Developing Leadership

How Many EMs to Change a Lightbulb? May 02, 2023

Jason and Eiso explore the implications of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to flatten Meta's management layers and examine the current ratio of engineers to managers, questioning if this balance is truly efficient or if it's simply a byproduct of Silicon Valley culture.

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The Midwit Trap, & Why Tech Companies Are Falling For It Apr 18, 2023

Eiso and Jason discuss how engineering leaders can fall into the trap of midwit thinking (the infamous bell curve meme) where they have a surface level understanding of complex topics and use buzzwords to sound knowledgeable.
Why do managers become overly obsessed with specific tools? Why do companies encourage this behavior? What should leaders really be focusing on? Listen and find out!
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Mastering Leadership for High-Performing Teams with Sri Viswanath, former Atlassian CTO Apr 04, 2023

Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath shares his lessons on engineering leadership, such as aligning goals, handling difficult situations, and optimizing team metrics. Jason, Eiso and Sri talk about their experiences with system failures and the importance of technical mentors and CTOs in promoting better leadership.

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OK. Let’s talk about OKRs. Mar 21, 2023

Jason and Eiso share their love-hate relationship with OKRs and discuss the pedantic nature of setting objectives and how they ultimately help to align and empower organizations. They talk about setting and tracking goals, the often performative nature of OKRs, and the dangers of abstracting oneself away from the product you’re building.

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Placing Bets & Building Trust as an Engineering Leader Mar 07, 2023

Jason and Eiso explore the intersection between finance and engineering leadership and discuss the importance of position sizing in engineering orgs. From promotions to product initiatives and technology choices, leaders are constantly making bets. So the guys delve into decision making, risk management, trust, and the dangers of placing the wrong bets.

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Walking The Tightrope of Language & Culture (and why it’s hurting companies) Feb 21, 2023

Jason and Eiso get real about censorship culture in the tech industry. From free speech to the rights of employees and the role of companies in society. They chat about privilege in tech, whether we need democracy within tech companies, the role of culture stewards, and more.

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Can Sociopathic Leaders Teach Us Anything? Feb 07, 2023

Jason and Eiso deep dive into corporate politics, hierarchies, and the sociopaths that often sit at the top as they analyze the behaviors of famous C-Level leaders, such as Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, and pick apart what Engineering Leaders can learn from them.

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Creating Alignment in Superstar Engineering Teams with Phil Calçado Jan 24, 2023

Phil Calçado is the Global CTO at PicPay, one the largest engineering orgs in Latin America. He joins the podcast to re-tell his war stories as an engineering leader at SoundCloud, Digital Ocean, SeatGeek, MeetUp, and more celebrity-tier tech companies.

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F*ck Around and Find Out: The Recession & Engineering Leadership in 2023 Jan 10, 2023

Happy 2023! or is it?…

Jason and Eiso talk about the economic recession and share their predictions for the year ahead. They chat about what happened in 2022 that set the stage for 2023, what the hiring halt means for software engineers, what will happen to those that didn't prepare, and more!

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From Bottle-feeding to Bottlenecks: Parenting & Engineering Leadership with Allison McMillan Dec 27, 2022

Allison McMillan, VP of Engineering at Quota Path, joins us to talk about the transformation engineering leaders go through when they become parents and the lessons we can take parenting to our day-to-day as managers. From communication to rewards vs. consequences to dealing with other humans and their unique challenges.

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Managing an Engineering Team in a Remote-First World with Alexandra Sunderland Dec 13, 2022

Alexandra is a Senior Engineering Manager at Fellow.app and the author of Remote Engineering Management: Managing an Engineering Team in a Remote-First World.

She joins us to discuss creating an excellent remote work foundation and the challenges of jumping back into in-person interactions when needed. We also chatted about how remote emotions translate to in-person ones, segmenting emotional reactions, wearing different masks, and more.

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Diversity: The Secret Sauce of Engineering Success, with Bethany Foote Nov 29, 2022

Bethany Foote is the Head of Infrastructure Engineering at Outschool and has had a hell of a journey as a software engineer. She joins us to talk about how diversity makes companies better, share the stories she's heard from women in tech over the years, and how they taught her how to be a better leader, mentor, and coach.

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PMOs, Program Managers, and Slaying Reorgs with Shannon Vettes from BlaBlaCar Nov 15, 2022

Shannon Vettes is a transversal Product and Engineering Leader and self-proclaimed "process nerd" with a knack for reorgs (as long as you reaally need them!) and for making engineering leaders' lives easier. She joins the podcast for a deep dive into the PMOs and Program Manager's roles and when's the right time to introduce these roles and processes in your organization.

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How Engineering Leaders Can Inspire Action with Adrienne Lowe Nov 01, 2022

Adrienne Lowe shares her journey as an empathetic leader and how her goal to give people energy (rather than take it away) paved her way through a success engineering leadership career.

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Engineering Velocity: The Need for Speed in Software Engineering Oct 18, 2022

Jason & Eiso talk about Velocity in Software Engineering, what it means, how to measure it, why data and metrics won’t magically solve all your problems, and what engineering leaders can do for their teams to go faster.

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Building an Engineering Team in Japan with Kohsuke Kawaguchi Oct 04, 2022

Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, pulls back the curtain on building tech companies in Japan. He shares his lessons from Cloudbees and how building two very different engineering organizations from the ground up showed him the importance of diversity in engineering teams.

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An Engineering Leader’s Search for Meaning with Chad Fowler Sep 20, 2022

Join Chad Fowler, Jason Warner, and Eiso Kant in a heartfelt existential episode on what it means to be an engineering leader that will have you question if the manager path is the right one for you. An essential listen for anyone trying to find meaning in their role.

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The Power & Peril of Software Engineering Metrics with César Lugo from Typeform Sep 06, 2022

Cesar Lugo, Software Engineer and founding member of the Engineering Intelligence team at Typeform, joins us to talk about the power of engineering metrics and how data can help influence how organizations behave. Learn about continuous improvement frameworks that work and why industry benchmarks fall short of their goal to help engineering organizations thrive.

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Consensus Driven Cultures, Dev Influencers & Capacity Planning Aug 23, 2022

Jason and Eiso ad lib on a variety of topics. From consensus-driver cultures, the trouble with software engineering endorsements and capacity planning best practices.

Warning: Eiso recorded this episode from a boat out at sea (ahoy!), so that’s why you can sometimes hear background noises coming from his side. We apologize for this and will try to keep all recording sessions on land from now on.

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Reviving Engineering Teams & Overcoming the Fear of Shipping with Craig Kerstiens Aug 09, 2022

Craig Kerstiens joins us for a chat on decalcifying engineering teams, why you need to get your teams to ship more, and finding A-Players. Craig runs product and engineering at Crunchy Data and has been incredibly influential in the Postgres community.

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Leaders vs Managers & The Power of Sponsorship with Meri Williams Jul 26, 2022

Meri Williams, one of the most inspiring engineering leaders in the world, joins us for a discussion on managers vs. leaders, coaching vs. mentoring, how leaders can advise team members from different backgrounds, and the power of sponsorship.

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What Motivates Engineering Leaders? Jul 12, 2022

Jason and Eiso explore what motivates engineering leaders. They chat about how engineering value creation differs from other functions, what role ego plays as a motivating factor, engineering leadership role models, and more.

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Untangling & Optimizing Your Software Engineering Cycles, with Charity Majors Jun 28, 2022

Charity Majors, co-founder, and CTO of honeycomb.io, joins us to talk about everything that's wrong with engineering cycles, how throwing money at the problem by hiring more people is making it worse, and what we can do about it.

Find out:

How to create systems that increase software engineering productivity,
Which toolsets can enable shorter feedback loops,
How elite teams have figured it out,
How infrastructure engineering is key to all of this and more!

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How to Hire Engineers & Build Inclusive Teams with Dana Lawson from Netlify Apr 19, 2022

Dana Lawson, SVP of Engineering at Netlify and the human incarnation of sunshine, joins us on the podcast to share her lessons on hiring engineers and the interview process. We also spoke about the tech industry's changes in the last decade and how you can build inclusive software engineering teams.

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Leading Async Engineering Teams & Building Hardware with Andrew Conner from Levels Apr 05, 2022

Andrew Conner, Co-Founder and Engineering Leader at Levels, joins us to share his journey of leading an engineering team at a company with a strong hardware component. We spoke about building remote asynchronous companies, the importance of feedback loops, deep work, and transparency as you collectively build software and hardware.

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Transitioning From a Holacracy to a Strong Engineering Leadership Culture with Katie Wilde from Ambassador Labs Mar 22, 2022

Katie Wilde, the VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, joins us to spill the tea on Holacracy and decentralized management systems. Find out why these organizational structures don’t work for companies building software and how they can drive your best people away.

Katie also shared how her previous company, Buffer, transitioned from a Holacracy into a strong engineering leadership culture, through goal-oriented 1:1s, effective feedback, and creating a strong sense of responsibility among its leaders.

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The Art of Building Software & Running Organizations with Wade Arnold from Moov Mar 08, 2022

Co-Founder and CEO of Moov Financial, Wade Arnold, has had a hell of a journey as a software engineering leader. He joins us on the podcast to chat about building companies, attracting great software engineering talent, and increasing velocity as you scale.

Key takeaways:

Software engineers love working in an environment where their craft shines. If you manage to provide this, you will have no issues growing your team.
Finding technical engineering leaders is easy. You want to find technical engineering leaders who know how to create the right environment for their teams to thrive.
Don't get religious about your engineering tools and processes. What matters is getting things in front of the customer, and the tools you use to get there should simply facilitate that.

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Building Product Delivery Organizations with Jonathan Nolen from LaunchDarkly Feb 22, 2022

We welcome Jonathan Nolen, Senior VP of Engineering and Product at LaunchDarkly, to talk about his 100+ people Product Delivery team - a term coined by the company, where Engineering, Product, and Design come together.

Key Takeaways:

Tech companies should shift their mindset from building and shipping software to delivering services to customers.
Having Engineering, Product, and Design as one team with shared goals is key for all companies delivering services.
Impact is not just about visibility. Your teams need to articulate what their impact is, preferably in one sentence.
Structuring your orgs right is necessary for scaling, but finding the right individuals is essential for success.

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The Automagical Future of Software Engineering Feb 08, 2022

Eiso and Jason step up to the mic to make their wild guess on how the state of software engineering will evolve, given what we know now.

The tech industry will look a lot different in 20 and 30 years. From autonomous coding to self-driving cars to automatically powered engineering leadership. We might not be ready for that yet, but our kids are gonna love it!

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Things That Drive Us Crazy in Software Engineering Leadership Jan 25, 2022

In an episode dedicated to what we think the next generation of engineering leaders should avoid, Jason and Eiso talk about the books every engineering leader reads, the over-glorification of 80’s maniacal leaders, OKRs, and other tech industry things we love to hate.

Come for the roast. Stay for the solutions!

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The Rocky Road to Becoming an Engineering Leader with Nuno Antunes from Datadog Jan 11, 2022

Senior Director of Engineering at Datadog, Nuno Antunes, joins us to talk about a highly requested topic: Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Leader.

From striking the right balance between being a people vs. process-oriented leader to the challenges of building teams in fast-growing companies, this episode is jam-packed with teachable moments, workshop approaches, and the organizational shifts we've witnessed through the years.

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Building a Company Culture That Makes Sense with Sam Alba from Dagger Dec 28, 2021

Dagger Co-Founder, and Docker’s former VP of Engineering, Sam Alba, joins us for a retrospective on company culture and how early-stage teams should develop it as their companies evolve. As Dagger grows from a founding team of three to ten and so forth, Sam, Jason, and Eiso, share their views on building companies, leading by example, and the importance of embracing culture in a genuine way.

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Scaling Engineering Organizations with Erik Bernhardsson Dec 14, 2021

Erik Bernhardsson joins us on the podcast to chat about building engineering teams and the delicate balance between innovation and productivity as organizations grow.

Erik has been scaling engineering teams for years. In its early days, he managed the analytics and machine learning teams at Spotify. Next, he grew Better's engineering team from 0 to 300, where he was CTO until the beginning of 2021. Erik is now working on a yet-to-be-named project that will bring exciting new tools to data teams.

In this episode, we also shared our views on team mentalities, skunkworks projects, and more as we tried to answer the question: "what is success in engineering?"

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Remote Cultures & The Power of Storytelling with Michael Lopp, aka ”rands” Nov 30, 2021

Community creator and engineering leader at Apple, Michael Lopp (aka rands), joins Jason and Eiso to chat about the power of storytelling for engineering and the state of content for engineering leaders. The author of "Small Things Done Well" shares his opinions on video conferencing, distributed work, and how managers can create more authentic connections with remote teams.

Discover how writing can make you a better leader and the importance of explicit communication as we navigate the challenges of remote cultures in this fun-packed episode.

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The Episode You Should Send to Your CEO Nov 16, 2021

On our 10th episode of Developing Leadership, Eiso and Jason present a conversation dedicated to CEOs and everything they need to know about their engineering organization and leadership. From tech debt to dependency management and communication styles, understand engineering team's infrastructures, the timings and expectations of building product, and much more.

If you want to be a better CEO for a company that builds tech, this one is for you. If you're an Engineering Leader or work in Software Engineering, this episode has some excellent insights for you too.

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Building High-Performance Teams with Sam Lambert from PlanetScale Nov 02, 2021

On this episode of Developing Leadership, Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale and previously VP of Engineering at GitHub, joins us to talk about building high-performance teams. We chatted about leading with influence, advocating for your team, creating delightful hiring experiences, knowing when to fire people and how to keep your software engineers close to your end-users to build great products.

One of the biggest takeaways from this episode is that you have to start with yourself if you want to build a high-performance team. So if you're looking for pointers on how to be a better leader for your team and for your company, this episode is for you!

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A Deep Dive Into Engineering Leadership Roles, Part 3 Oct 19, 2021

Jason and Eiso wrap up their three-part series on Engineering Leadership roles by taking a deep dive into engineering managers and tech leads.

Learn how to hire your first engineering manager, whether to hire your engineering leaders from inside the company, and how the roles of tech leads change as your company grows. We also covered some communication techniques and how to design your teams as the company scales and communication lines increase.

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A Deep Dive Into Engineering Leadership Roles, Part 2 Oct 05, 2021

Jason and Eiso continue their deep dive on different engineering leadership roles, sharing their thoughts on CTOs, VPs, and Managers, how to hire for these roles, and adopting organizational structures that promote transparency and trust in the decision-making processes that shape your business.

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A Deep Dive Into Engineering Leadership Roles, Part 1 Sep 21, 2021

In this episode of Developing Leadership, we kick off our deep-dive series on different Engineering Leadership roles.

Jason and Eiso discuss how CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Engineering Managers should navigate through the various stages of their company. From prioritizing at different seed rounds to developing a go-to-market strategy, building their company’s architecture, and the day-to-day of each of these roles.

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Should Engineers be Masters of None? with Anton Drukh from Snyk Sep 07, 2021

Former GM of Snyk, Anton Drukh, recently became a mentor for VPs of Engineering and joined us on this week's episode to discuss his experiences leading a team split between two very different cultures. His journey as a leader working with teams in Israel and the UK is a lens into how diversity of mentalities can be an essential asset for tech companies and how it played a role in Snyk's success.

In this episode we spoke candidly about promotions, how teams evolve as companies shed their skin and grow, and the not so obvious career steps from engineer to engineering leader. The shift towards full-stack engineering is in motion. Can organizations rise to the occasion?

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Rethinking Your Role as a Leader with Emil Eifrem from Neo4j Aug 24, 2021

Neo4j just raised the biggest round in database history and their CEO, Emil Eifrem, joins us on the podcast to tell us about his experience transitioning from a day one CEO to running a company with more than 500 employees.

In this episode, Eiso and Jason start to scratch the surface on the importance of data and metrics for software engineering teams and how engineering leaders can use data to ask the right questions and help their companies to thrive.

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The Art of Making Good Decisions Aug 10, 2021

Jason and Eiso share the frameworks that have helped them navigate big and small decisions through the years and look back at how key decision-making moments shaped how they operate as leaders today.

Making good decisions is one of the pillars of exceptional leadership and a practice that can make or break an organization at any stage. Through company politics, difficult conversations, promoting employees, and raising equity, there are several approaches to staying grounded and keeping your team in sync as you navigate the turbulent tides of organizational change.

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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.co

The Growing Pains of Company Culture Jul 27, 2021

How do we make sure that we are deliberate about the culture of our organization and not find ourselves pushing for outcomes without care of how we achieve them?

Jason and Eiso go through the building blocks of positive company culture and explore how companies and leaders can adapt as their teams grow from two people in a garage to thousands of employees. From setting priorities to communicating effectively to operating in first-team mode, there are countless ways engineering leaders can make a difference for their companies. We explore them in this episode of Developing Leadership.

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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.co

A Changing Engineering Landscape Jul 07, 2021

In the first episode of Developing Leadership, Eiso Kant and Jason Warner talk about how the roles and perceptions of engineers and engineering leaders have changed over the decades. From the catastrophic offshoring trend of the early 2000s to the golden age of development, the tools, the processes and the culture shifts. Eiso and Jason share their experiences in the world of tech and the lessons that have stayed with them through the years.

Check out this episode's show notes at go.developingleadership.co/ep1

Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of software to metrics that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to https://athenian.co

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