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33. Seth Engelhard on being the head of engineering
Seth Engelhard has worked at some of the more interesting companies in the world: GitLab, Netlify, New Relic, and now Observable. He goes into a lot of detail about what practices he learned from…
32. Matt Otis on training that works
Matt Otis has spent his career around building effective training programs. Training is one of the most important aspects of building a successful organization, but it's often not well understood.…
31. Diana Larsen on retros, team liftoffs, agile fluency, and more
Diana was a delightful and insightful guest. She is a well-known expert on agile retrospectives, team liftoffs, agile fluency, and building resilient learning teams. She's probably the best in the…
30. Elaine May on making change and the dangers of SCRUM
Elaine May joined Decoding Leadership for a conversation on how to effectively make change as a leader. Elaine was an early agile practitioner, using it in very non-agile environments! She wrote…
29. Charity Majors on building organizations you can believe in
Charity and I had a very personal discussion about the tremendous growth you can make personally as a leader, and the meaning you can derive from having an impact on the lives of the people around…
28. Lena Reinhard on making space for leadership that matters
Lena shares insights on making space for leadership work, addressing the issues leaders face, and strategies for more thoughtful and rewarding leadership. With experience as a CEO, startup founder,…
27. Beth Adele Long on reliability and leadership
I sit down with Beth Long to discuss her extensive experience with reliability engineering from working at companies like New Relic, Jeli, Gruntwork, and Adaptive Capacity Labs. Beth shares her…
26. Jade Rubick on reflecting power
Reflected Power is a way to use power you don’t have. Join me as I introduce the concept of Reflected Power. Reflected Power is using the authority of those above you to amplify your influence and…
25. Molly Graham on Google to Glue
I had the opportunity to interview Molly Graham, who has an impressive background working at Google, Facebook, and Quip, among other places. In 2022, she founded Glue Club, a community for startup…
24. Brent Miller on team health assessments
In today's episode, we dive into the fascinating world of team health assessments with Brent Miller. Brent, who held the title of organizational architect and worked as a principal engineer at New…
23. Jim Gochee on banning "prioritization", and getting functions to work together
In this episode of Decoding Leadership, host Jade interviews Jim Gochee, a seasoned expert in the software industry with a rich career spanning roles from engineer to CEO. They cover the…
22. James Shore: what if we scaled our teams to unreasonable sizes?
Jim and I sit down and talk about his successful engagement at New Relic, where he brought modern autonomous team approaches the company. Jim shares how he has been doing it differently over the last…
21. Jayanthan Bhattathiripad on introducing yourself, XP and Scrum, and waste
In this episode, we talk with Jayanthan Bhattatharapad. Jay has a very interesting way of introducing himself to his teams and organization, and I asked him to demo it to us. In doing so, he shares…
20. Margaret Le on technical leadership and building strong engineering cultures
Join us as we welcome Margaret Le, VP of Engineering at Facet, to discuss her experience from software engineering leadership roles at New Relic, Heroku, Slack, and Facet. We dive deep into the…
19. Jade Rubick: using task forces to solve complex leadership challenges
In this episode, we delve into the concept of task forces and their crucial role in addressing organizational challenges. Discover when and how to employ task forces effectively, and learn from…
18. Brent Miller on team self-selection and project Upscale
Upscale was a large scale agile transformation at a 50 team software company. Brent and I were on the leadership team. The aim of Upscale was to address the gridlock problem with cross-team projects.…
17. Katie Wilde on the challenging step to director, and the perverse incentives of reliability
Katie Wilde is an accomplished leader from Snyk, Ambassador Labs, and Buffer. She shares how she learned to be an effective director (and how challenging the transition was), and shares tons of…
16. Jade Rubick on Tiny Thursdays
We often don't prioritize the tiny things that make exceptional products. I share a practice we adopted recently that helps us ship lots of little things every Thursday.
15. Ben Gahlsdorf on partnering with recruiting, advice for job seekers, and a recommendation mindset
Ben is an experienced talent acquisition leader. We discussed how leaders can work effectively with recruiting, how he coaches recruiters to work better with their stakeholders, how to stand out in…
14. Alex Kroman on building strong leadership teams, product taste, and neurodivergent mode
I loved this conversation with Alex Kroman, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LivePerson. We dive into the topic of how to craft great leadership teams, balancing vision with execution,…
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