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...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Oct 10, 2023 | Tech
What is the future of AI, and how will it affect the way that we conduct work? In this episode we speak with an expert in the field: Vijay Parthasarathy, Head of AI and ML at Zoom. Vijay will draw on his experiences in AI at Zoom, Meta, and Apple, as well as the...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Sep 26, 2023 | General, Tech
In today’s world, data is no longer the purview of data scientists alone. Data is Everybody’s Business, which is also the title of Professor Barb Wixom’s new book from MIT Press. In this conversation, we learn how to monetize data via Improving,...
