Podcasts

New Approaches to Engineer Onboarding with Kristen Buchanan

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kristen Buchanan about new approaches to engineer onboarding and reducing time to productivity for new hires.

Agile Retrospectives Making Good Teams Even Better

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Diana Larsen, Esther Derby and David Horowitz about the new edition of the book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Team Great.

Building a Great Engineering Culture and Being a Genuinely Purpose-Driven Organisation

In this double-episode podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, first spoke to Mark Rees, CTO of Xero about creating a great engineering culture in a fast growing Unicorn company. He then spoke to Heather DeSantis of Publicity for Good about what it takes to be a truly purpose-driven organisation.

Jason Thane on Building a Values Based Culture

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Jason Thane of GenUI about building a company on a values-based culture, how software development is fundamentally about communication and collaboration and advice on interviewing for values fit.

Robin Hills on Emotional Intelligence and Building on Your Strengths

Shane Hastie spoke to Robin Hills about the importance of emotional intelligence in life and at work, building on your strengths rather than focusing on weaknesses, and the value of purpose to enable resilience.