Podcasts

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.

Pato Jutard of Mural on Maintaining a Collaborative Culture through Exponential Growth

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Pato Jutard, CTO of Mural, about the challenges of maintaining a collaborative culture as they have grown from under 100 people to over 450 through the pandemic.

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.

Anders Wallgren of Cloudbees on the Human Side of Software Delivery Management

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Anders Wallgren of CloudBees about the human side of software development, ways to improve collaboration and why the future is in features.