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 | 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 Arin Sime | Nov 7, 2023 | Team Management
How do you engineer your systems to be highly reliable, especially in a regulated environment like healthcare? Dr Vladyslav Ukis joins us to explain the concepts of Site Reliability Engineering, how to choose and manage Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets, and...
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 | Aug 15, 2023 | Team Management
Getting promoted into management can be the most exciting and terrifying moment of a person’s career. In this episode, we speak with Leadership Coach Jen Dary about her work training and mentoring managers, and the particularly difficult aspects of being a first...
by Jen Oppenheimer | May 2, 2023 | Developers, Team Management
How did you learn to become an engineering manager? If you’re like most people, you were largely self taught. Engineering managers are often promoted from senior engineering roles and they have probably not been taught best practices in managing teams. In this...
