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#110 - Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams - Roy Osherove Oct 24, 2022

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“As a team leader, you will become more successful and valuable if you are no longer a bottleneck for the people who are working with you and under you."

Roy Osherove is the author of “Elastic Leadership” and “The Art of Unit Testing”. In this episode, we discussed leadership insights from “Elastic Leadership”. Roy first shared how he came up with the concept and described what elastic leadership is. He explained the different leadership styles based on the 3 team phases (survival mode, learning mode, and self-organizing mode) and advised how leaders can adapt and transition their leadership style from one phase to the other to lead effectively. Roy also shared about the Team Leader manifesto and the Line Manager manifesto to provide guidance on how leaders can grow their teams towards self-organization and self-sufficiency.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:45]
Writing “Elastic Leadership” - [00:11:31]
Team Leader Manifesto - [00:17:57]
There Are No Experts - [00:23:23]
Survival Mode - [00:30:49]
Slack Time - [00:37:52]
Self-Organizing Mode - [00:39:21]
Learning Mode - [00:41:18]
Line Manager Manifesto - [00:45:47]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:48:13]

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Roy Osherove’s Bio
Roy Osherove is the organizer of the CD/XP Israel meetup group. He’s the author of “Art of Unit Testing”, “Elastic Leadership” and the upcoming “Co-Ops: Pipeline Driven Organizations”. He has been working in the software industry for over 20 years in most types of technical & testing roles, and these days is working as a freelance consultant & trainer on-site for various companies across the world.

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Twitter – @RoyOsherove
LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/osherove/
Website – https://osherove.com/
5 Whys – https://5whys.com/

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#109 - A Strengths-Based Approach to Leadership - Brandon Miller Oct 17, 2022

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“The most responsible thing a human can do, either personally for their own development or the development of others, is play to a person’s strengths."

Brandon Miller is the founder and CEO of 34 Strong and one of the first 7 certified Gallup Clifton StrengthsFinder coaches in the world. In this episode, we discussed Clifton StrengthsFinder, also known as CliftonStrengths. Brandon introduced what CliftonStrengths is and why it is important for us to recognize and focus on our strengths. He also shared when leaders apply a strengths-based approach at work, it leads to a much increased workplace engagement. Brandon then gave a walkthrough on how we can identify our strengths by taking the CliftonStrengths assessment and what we should do after we find out our strengths. Brandon also spent some time to discuss my top 3 strengths and explained the idea of complimentary partnerships. Towards the end, Brandon gave some tips for parents on how we can identify and nurture children’s core strengths since their childhood.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:46]
Starting Journey with StrengthsFinder - [00:08:35]
StrengthsFinder - [00:10:17]
Why Focus on Strengths - [00:15:06]
Increased Workplace Engagements - [00:19:41]
Tips for High Work Engagement - [00:23:56]
Doing StrengthsFinder Assessment - [00:26:59]
Henry’s Top 3 Strengths - [00:30:56]
Strengths-Based Leadership - [00:35:34]
Core Strengths - [00:38:53]
Nurturing Children’s Strengths - [00:41:18]
Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:44:46]

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Brandon Miller’s Bio
Brandon Miller is the founder and CEO of 34 Strong, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement. As one of the First 7 Certified GALLUP Clifton Strengths Finder, Brandon has nearly 15 years of experience providing leadership training, coaching, advising, and facilitating. Brandon is also passionate about parenting, having authored several books such as “Play to Their Strengths” and “Incredible Parent” and founded Co-Founder of Incredible Family, a consulting agency applying strengths-based approach to parenting.

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LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-miller-34strong
Email – brandon@34strong.com
34 Strong – https://www.34strong.com/

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#108 - Building the Future of Cloud Engineering With Pulumi - Joe Duffy Oct 10, 2022

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“Companies that are successful in getting the most out of the cloud embrace the fact that distributed application architecture is a first class application architecture concern."

Joe Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Pulumi. In this episode, we discussed cloud engineering concept and how Pulumi is helping to shape its future. Joe started by sharing his story founding Pulumi and the evolution of the cloud adoption. He shared his view on why cloud should be a first class application architecture concern and the concept of cloud as an operating system. Joe then shared in-depth the concept of cloud engineering as the next evolution of DevOps and explained how it changes the way we build, deploy, and manage infrastructure and application in the product development lifecycle. Towards the end, Joe shared his view on the future of cloud engineering and how Pulumi is helping organizations adopt cloud engineering at scale.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:18]
Founding Pulumi - [00:11:05]
Cloud as First Class Concern - [00:13:00]
Cloud Engineering - [00:17:27]
Build Phase - [00:23:02]
Deploy Phase - [00:29:48]
Manage Phase - [00:35:43]
Infrastructure as Software - [00:38:32]
Future of Cloud Engineering - [00:43:11]
Pulumi Customer Story - [00:44:52]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:46:30]

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Joe Duffy’s Bio
Joe Duffy is co-founder and CEO of Pulumi. Prior to founding Pulumi, Joe was a longtime leader in Microsoft’s Developer Division, Operating Systems Group, and Microsoft Research. Most recently, he was Director of Engineering and Technical Strategy for developer tools, where part of his responsibilities included managing the groups building the C#, C++, Visual Basic, and F# languages. Joe was instrumental in taking .NET open source and cross-platform. Joe founded Pulumi in 2018 with Eric Rudder, the former Chief Technical Strategy Officer at Microsoft.

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Twitter – @funcOfJoe
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/joejduffy/
Website – JoeDuffyBlog.com

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#107 - Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale - Zhamak Dehghani Oct 03, 2022

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“If you want to unlock the value of your data by generating data-driven values, and you want to do it reliably and resiliently at scale, then you need to consider data mesh."

Zhamak Dehghani is the author of the “Data Mesh” book. In this episode, we discussed in-depth about the data mesh, a concept she founded in 2018, which has then been becoming an industry trend. We started our conversation by discussing the current challenges working with data, such as the data centralization approach and why the current data tools are still inadequate. Zhamak then described data mesh and why organizations should adopt it to generate data-driven values at scale. Zhamak then explained the 4 principles of data mesh, which include domain ownership, data as a product, the self-serve data platform, and the federated computational governance.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:49]
Challenges Working with Data - [00:10:19]
Centralization of Data - [00:13:53]
Why Current Tools Not Adequate - [00:16:00]
Data Mesh & Its Drivers - [00:19:32]
Principle of Domain Ownership - [00:25:54]
Principle of Data as a Product - [00:35:57]
Principle of The Self-Serve Data Platform - [00:40:51]
Principle of Federated Computational Governance - [00:46:01]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:52:23]

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Zhamak Dehghani’s Bio
Zhamak Dehghani works as the CEO and founder of a stealth tech startup reimagining the future of data developer experience. She founded the concept of Data Mesh in 2018 and since has been implementing the concept and evangelizing it with the wider industry. She is the author of Architecture the Hard Parts and Data Mesh books.

Zhamak serves on multiple tech advisory boards. She has worked as a technologist for over 24 years and has contributed to multiple patents in distributed computing communications. She is an advocate for the decentralization of all things, including architecture, data, and ultimately power.

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Twitter – @zhamakd
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/zhamak-dehghani

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#106 - Company-wide Agility With BOSSA Nova - Jutta Eckstein Sep 26, 2022

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“There’s no leading without following. We are only a leader because somebody is following us."

Jutta Eckstein is a coach, consultant, and trainer who has helped many teams and organizations worldwide making an Agile transition. In this episode, we discussed ideas from her book “Company-wide Agility With Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy”, also widely known as the BOSSA nova. Jutta started by sharing today’s company challenge in terms of collision of values between shareholder, customer, and the employee, and she provided a suggestion how to align the values better. She then broke down BOSSA nova and explained each concept and principles of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy, and Agile. Jutta also shared the four values of BOSSA nova and how they also relate extrinsically to sustainability.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:24]
Writing BOSSA Nova - [00:08:34]
People-Customer-Shareholder Value - [00:12:04]
BOSSA Nova - [00:14:54]
Beyond Budgeting - [00:24:16]
Open Space - [00:32:56]
Sociocracy - [00:37:58]
Agile Values - [00:44:04]
Transparency - [00:49:50]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:52:22]

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Jutta Eckstein’s Bio
Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition, especially with medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.

Follow Jutta:

Website – https://jeckstein.com/
Twitter – @JuttaEckstein
LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein

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DevTernity 2022 (devternity.com) is the top international software development conference with an emphasis on coding, architecture, and tech leadership skills. The lineup is truly stellar and features many legends of software development like Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Kent Beck, Scott Hanselman, Venkat Subramaniam, Kevlin Henney, and many others! The conference takes place online, and we have the 10% discount code for you: AWSM_TLJ.

#105 - Coaching for Technical Leaders - Bob Galen Sep 19, 2022

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“If you want to become a better and more effective leader, then one of your core skills should be coaching skills."

Bob Galen is the President & Principal Agile Coach at RGCG and a prolific writer, blogger, and podcaster. In this episode, Bob and I discussed coaching and leadership from his latest book “Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching”. Bob started by explaining the concepts of agile leadership and agile coaching. He shared about the different coaching stances and why he suggests that coaching is an essential core leadership skill. Bob then went into details to describe the skills to become a good coach, such as asking powerful questions and becoming powerful listeners. Towards the end, Bob shared some tips for coaching up and coaching the middle managers, i.e. coaching the coaches.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:39]
Agile Leader - [00:09:17]
Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching - [00:12:35]
Definition of Coaching - [00:15:31]
Coaching as a Leadership Skill - [00:19:44]
Skills to Become a Good Coach - [00:24:00]
Powerful Questions - [00:27:59]
Powerful Listening - [00:33:37]
When to Give Solutions - [00:38:54]
Coaching Up - [00:43:30]
Coaching Middle Managers - [00:48:06]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:51:47]

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Bob Galen’s Bio
Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role, he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other Agile methods and practices. He is currently President & Principal Consultant at RGCG, LLC.

Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to software development, project management, software testing and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile & Scrum Alliances.

He’s published 3 agile related books: Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching, Scrum Product Ownership, and Agile Reflections. He’s also a prolific writer, blogger, and podcaster.

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LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen
Twitter – @bobgalen
Personal Website – www.rgalen.com
Website – www.agile-moose.com
Meta-Cast Podcast – www.meta-cast.com

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DevTernity 2022 (devternity.com) is the top international software development conference with an emphasis on coding, architecture, and tech leadership skills. The lineup is truly stellar and features many legends of software development like Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Kent Beck, Scott Hanselman, Venkat Subramaniam, Kevlin Henney, and many others! The conference takes place online, and we have the 10% discount code for you: AWSM_TLJ.

#104 - Growing Through Experimentation - Lisi Hocke Sep 12, 2022

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“The most important part about building an experiment-driven culture is to make it safe to fail and to fail in good ways."

Lisi Hocke is an active figure in the global testing community. In this episode, Lisi shared her lessons learned growing an experiment-driven quality culture in her recent years. Lisi shared why it is important to have an experimentation mindset before we adopt something new or any good practices and to have a safe environment to execute those experiments. Lisi shared her advice on how to run an experiment, from building transparency, creating hypothesis, getting buy-in, and understanding our biases, in particular the sunk cost fallacy. In the latter half, Lisi shared her personal transformation journey learning in public and shared her tips on growing technical confidence.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:05:59]
Sharing About Building Quality Culture - [00:13:39]
Experiment-Driven Culture - [00:21:14]
Building Transparency - [00:25:41]
Hypothesis - [00:28:08]
Building Better Hypothesis - [00:29:58]
Getting Buy-In - [00:33:38]
Sunk Cost Fallacy - [00:37:44]
Learning in Public - [00:41:42]
Growing Technical Confidence - [00:47:37]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:53:12]

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Lisi Hocke’s Bio
Lisi found tech as her place to be in 2009 and grew as a specialized generalist ever since. She’s passionate about the whole-team approach to holistic testing and quality and enjoys experimenting and learning continuously. Building great products which deliver value together with great people motivates her and lets her thrive. Having received a lot from communities, she’s paying it forward by sharing her stories and learning in public. In her free time, she plays indoor volleyball or delves into computer games and stories of all kinds.

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Twitter – @lisihocke
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisihocke/
Website – https://www.lisihocke.com/

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The iSAQB® Software Architecture Gathering is the international conference highlight for all those working on solution structures in IT projects: primarily software architects, developers and professionals in quality assurance, but also system analysts who want to communicate better with their developers. A selection of well-known international experts will share their practical knowledge on the most important topics in state-of-the-art software architecture. The conference takes place online from November 14 to 17, 2022, and we have a 15% discount code for you: TLJ_MP_15.

DevTernity 2022 (devternity.com) is the top international software development conference with an emphasis on coding, architecture, and tech leadership skills. The lineup is truly stellar and features many legends of software development like Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Kent Beck, Scott Hanselman, Venkat Subramaniam, Kevlin Henney, and many others! The conference takes place online, and we have the 10% discount code for you: AWSM_TLJ.

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#103 - Software Development Pearls - Karl Wiegers Sep 05, 2022

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“A way to boost productivity is to create high-quality software from the outset, so that teams can spend less time on rework, both during development and after the release."

Karl Wiegers is the author of “Software Development Pearls” and the Principal Consultant at Process Impact. In this episode, Karl shared some lessons he has learned over the past five decades of his career. We first discussed software requirement, its role for communication, and the importance of defining the right requirements. Karl then touched on the reasons we can’t optimize all desirable quality attributes and instead advised how we should define the quality attribute requirements. Next, Karl shared some project management pearls, related to work planning and dealing with estimates. Towards the end, Karl explained the relation between quality and productivity, using pain as a driver for improvement, and his ultimate pearl of wisdom.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:05:46]
Requirements for Communication - [00:08:07]
Importance of the Right Requirements - [00:13:49]
Importance of Definitions - [00:16:23]
Optimizing Quality Attributes - [00:18:48]
Specifying Quality Attribute Requirements - [00:21:59]
Work Plans & Friction - [00:24:48]
Giving Estimates - [00:31:03]
Pressure to Making Commitment - [00:35:19]
High Quality & Productivity - [00:39:38]
Pain as Improvement Driver - [00:45:16]
Ultimate Pearl - [00:50:25]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:54:09]

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Karl Wiegers’s Bio
Karl Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software development consulting and training company. He has a PhD in organic chemistry. Karl is the author of 13 books, including Software Development Pearls, Software Requirements, The Thoughtless Design of Everyday Things, Successful Business Analysis Consulting, and a forensic mystery novel titled The Reconstruction. You can reach him at ProcessImpact.com or KarlWiegers.com, where you can hear more than 50 songs he has recorded just for fun, including 18 originals that he wrote.

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LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlwiegers
Website – https://karlwiegers.com
Process Impact – https://www.processimpact.com
Medium – https://karlwiegers.medium.com

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#102 - Building Inspired & Empowered Product Teams - Marty Cagan Aug 29, 2022

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“Instead of being given a roadmap of features, an empowered team is given a problem to solve and they get to figure out the best way to solve that problem."

Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group and the author of “Inspired” and “Empowered”. In this episode, we discussed how companies ought to build great products by learning from the best product companies. Marty explained the importance of building the right product and shared the two inconvenient truths about building products. Marty then elaborated on the traits a good product team has and how to create an empowered product team by ensuring ownership and alignment and by having clear product vision, strategy, and focus. Towards the end, Marty shared the importance of coaching and nurturing people, how to hire better, and how to structure product team topologies.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:05:48]
Writing Inspired & Empowered - [00:11:38]
Building the Right Product - [00:16:23]
Two Inconvenient Truths - [00:17:45]
Traits of Good Product Teams - [00:22:06]
Engineering Involvement - [00:24:53]
Empowered - [00:26:44]
Ownership & Alignment - [00:28:41]
Product Vision & Strategy - [00:33:00]
Focus - [00:35:39]
Coaching & Nurturing People - [00:39:40]
Hiring - [00:41:56]
How to Structure Teams - [00:43:49]
4 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:46:55]

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Marty Cagan’s Bio
Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including HP Labs, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Marty is also the author of the books INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love and EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.

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Website – https://www.svpg.com/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan
Twitter – @cagan

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#101 - My Engineering Leadership Story & 100 Episodes Reflection - Henry Suryawirawan Aug 22, 2022

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“As a servant leader, your number one job is to serve the people around you. You succeed together with your people, and that’s why serving them first would give you the best opportunity to succeed together."

Henry Suryawirawan is the host of your beloved podcast. In this episode, hosted by Jerome Poudevigne, we uncovered lessons from Henry’s career journey and from running the Tech Lead Journal podcast. Henry shared his career turning points that included multiple transitions between individual contributor (IC) and management, being part of retrenchment, working in a failed startup, and his decision to leave Google and join a scaleup. Henry then shared how he prepared and grew himself into his current leadership position by being a problem solver, exercising the servant leadership mindset, building culture intentionally, and a few tips on doing remote work effectively. In the second half of the conversation, Henry shared why and how he first started the Tech Lead Journal podcast, as well as sharing moments and lessons he learned from releasing 100 episodes in the last 2 years.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:10]
Career Planning & Progression - [00:09:40]
Leaving Google - [00:13:34]
Taking a Plunge to Leadership - [00:16:14]
Servant Leadership & Difficult Conversation - [00:18:07]
Preparing & Growing Leadership - [00:21:07]
Building Culture - [00:26:29]
Tips for Remote Working - [00:31:08]
Career Failures - [00:37:08]
Starting a Podcast - [00:38:51]
Finding Guests - [00:42:17]
Learnings From the Podcast - [00:44:02]
Nervous Moments - [00:46:39]
Relationships With the Guests - [00:47:35]
Personal Learning - [00:49:21]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:52:15]
Credits - [00:59:13]

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Henry Suryawirawan’s Bio
Henry Suryawirawan is an experienced engineering leader and an avid personal growth learner. He is the host of Tech Lead Journal, a podcast about technical leadership and excellence.

Follow Henry:

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-suryawirawan
Twitter – @henry_ken
Tech Lead Journal – https://techleadjournal.dev
Website – https://henrysuryawirawan.com

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