 24, 2023 | Team Management
Building a good team is like solving a puzzle, as our guest Allison McMillan describes in this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast. Allison is an engineering leadership consultant who works as a fractional VP of Engineering, and also consults to companies on...
