Hacking the Org

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You can’t crack company culture with code. And so the ‘WTF is Cloud Native?’ team at Container Solutions brings you Hacking the Org–30 minute conversations with software leaders to share case studies of organisational structures and management techniques

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    • Apr 14, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 35m AVG DURATION
    • 13 EPISODES


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    Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors on Code Rewrites, Acquisitions, Observability, and Team Performance

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023 32:46


    Jennifer Mace on How Google Does SRE

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2023 34:17


    Charles Humble talks to Jennifer Mace, aka as Macey. She gives us her definitions of "site reliability engineer" and “toil”, discusses how google recruits SREs, explores how to manage risk and speed, and the pros and cons of having a centralised SRE function and why that model, vs. the “You build it, you run it” model preferred by Netflix, works well at Google. She also offers advice for junior SREs and tells us what it is like when the pager goes off.

    Syntasso COO Paula Kennedy on Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2023 33:20


    Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms.  They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard against them at both a team and organisational level; proving the value of a platform team to the business; setting up a platform team; lessons learned from Pivotal; and the Syntasso product.

    Adrian Cockcroft on Serverless, Continuous Resilience, Wardley Mapping, Large Memory Systems and Sustainability

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2023 39:34


    Charles Humble talks to Adrian Cockcroft, ex of AWS, Battery Ventures and Netflix. They discuss: memes in computing, serverless first, chaos and ideas around continuous resilience, strategy and Wardley Mapping, using large hardware such as AWS ultra clusters, and sustainable software.

    Toli and Andy Norton from Cinch on Team Topologies, Theory of Constraints, and Serverless

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2023 40:09


    Charles Humble talks to Apostolis Apostolidis (aka Toli) and Andy Norton from Cinch, arguably one of the UKs most successful start-ups.  They discuss: how the company got started, how Team Topologies, the Spotify Model, and the Theory of Constraints influenced how the organisation was designed; building a learning organisation; migrating from Kubernetes to Serverless; and observability and SRE practices at the firm.

    Podcast: Silicon Valley Product Group's Christian Idiodi on Product Management Skills and Product Discovery

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2022 35:59


    In this episode Charles Humble talks to Silicon Valley Product Group partner Christian Idiodi about how he got started in product management, the Certified Scrum Product Owner and MBA pathologies,  how product management is badly taught, the skills you need, and how to improve.

    Sudden Compass Co-Founder Matt LeMay on Effective Product Management and Conducting User Research

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2022 36:16


    Charles Humble and Matt LeMay explore what the job of product manager entails, common A/B testing pitfalls, conducting user research, dealing with senior stakeholders, and managing prioritisation.

    GitHub Director of Engineering Liz Saling on Pausing Feature Development to Focus on Tech Debt and DevEx

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 30:51


    Charles Humble talks to Liz Saling, Director of Engineering at GitHub. They discuss the role of developer experience at GitHub, why the firm paused feature development for an entire quarter to focus on making developer experience improvements, service ownership, and handling feedback.

    Sarah Wells on The Role of a Tech Director, Internal Tech Conferences, and Developer Enablement at the FT

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2022 41:03


    Charles Humble talks to Sarah Wells,  Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement at the  Financial Times.  They discuss the role of the tech director, explore what Developer Enablement (AKSA as Developer experience/DevEX and Developer Productivity) is, examples of DevEx tooling, running an internal tech conference, her upcoming book and reading recommendations.

    Courtney Kissler on Driving Technological Transformations at Nike, Nordstrom, Starbucks and Zulily

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2022 44:45


    Charles Humble talks to Zulily CTO and SVP of Technology Courtney Kissler about experience in driving technological transformations at Nike, Nordstrom, Starbucks and Zulily.  They discuss Courtney's journey within DevOps and how her experience leading transformations at large enterprises including Nordstrom, Starbucks and Nike led her to Zulily.  Topics include the importance of fixed capacity; creating a generative culture where team members feel they can be honest and supported; the 90 day framework; Value stream mapping and how this can help teams  increase the flow of value to customers; technical debt and more.

    Manuel Pais on Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 30:54


    Charles Humble talks to Team Topologies co-author Manuel Pais. They discuss how the rapid adoption of Team Topologies may be being driven by companies seeking a new competitive advantage as DevOps and Cloud become ubiquitous; applying software engineering thinking to organisational design; the challenges of cross-team collaboration in a remote context; and using Team Topologies patterns for remote working.

    Susanne Kaiser on Joining the Dots Between Wardley Mapping, Domain Driven Design and Team Topologies

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 30:45


    Charles Humble talks to Susanne Kaiser, an independent tech consultant from Hamburg, Germany, supporting organisations with building socio-technical systems. They explore her thinking on combining Wardley Mapping with Domain Driven Design and perspectives from Team Topologies, and how this thoughts into broader ideas around socio-technical systems and optimising for fast flow. Transcript and show notes

    VP Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay Randy Shoup on Improving their Developer Velocity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2022 33:14


    In our first "Hacking the Org" podcast, Charles Humble talks to Randy Shoup, VP Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay. They discuss how eBay's architecture has evolved, discovering problems in engineering using value stream mapping, measuring engineering team velocity, and making cultural change. Transcriot and show notes.

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